Jim Barker Patent Database

Patent #: 450

Author(s): Francis Good

Date Issued: November 4, 1837

Location:
Town: New London twp.
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
small bridge, wood superstructure bolted to abutment's footing

Classifications:
Prime: 73
2nd: 76
3rd: 62/345

Database ID Number: 2

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Patent #: 1192

Author(s): Henry Wilton

Date Issued: June 24, 1839

Location:
Town: Wrightsville
County: York
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Town lattice with arches, and vert rods keyed to both

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 3

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Patent #: 1397

Author(s): Stephen H Long

Date Issued: November 7, 1839

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: 'US Army'
State: Not Listed

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, "Pratt" with diags in tension, driven wedges atop verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 4

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Patent #: 1398

Author(s): Stephen H. Long

Date Issued: November 7, 1839

Location:
Town: US Engineers
County: "US Army"
State: Not Listed

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Long Truss, inclined braces below ends, clip (gib) & wedge (key) conn

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 2

Database ID Number: 5

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Patent #: 1445

Author(s): Herman Haupt

Date Issued: December 27, 1839

Location:
Town: York
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lattice truss, "improved", no counterbraces, & ties perpendicular to chords

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 6

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Patent #: 1551

Author(s): J. N. Vrooman

Date Issued: April 15, 1840

Location:
Town: Danube
County: Herkimer
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge that swings open, rigging to do so, especially for canals

Classifications:
Prime: 30

Database ID Number: 7

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Patent #: 1634

Author(s): Col John F. Lane

Date Issued: June 17, 1840

Location:
Town: (deceased)
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon bridge using coated fabric floats

Classifications:
Prime: 27

Database ID Number: 8

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Patent #: 1685

Author(s): William Howe

Date Issued: July 10, 1840

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Worcester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trusses with central arch, wedges used extensively to camber

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 9

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Patent #: 1711

Author(s): William Howe

Date Issued: August 3, 1840

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Worcester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, words describe a classic Howe, but dwg shows an oddity

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 10

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Patent #: 1994

Author(s): Jehu Price and James T. Phillips

Date Issued: February 23, 1841

Location:
Town: Golden P.O.
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, by clever notching & design, timbers lock each other like wood puzzle

Classifications:
Prime: 52/695

Database ID Number: 11

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Patent #: 2064

Author(s): Squire Whipple

Date Issued: April 24, 1841

Location:
Town: Utica
County: Oneida
State: NY

General Category or Bridge Type:
Metal Truss Bowstring

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring truss, the Whipple bowstring patent

Comments By Nathan Holth, Bridge Historian
This bridge type is sometimes called a Whipple Arch.

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14
3rd: 15
4th: 26

Database ID Number: 12

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Patent #: 2164

Author(s): Earl Trumbull

Date Issued: July 10, 1841

Location:
Town: Little Falls
County: Herkimer
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss using precast iron panels

Classifications:
Prime: 11
2nd: 74/424.7
3rd: 256/72

Database ID Number: 13

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Patent #: 2334

Author(s): Albert Cottrell

Date Issued: November 10, 1841

Location:
Town: Newport
County: Not Listed
State: RI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever truss, building from both abutmts, balaced by counterweights

Classifications:
Prime: 7

Database ID Number: 14

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Patent #: 2347

Author(s): Isaiah Rogers

Date Issued: November 10, 1841

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
spiral-braced cylinder bridge enclosing 2nd truss w/ vertical sides using hoops

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 15

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Patent #: 2478

Author(s): Harvey Leach

Date Issued: March 4, 1842

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge of suspension bridge form, for RR

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 16

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Patent #: 2769

Author(s): T. Burr

Date Issued: April 3, 1817

Location:
Town: Burr Haven
County: 2nd source->
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, the Burr-Arch patent. TEXT is missing

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 17

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Patent #: 3095

Author(s): J. R. Remington

Date Issued: May 19, 1843

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: Lowndes
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever, strengthen a simple-span beam by fixing or tying down its ends

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 18

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Patent #: 3169

Author(s): Itheiel Town

Date Issued: January 28, 1820

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: not given
State: Not Listed

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Town lattice patent

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 19

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Patent #: 3523

Author(s): Thomas W. Pratt and Caleb Pratt

Date Issued: April 4, 1844

Location:
Town: Norwich
County: Not Listed
State: CT

General Category or Bridge Type:
Truss

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, "Pratt", adjustable tension diags & counters in ea. panel

Comments By Nathan Holth, Bridge Historian
This is the original Pratt truss patent.

