US Patent: 1,817,036
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Rate change device
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Patentees:
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Edward J. Kearney (exact or similar names) - Wauwatosa, WI |
Robert S. Condon (exact or similar names) - Milwaukee, WI |
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Patent Dates:
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Applied: |
Mar. 21, 1927 |
Granted: |
Aug. 04, 1931 |
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Jeff Joslin Vintage Machinery entry for Kearney & Trecker Corp.
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Description: |
"A purpose of the invention is to provide a device productive of a series of rate changes from the movement of a single lever, together with means indicating the particular rate corresponding with any given lever position... the invention has been shown in connection with a machine tool of the type generally known as a knee and column type milling machine."By the time this patent was issued, co-inventor Robert Scofield Condon had left Kearney & Trecker to work for the Gleason Gear Works in Rochester. His timing was poor: when he made the move in 1929, he was one of 80 engineers at Gleason, but by 1934 he was one of two. |
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