USRE56E - Improvement in the manner or art of manufacturing scythes - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GYRUS THURSTON, OF FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS, ADMINISTRATOR OF AUGUSTUS H. SEARLE.

l IMPROVEMENT lN THE MANNER 0R ART 0F MANUFACTURING SCYTHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent dated December 17, 1834; Reissue No. 56, dated October 12, 1843.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that AUGUSTUS H. SEARLE, late of Chelmsford, in the county of Middleex and State of Massachusetts, now deceased,

n the year 1834, or Shortly before that time, invented and brought into use an improvement in the form and construction of scythes by raising and giving them asecond back, for which improvement said SEARLE obtained Letters Patent dated the U th day of December, 1834, and while in. full life, which Letters Patent are deemed defective by reason of defects and mistakes found in the Specification annexed to and making part of said Letters Patent, and to correct which mistakes and remedy said defects this new and amended Specification has been made by me, CYRUS THURS- 'roN, the administrator on Said AUGUSTUS H. SEARLES estate, upon which, and the surrender of the aforesaid Letters Patent granted to said SEARLE, new Letters Patent may be obtained for the benefit of all concerned.

The invention and improvement for which said Letters Patent were granted, and whichA was intended to have been fully and correctly described and claimed, consists in raising a ridge or second back on the upper surface of the web or plate of the scythe near to and parallel with the first back, and running from the heel to the commencement of the point of the Scythe, with a like ridge on the under side of the Scythe, formed by the crease or indentation on the upper side made by the dies when givingform to'this improvement. (See the drawings hereto annexed, marked and lettered.)

The mode used by said SEARLE for forming saidsecond back and making said improvement consisted in the used of said dies so placed in hammers moved by hand or any other power as to make the proper lines and indentations, so as to raise and form Said Second back in the common method known to artists for giving form and shape to any metal to which they are applied.

Itis not intended to claim as any part of this invention or improvement made by said Administrator of the estate ofAugustus H. Seare,

deceased.

In presence of- NATHL. WOOD, GEO. S. MESSINGER.

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