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 20

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Patent #: 4004

Author(s): G. W. Thayer

Date Issued: April 22, 1845

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, iron rods to resist thrust of diags against verticals & other braces

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 21

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Patent #: 4030

Author(s): I. W. P. Lewis

Date Issued: May 1, 1845

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, circular, of wrought & cast iron pieces, rubble fill

Classifications:
Prime: 405/233
2nd: 75

Database ID Number: 22

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Patent #: 4287

Author(s): Nathaniel Rider

Date Issued: November 26, 1845

Location:
Town: Southbridge
County: Worchester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, cambering by driving wedges in top chord, tension rod below bot. chord

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 23

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Patent #: 4359

Author(s): Thomas Hassard

Date Issued: January 15, 1846

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood truss, allowing wedges to tighten diags. Truss bit like a McCallum

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 24

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Patent #: 4693

Author(s): Horace Childs

Date Issued: August 12, 1846

Location:
Town: Hennicker
County: Merrimack
State: NH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, Howe with tensionable, iron-rod counters, wood verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 25

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Patent #: 4694

Author(s): Frederick Harbach

Date Issued: August 12, 1846

Location:
Town: Pittsfield
County: Berkshire
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Howe all members = iron tubes, diags & verts can act in tension & compr.

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 26

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Patent #: 4710

Author(s): John A. Roebling

Date Issued: August 26, 1846

Location:
Town: Pittsburgh
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., anchorage for, use timbers to spread cable load & avoid cracking stone

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 56/203

Database ID Number: 27

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Patent #: 4726

Author(s): William Howe

Date Issued: August 28, 1846

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Hampden
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, traditional "Howe" plus central arch, iron shoes for diags & verts

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 28

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Patent #: 4756

Author(s): G. Wilkinson

Date Issued: May 15, 1827

Location:
Town: ?
County: Not Listed
State: ?

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, draw bridge, wooden, movable span retracts into side span no Text

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 29

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Patent #: 4837

Author(s): Lowman Gay

Date Issued: November 4, 1846

Location:
Town: Chili
County: Monroe
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, shallow trussed arch, diags don't meet verts at common panel pt.

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 428/907

Database ID Number: 30

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Patent #: 4945

Author(s): John A. Roebling

Date Issued: January 26, 1847

Location:
Town: Pittsburgh
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., classic traveling wheel to place strands of main cables

Classifications:
Prime: 23
2nd: 241/278.1

Database ID Number: 31

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Patent #: 5297

Author(s): S. F. Gassaway

Date Issued: September 18, 1847

Location:
Town: Marietta
County: Cobb
State: GA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., inverted A-frame shape "deck" br, w/ tension chains connected at piers

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 32

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Patent #: 5366

Author(s): Stephan H Long

Date Issued: November 13, 1847

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, drive wedges between verts & diags to prestress & camber, extra diags

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 33

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Patent #: 5760

Author(s): Louis Wernwag

Date Issued: December 22, 1829

Location:
Town: <-- 2nd source
County: Jefferson
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Wernwag's great patent TEXT is missing

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 34

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Patent #: 5862

Author(s): S. H. Long

Date Issued: March 6, 1830

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: 2nd source->
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Long Truss patent address = "Top' Engr Lt. Col."

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 35

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Patent #: 5997

Author(s): Joseph Ross

Date Issued: January 2, 1849

Location:
Town: Ipswich
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, swing br., pivoted at 1 abut & swings to 1 side, tower & cables support it

Classifications:
Prime: 32

Database ID Number: 36

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Patent #: 6126

Author(s): J. Dutton Steele

Date Issued: February 20, 1849

Location:
Town: Pottstown
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Howe w/ wood verts +arches, can shorten verts to camber br, arch-vert conn

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 37

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Patent #: 6230

Author(s): James Barnes

Date Issued: March 27, 1849

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, elliptical (lenticular)

Classifications:
Prime: 12

Database ID Number: 38

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Patent #: 7060

Author(s): L. H. Potts

Date Issued: January 29, 1850

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, some basic parameters of

Classifications:
Prime: 405/224
2nd: 175/9
3rd: 175/86

Database ID Number: 39

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Patent #: 7305

Author(s): Henry Lanergan

Date Issued: April 23, 1850

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, three-arch truss, middle arch supported by others (not good)

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 40

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Patent #: 7374

Author(s): John Bevan

Date Issued: May 21, 1850

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, adjustable tie passes around rollers at end and over arch, no diags

