Posted by MarkOue on July 8, 2008, 7:55 pm, in reply to "Syracuse Patents"
The source of the March 29, 1883 patent is documented on page 10 of THE LEGEND LIVES. Paragraph one states: " Alex Brown received Patent Number 274,435 on March 29, 1883 for the rotary bolting mechanism,..." See this at http://www.google.com/patents?id=uaRAAAAAEBAJ&dq=274435&jtp=1 The patent itself lists the Issue Date of March 20, 1889. Perhap the patent was in fact issued on March 20, 1889 but it was "received" by Alex Brown at Syracuse on March 29, 1889? Certainly the late author would have known...