US Patent: 313,294 
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| Log-crib
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	        Patentees:
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 | Columbus C. Barker (exact or similar names) - Bay City, MI |  
| Thomas Craney (exact or similar names) - Bay City, MI |  
 
 
 
 
 
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| Not known to have been produced |  
 
 
 
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        Patent Dates:
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| Applied: | 
Dec. 10, 1884 | 
 
| Granted: | 
Mar. 03, 1885 | 
 
 
 
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                        Jeff Joslin 
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        Description: |  
| Where logs were normally moved in water by chaining them together into rafts, this invention proposes loading the logs onto a permanent "raft-crib" made of timbers bolted together into a two-layer arrangement, the logs in the two layers at right angles to one another. |  
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