US Patent: 5,698X
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Self Moving Cradle
Cradle, Called the Self Moving Cradle
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Patentee:
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| Anthony Buchenberger (Buchenderger) (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Nov. 03, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
"A common swinging cradle is to be made to vibrate by a spring movement, like that of a time-piece, which is to be let into one of the uprights, and of this movement the cradle becomes the pendulum. The claim is to "the method of working a cradle, and the adaptation of the movement above described."
In the days when cradles were as numerous as infants, and swaddling bands and chin stays were accounted necessary to preserve the juxta position of the joints, it was frequently proposed to rock the child to sleep by clock work, and we have little doubt that it has actually and repeatedly been carried into practice; at all events, the proposition of the matrons and the nurses is now to be realized, and our children are to be made to sleep against time, provided their parents consent to it. We are very apprehensive, however, that the determined departure of the moderns, from the usages of primitive times, will interfere with the patent mode of inducing sleep, and prevent its becoming a profitable concern."
Journal of the Franklin Institute, V5, Oct., 1830, pg. 126 |
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