Classifications:
Prime: 10

Database ID Number: 41

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Patent #: 7621

Author(s): Augustus Canfield

Date Issued: June 29, 1833

Location:
Town: Paterson
County: 2nd source->
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, cantilevered from ea abutment, chords are rods

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 42

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Patent #: 7890

Author(s): C. M. Pennington

Date Issued: January 7, 1851

Location:
Town: Rome
County: Floyd
State: GA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arches + truss, wood, like a Burr Arch? but complex & very wild arches

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 11
3rd: 12

Database ID Number: 43

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Patent #: 7994

Author(s): J. Snyder

Date Issued: February 3, 1834

Location:
Town: <-- 2nd source
County: Union
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, like Burr, but 2 trusses sandwich 1 arch, fanned verts & no diags, no TEXT

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 44

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Patent #: 8224

Author(s): D. C. McCallum

Date Issued: July 15, 1851

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, McCallum, claims adjust-length counters to prestress, potshots at Long's

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 45

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Patent #: 8337

Author(s): Edwin Stanley

Date Issued: September 2, 1851

Location:
Town: Bennington
County: Wyoming
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular, combination, with horizontal arches for lateral bracing

Classifications:
Prime: 12

Database ID Number: 46

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Patent #: 8624

Author(s): Wendel Bollman

Date Issued: January 6, 1852

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

General Category or Bridge Type:
Truss

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Bollman Truss patent

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 47

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Patent #: 8713

Author(s): Ammi White

Date Issued: February 3, 1852

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br, wood, covered bridge w/ wood susp arc + wood arch, diag siding = truss

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 24
3rd: 144/146
4th: 30/189

Database ID Number: 48

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Patent #: 8743

Author(s): Itheiel Town

Date Issued: April 3, 1835

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Town lattice, heavier design with extra series of diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 49

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Patent #: 9090

Author(s): Abel Bradway and Elijah Valentine

Date Issued: July 6, 1852

Location:
Town: Monson
County: Hampden
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Howe, chords=horiz planks, iron-rod counters & to clamp wood verts

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 50

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Patent #: 9093

Author(s): J. B. Gridley

Date Issued: July 6, 1852

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, much like a "K-truss"

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 126/1AE

Database ID Number: 51

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Patent #: 9113

Author(s): J. P. Duffey

Date Issued: July 13, 1852

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, rectang. internal-braced prefab iron coffer, more suitable for levee than br

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 52

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Patent #: 9172

Author(s): Richard Witty

Date Issued: October 14, 1835

Location:
Town: Lowell
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, reinf. w/ inverted king post where tie rod is curved to support several places

Classifications:

Database ID Number: 53

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Patent #: 9340

Author(s): Stephen H. Long

Date Issued: January 23, 1836

Location:
Town: Eng."
County: Topograph
State: "Lt Col

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
lateral bracing for timber bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 54

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Patent #: 9842

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: July 12, 1853

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam from cold-rolled sheet metal, has W shape, stiffeners for ends

Classifications:
Prime: 52/737.1
2nd: 52/262

Database ID Number: 55

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Patent #: 10250

Author(s): Samuel Champion and Thomas Champion

Date Issued: November 22, 1853

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr method : build br. on shore, put on end on a barge & haul across stream

Classifications:
Prime: 43
2nd: 69.5

Database ID Number: 56

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Patent #: 10765

Author(s): G. W. Thayer

Date Issued: April 11, 1854

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, many overlapping semi-circles but no top chord !

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 57

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Patent #: 10887

Author(s): Albert Fink

Date Issued: May 9, 1854

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Fink Truss patent

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 6

Database ID Number: 58

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Patent #: 11322

Author(s): Samuel Champion and Thomas Champion

Date Issued: July 18, 1854

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable-stayed, looks like an early cable-stayed design

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 13

Database ID Number: 59

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Patent #: 11467

Author(s): E. A. Baldwin

Date Issued: August 8, 1854

Location:
Town: Elmira
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tubular bridge using longitudinal wood planks & giant iron barrel hoops

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 60

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Patent #: 11818

Author(s): John Yandell and Joseph H. Johnson

Date Issued: October 17, 1854

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
a "tension tress work" br., truss chords are cables, cable-stay help at midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 61

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Patent #: 13461

Author(s): Horace L. Hervey and Robert E. Osborn

Date Issued: August 21, 1855

Location:
Town: Quincy
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss strengthened by susp cable, adjustable many places to move load around

Classifications:
Prime: 11
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 62

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Patent #: 13599

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: September 25, 1855

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam made from variable thickness metal sheet, cold-rolled into "W" shape

