US Patent: 5,018X
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Cast Steel Scythes and Shovels, &c.
Manufacturing of Shovels of Cast Steel and Iron, or of any other Steel and Iron, by Welding and Rolling the Steel and Iron together
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Patentees:
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| Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of C. Bulkley (exact or similar names) - Colchester, New London County, CT |
| Chauncey Bulkley, deceased (Estate of) (exact or similar names) - Colchester, CT |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Feb. 28, 1828 |
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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.
The two preceding patents (this one and NX-182,802,281) were granted in pursuance of a special act of congress, passed on the 18th of February, 1828. The petition upon which this act was founded, set forth that Chauncey Bulkley had, during his life time, been the inventor of several valuable machines, of the benefits of which he had been deprived, by his generous, but misplaced confidence in others; that he had exhausted his own resources in bringing these inventions to perfection, and had at length been removed by death, leaving his family in a destitute condition, and unable, therefore, to obtain patents for the two preceding improvements.
"Take a bar of iron of sufficient width, when rolled, for the length of a shovel or spade, scarp or slope down one side of the bar. Then take a bar of cast, or any other steel, about an inch square; draw it some, and scarp or slope down one edge; weld it on the face of the bar of iron on the side of the bar that is scarped or sloped down; heat it in a furnace, run it through a common rolling mill, until sufficiently thin for a shovel or spade. Cut up the plate crosswise, of a suitable width for a shovel or spade; shape the shovel or spade in cast-iron dies; make the shank of the shovel or spade of two pieces of rolled iron; rivet them on each side of the shovel or spade, with the handle in the middle. The shovel or spade to be ground and polished."
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 5, Aug. 1829 pg. 133
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