US Patent: 148,656
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| Devices for Ringing Swine
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Patentee:
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| Elias Blair (exact or similar names) - Bucyrus, OH |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Feb. 07, 1874 |
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Mar. 17, 1874 |
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Elias Blair patent March 17, 1874 |
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Description: |
| "The object of my invention is construct an instrument ... which will insert large and small rings, and which will also serve as a nut-cracker and a cork-compressor.."
The grooves in the jaws are for hog rings; the teeth are to hold nuts.
Blair's Ringers and Rings were still shown in hardware wholesale catalogs in the mid-20th Century. See patent no. 156,125 for a different Blair hog ring pliers & the ring.
An 1881 "History of Crawford County" noted Blair was producing 60,000 hog rings per day. |
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