Classifications:
Prime: 52/737.1
2nd: 74.5

Database ID Number: 63

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Patent #: 14313

Author(s): Peter C. Guiou

Date Issued: February 26, 1856

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron & wood arch, odd almost horiz. diagonal stays

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 64

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Patent #: 14314

Author(s): Horace L. Hervey

Date Issued: February 26, 1856

Location:
Town: Quincy
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trusses, strengthened by susp chains or arches, conn for, alt floorbeam supports

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 11
3rd: 235/94R
4th: 26

Database ID Number: 65

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Patent #: 14584

Author(s): G. W. Huygens

Date Issued: April 1, 1856

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, braced by truss, claimed to be vibration-free, but stilted, specious logic

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 66

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Patent #: 14928

Author(s): Napoleon B. Proctor

Date Issued: May 20, 1856

Location:
Town: Burlington
County: Not Listed
State: VT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, flat boat moves out of slip to join docks

Classifications:
Prime: 29
2nd: 47
3rd: 411/937.2

Database ID Number: 67

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Patent #: 15048

Author(s): Lucius E. Truesdell

Date Issued: June 3, 1856

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lattice truss having diagonals, verticals, & horizontals

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 68

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Patent #: 15113

Author(s): Joshua K. Ingalls

Date Issued: June 10, 1856

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Kings
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, with cast iron top flange & corrugated web to work with w. iron bot. flange

Classifications:
Prime: 52/729.3
2nd: 267/245
3rd: 267/261

Database ID Number: 69

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Patent #: 15823

Author(s): Isaiah Rogers

Date Issued: September 30, 1856

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, using many iron tubes linked together, arch splaying vertically towards ends

Classifications:
Prime: 24
2nd: 25
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 70

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Patent #: 16446

Author(s): D. C. McCallum

Date Issued: January 20, 1857

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, prestressing counters, iron rod beside diag, reissued 6/21/59, #231

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 71

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Patent #: 16572

Author(s): Thomas Moseley

Date Issued: February 3, 1857

Location:
Town: Covington
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch with slanted hangers, connections

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 10
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 72

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Patent #: 16579

Author(s): Reuben Comins

Date Issued: February 10, 1857

Location:
Town: Troy
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, iron castings with fins through chord, for panel points of wood Howe truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 73

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Patent #: 16728

Author(s): Albert Fink

Date Issued: March 3, 1857

Location:
Town: Parkersburg
County: Wood
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, adding subdividing to a Howe Truss

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 74

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Patent #: 17684

Author(s): Francis C. Lowthorp

Date Issued: June 30, 1857

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for panel points of metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 75

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Patent #: 17722

Author(s): Josiah, Jr Brown

Date Issued: July 7, 1857

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for a Smith-like wood truss (double intersect'n Warren), notches are "gains"

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 76

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Patent #: 17864

Author(s): George S. Avery

Date Issued: July 28, 1857

Location:
Town: Lewisboro
County: Westchester
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, wood chords, conn, diagonals in compression, verts in tension

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 77

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Patent #: 18196

Author(s): C. H. Earle

Date Issued: September 15, 1857

Location:
Town: Green Bay
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier cap that can float up with flood and return to brgs, anti-lift grips in pile tips

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 36

Database ID Number: 78

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Patent #: 18253

Author(s): Abram S. Swartz

Date Issued: September 22, 1857

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring helped by cable-stays holding midspan floorbm. Towers at brg seats

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 18
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 79

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Patent #: 18548

Author(s): Francis C. Lowthorp

Date Issued: November 3, 1857

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, conn & member design allowing them to "vibrate" = move w/ temp & LL

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 80

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Patent #: 19573

Author(s): W. McKibbin

Date Issued: March 9, 1858

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 81

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Patent #: 20011

Author(s): T. B. White

Date Issued: April 20, 1858

Location:
Town: New Brighton
County: Beaver
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, 2-part shoes for diagonals, wedged apart to camber truss

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 82

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Patent #: 20082

Author(s): D. H. Morrison

Date Issued: April 27, 1858

Location:
Town: Dayton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, metal shoes for wood truss bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 83

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Patent #: 20414

Author(s): Thomas Durden

Date Issued: June 1, 1858

Location:
Town: Montgomery
County: Not Listed
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br, tubes in arch point 90 degrees to direction of arch

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 9
3rd: 13

Database ID Number: 84

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Patent #: 20987

Author(s): A. D. Briggs

Date Issued: July 27, 1858

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn at panel pts in wood Warren truss, extr blocks beside lwr chords spread load

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 85

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Patent #: 21203

Author(s): Stephen H Long

Date Issued: August 17, 1858

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, w/ lamin wood susp cable & optional arch-like struts, complex diags

Classifications:
Prime: 11

Database ID Number: 86

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Patent #: 21388

Author(s): L. E. Truesdell

Date Issued: August 31, 1858

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Worchester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, horiz. chords at 5 levels! Many of verts & diags; a busy design

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 87

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Patent #: 22106

Author(s): J. C. Briggs

Date Issued: November 23, 1858

Location:
Town: Concord
County: Not Listed
State: NH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, rubber springs to cushion diags ~ draws & notes Pratt & Howe plans

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 88

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Patent #: 22715

Author(s): Lewis Eikenberry

Date Issued: January 25, 1859

Location:
Town: Easton
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
"Compensating iron br" arch+truss, no top or bot chords, to flex w/ thermal stress

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 89

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Patent #: 23574

Author(s): C. T. Harvey

Date Issued: April 12, 1859

Location:
Town: Marquette
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, stone filled timber crib, with aprons, & cutwater hinged to drop with scour

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 90

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Patent #: 24068

Author(s): L. E. Truesdell

Date Issued: May 17, 1859

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Worchester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, way to clamp members at conn to stop wear, improvm't on #21,388 ?

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 256/72

Database ID Number: 91

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Patent #: 24323

Author(s): Montgomery C. Miegs and Samuel J. Reeves

Date Issued: June 7, 1859

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring roof truss

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 92

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Patent #: 24460

Author(s): Joel T. Ham

Date Issued: June 21, 1859

Location:
Town: Covington
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, king-post +4 light arch ribs, conn using iron saddles & rubber springs

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 93

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Patent #: 25210

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: August 23, 1859

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, reinforced corrugated iron beams

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 94

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Patent #: 25537

Author(s): David H. Van Duzer

Date Issued: September 20, 1859

Location:
Town: Sugar Loaf
County: Orange
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., stone, with iron rods near top & bot of stones, post -tensioning together

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 95

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Patent #: 25852

Author(s): Joseph W. Sprague

Date Issued: October 18, 1859

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for tubular members in a metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 96

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Patent #: 26583

Author(s): John Gray

Date Issued: December 27, 1859

Location:
Town: Nashville
County: Not Listed
State: TN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, self-tightening counters in Howe and Long trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 97

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Patent #: 26680

Author(s): Enoch Jacobs

Date Issued: January 3, 1860

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pratt truss, iron, crude, diags are straps continuous for entire br length

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 98

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Patent #: 27457

Author(s): Francis C. Lowthorp

Date Issued: March 13, 1860

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 99

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Patent #: 27571

Author(s): Thomas Schofield

Date Issued: March 20, 1860

Location:
Town: Grass Valley
County: Nevada
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon bridge w/ tied-down submerged floats so elev doesn't vary w/ water level

Classifications:
Prime: 27
2nd: 254/25

Database ID Number: 100

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Patent #: 27963

Author(s): G. O. Bishop

Date Issued: April 24, 1860

Location:
Town: Hannibal
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, trussed arch bridge where arch length is adjustable

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 101

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Patent #: 28240

Author(s): John W. Murphy

Date Issued: May 8, 1860

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, X-braced panels with cast iron verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 102

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Patent #: 28845

Author(s): J. P. Fisher

Date Issued: June 26, 1860

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, pretty wild, many cables and tensioners

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 103

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Patent #: 29825

Author(s): John Roebling

Date Issued: August 28, 1860

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, wood sandwiched by iron plates, with inverted A-frame brace

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 104

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Patent #: 30577

Author(s): J. L. Jones

Date Issued: November 6, 1860

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 105

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Patent #: 31157

Author(s): Lewis Eikenberry

Date Issued: January 22, 1861

Location:
Town: Easton
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, looks like an accordian ~ chords? we don't need no stinking chords

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 106

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Patent #: 31415

Author(s): E. J. Story

Date Issued: February 12, 1861

Location:
Town: Getzville
County: Erie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch +truss, ball & scocket joints where arch hits verts

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 107

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Patent #: 32199

Author(s): J. W. Murphy

Date Issued: April 30, 1861

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, pin-conn, way to tension counters at a pin, avoiding turbuckles

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 108

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Patent #: 32440

Author(s): Joseph Tomlinson

Date Issued: May 28, 1861

Location:
Town: Putnam
County: Linn
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., way to relieve imagined thermal stress (use mat'ls of dif expans coeff)

Classifications:
Prime: 20

Database ID Number: 109

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Patent #: 32480

Author(s): John H. Junkins

Date Issued: June 4, 1861

Location:
Town: Upper Sandusky
County: Wyandot
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood trusses, anti-lean bracing, wood bowstring w/ diags in compr

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 110

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Patent #: 32555

Author(s): Albert D. Briggs

Date Issued: June 18, 1861

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses, where diagonals meet

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 111

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Patent #: 33384

Author(s): Zenas King and Peter M. Frees

Date Issued: October 1, 1861

Location:
Town: Milan
County: Erie
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron crescent arch, deeper at midspan, no diags, dwg labled 2,380

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 112

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Patent #: 33542

Author(s): J. L. Piper

Date Issued: October 22, 1861

Location:
Town: Altoona
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, shoe for diags of wood truss, tubes to bot of lwr chrd are separate from shoe

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 113

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Patent #: 33615

Author(s): Chester Van Horn

Date Issued: October 29, 1861

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, device to lower entire pier into place slowly as stone layers added

Classifications:
Prime: 77.3

Database ID Number: 114

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Patent #: 33629

Author(s): J. P. Avery

Date Issued: November 5, 1861

Location:
Town: Norwich
County: Not Listed
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck, cross-sect looks like inverted W, 2 top & 3 bot chords, resist swaying

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 115

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Patent #: 33954

Author(s): Archibald McGuffie

Date Issued: December 17, 1861

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Monroe
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, trussed like bowstring, tubular arches, connections, dwg labled 2,950

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 116

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Patent #: 34023

Author(s): James S. Yerk and George H. Heming

Date Issued: December 24, 1861

Location:
Town: Tiffen
County: Seneca
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, X-braced, by assembling precast iron panels (dwg also numbered 3,019)

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 223/96

Database ID Number: 117

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Patent #: 34102

Author(s): George H. Bruce

Date Issued: January 7, 1862

Location:
Town: Lancaster
County: Erie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, much cambered double Warren with NO top chord ! Specious explanation

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 118

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Patent #: 34183

Author(s): J. H. Linville

Date Issued: January 14, 1862

Location:
Town: Altoona
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, cast & wrought iron, double intersection, may patent pin-conn eyebars

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 119

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Patent #: 34209

Author(s): Samuel D. Kendall

Date Issued: January 21, 1862

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, complicated, top, middle & bottom chords

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 120

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Patent #: 34311

Author(s): A. McGuffie

Date Issued: February 4, 1862

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br, self-braced by strut between towers, sort of like upside-down bowstring

Classifications:
Prime: 11

Database ID Number: 121

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Patent #: 34765

Author(s): A. McGuffie

Date Issued: March 25, 1862

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch + truss, iron, similar to 31,415

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 105/231

Database ID Number: 122

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Patent #: 35251

Author(s): Alphonse Oudry

Date Issued: May 13, 1862

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., stiffened by trussed cable (2 cables conn by X-ing) plus roadway truss

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 123

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Patent #: 35374

Author(s): George Heath

Date Issued: May 27, 1862

Location:
Town: Little Falls
County: Herkimer
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, pony, built-up members, verts & diags wider at bot, 2 lowr chord rods

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 124

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Patent #: 35381

Author(s): A. McGuffie

Date Issued: May 27, 1862

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch + truss, timber, iron diag rods below arch, iron shoes

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 125

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Patent #: 35582

Author(s): Samuel J Reeves

Date Issued: June 17, 1862

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, patent for the famous Phoenix Column, both round & square shown

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 126

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Patent #: 36606

Author(s): John DuBois

Date Issued: October 7, 1862

Location:
Town: Williamsport
County: Lycoming
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, big barge to carry entire span into position

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 2

Database ID Number: 127

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Patent #: 36913

Author(s): Charles Pontez and C. L. McAlpine

Date Issued: November 11, 1862

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, cast-in-place: sink hollow caisson, excavate, pour conc while pulling caisson

Classifications:
Prime: 405/222
2nd: 166/285

Database ID Number: 128

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Patent #: 37642

Author(s): Isaiah Rogers

Date Issued: February 10, 1863

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, iron, zero-hinged, using multi-flanged tubes that splay apart near abutmts

Classifications:
Prime: 25
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 129

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Patent #: 38552

Author(s): John, Jr. Boles

Date Issued: May 19, 1863

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, of overlapping circles & vert rods. No diags. Neat !

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 130

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Patent #: 38653

Author(s): J. C. Briggs

Date Issued: May 26, 1863

Location:
Town: Concord
County: Not Listed
State: NH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, lattice with extra diagonals, roofing details

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 4
3rd: 5
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 131

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Patent #: 38910

Author(s): Simeon S. Post

Date Issued: June 16, 1863

Location:
Town: Jersey City
County: Hudson
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss connections to reduce thermal stresses, some unique "Post" connections

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 132

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Patent #: 39447

Author(s): J. L. Jones

Date Issued: August 4, 1863

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, cambering by inserting shims in top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 133

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Patent #: 40539

Author(s): Enoch Harrison

Date Issued: November 3, 1863

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoons that disassemble for transport (assigned half to Edward Serrell)

Classifications:
Prime: 114/77R
2nd: 27
3rd: 114/26
4th: 114/352

Database ID Number: 134

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Patent #: 40706

Author(s): Robert Pallett

Date Issued: November 24, 1863

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoons with detatchable wheels, so they can convert into wagons

Classifications:
Prime: 114/43
2nd: 27
3rd: 114/345

Database ID Number: 135

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Patent #: 41288

Author(s): Joseph Francis

Date Issued: January 19, 1864

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., sectional pontoons for easier transport

Classifications:
Prime: 114/356
2nd: 27
3rd: 114/77R
4th: 114/26

Database ID Number: 136

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Patent #: 41594

Author(s): James J. Beard

Date Issued: February 16, 1864

Location:
Town: Columbus
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, using cast iron segments with socket joints, lugs on side to attach roadway

Classifications:
Prime: 24

Database ID Number: 137

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Patent #: 41935

Author(s): G. A. Parker

Date Issued: March 15, 1864

Location:
Town: Lancaster
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier constr. method : build temp pier, then build perm. one high, then lower it

Classifications:
Prime: 405/205
2nd: 405/231

Database ID Number: 138

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Patent #: 43099

Author(s): Albert Cottrell

Date Issued: June 14, 1864

Location:
Town: Newport
County: Not Listed
State: RI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever, building from both abutmts, using corbelling

Classifications:
Prime: 7

Database ID Number: 139

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Patent #: 43202

Author(s): David Hammond and W. R. Reeves

Date Issued: June 21, 1864

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, pony, with a few heavy diags

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 140

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Patent #: 43718

Author(s): Henry Stanley and Reuben Comins

Date Issued: August 2, 1864

Location:
Town: Troy
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, way to fasten tension conn in wood truss. ( looks ineffective )

Classifications:
Prime: 403/300

Database ID Number: 141

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Patent #: 44397

Author(s): Newton Chapin

Date Issued: September 27, 1864

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for lwr chord of wood truss ~ fish plate equiv using iron blocks & threaded rod

Classifications:
Prime: 52/666

Database ID Number: 142

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Patent #: 44398

Author(s): Newton Chapin

Date Issued: September 27, 1864

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for lwr chord of wood truss, iron packing blocks, related to 44,397

Classifications:
Prime: 52/666

Database ID Number: 143

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Patent #: 44498

Author(s): J. J. Aliscs

Date Issued: October 4, 1864

Location:
Town: NY
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
portable military footbridge "Improved Swamp Bridge", wood trestle

Classifications:
Prime: 73
2nd: 75
3rd: 182/179.1
4th: 405/195.1

Database ID Number: 144

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Patent #: 46482

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: February 21, 1865

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR structure using cold-rolled W-shaped iron beams & cross ties

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 145

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Patent #: 47395

Author(s): H. M. Claflin

Date Issued: April 25, 1865

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Cuyahoga
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, knobbed plates for lwr chord splice, plate H is in Bell Ford covered br

Classifications:
Prime: 403/280

Database ID Number: 146

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Patent #: 47920

Author(s): John Jr Boles

Date Issued: May 30, 1865

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, web = vert rods and half or 1/4-circle "braces", perhaps arch also

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 147

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Patent #: 48013

Author(s): John Jr Boles

Date Issued: May 30, 1865

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, web = vert rods and overlapping V's to form a lattice

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 148

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Patent #: 48317

Author(s): E. W. Smith

Date Issued: June 20, 1865

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, iron cylinders or caissons, way to plug bottom & easily fill

Classifications:
Prime: 405/8
2nd: 405/195.1

Database ID Number: 149

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Patent #: 48530

Author(s): Andrew Derrom

Date Issued: July 4, 1865

Location:
Town: Paterson
County: Passaic
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
piers for trestle, pier cap secured by wedges, no lateral bracing, footings for

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 405/224

Database ID Number: 150

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Patent #: 48643

Author(s): William Batchelder

Date Issued: July 11, 1865

Location:
Town: Newburyport
County: Essex
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wild and crazy, for bridges & roofs Like a Jacobs Ladder made with string.

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 151

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Patent #: 50723

Author(s): Jacob H. Linville and John L. Piper

Date Issued: October 31, 1865

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, RR, improvements to #34,183

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 152

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Patent #: 50827

Author(s): Joseph E. Kauser

Date Issued: November 7, 1865

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, 3-hinged trussed arch of many small pieces, big medallion at midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 153

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Patent #: 51328

Author(s): Rembrandt Lockwood

Date Issued: December 5, 1865

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., boxes or troughs of iron, fastened together to make span & filled w/ conc

Classifications:
Prime: 52/86
2nd: 52/270

Database ID Number: 154

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Patent #: 52536

Author(s): L. K. Cole and Howard, Jr Soule

Date Issued: February 13, 1866

Location:
Town: Syracuse
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoes and iron lower chord for combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 155

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Patent #: 52860

Author(s): Marten Kremser

Date Issued: February 27, 1866

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 4

Database ID Number: 156

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Patent #: 53919

Author(s): Aaron Gilmore

Date Issued: April 10, 1866

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, movable cofferdam to build pier in

Classifications:
Prime: 405/13

Database ID Number: 157

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Patent #: 54004

Author(s): Freedom Monroe

Date Issued: April 17, 1866

Location:
Town: Bruce
County: Macomb
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
weather protection, way to protect bridge timbers from rain

Classifications:
Prime: 74

Database ID Number: 158

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Patent #: 56043

Author(s): David Hammond

Date Issued: July 3, 1866

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, with double I-beams for arch

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 74

Database ID Number: 159

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Patent #: 56777

Author(s): David A. Mitchell

Date Issued: July 31, 1866

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, drawbridge, lift and roll bridge carried by susp br. span above

Classifications:
Prime: 43
2nd: 22
3rd: 47

Database ID Number: 160

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Patent #: 57949

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: September 11, 1866

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev. RR br, all parts use his private obsession: W-shaped section from sheet-iron

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 161

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Patent #: 58094

Author(s): John H. Gilbert

Date Issued: September 18, 1866

Location:
Town: Roxbury
County: Norfolk
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Arched bowstring plate girder

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 162

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Patent #: 58266

Author(s): Zenas King

Date Issued: September 25, 1866

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Cuyahoga
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, improvement to 33,384, concerning way to conn tie to arch

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 10
3rd: 13
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 163

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Patent #: 59054

Author(s): Thomas W. Moseley

Date Issued: October 23, 1866

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, plate girder, arched

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 10
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 164

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Patent #: 59769

Author(s): G. P., Jr Herthel

Date Issued: November 20, 1866

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, semi-bowstring, pin-conn, parabolic shape

Classifications:
Prime: 10

Database ID Number: 165

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Patent #: 60199

Author(s): G. T. Lape

Date Issued: December 4, 1866

Location:
Town: Summit
County: Schoharie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., cast iron pieces bolted together end-end & side-side to make entire arch

Classifications:
Prime: 52/86
2nd: 52/270

Database ID Number: 166

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Patent #: 60205

Author(s): O. G. Leopold

Date Issued: December 4, 1866

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, built-up: 3 iron webs with timbers clamped inside as spacer / stiffeners

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5
2nd: 74

Database ID Number: 167

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Patent #: 60434

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: December 11, 1866

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck, looks like misguided attempt to improve on the Bollman patent

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 168

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Patent #: 62278

Author(s): F. C. Lowthorp

Date Issued: February 19, 1867

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, mid-height fitting for truss vertical to pass Whipple's diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 169

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Patent #: 63666

Author(s): J. D. Steele

Date Issued: April 9, 1867

Location:
Town: Pottstown
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, double intersection Warren, each diag = strut + tension tie

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 170

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Patent #: 63714

Author(s): Albert Fink

Date Issued: April 9, 1867

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination Warren RR truss and conn for it.

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 171

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Patent #: 63901

Author(s): William James

Date Issued: April 16, 1867

Location:
Town: Richmond
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. with massive towers, odd anchors, scant lateral & vertical stiffness

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 172

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Patent #: 64340

Author(s): Gervais B. Manley

Date Issued: April 30, 1867

Location:
Town: Cogan's Sta
County: Lycoming
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal latice truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 173

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Patent #: 66327

Author(s): A. S. Hallidie

Date Issued: July 2, 1867

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. with unusual design~main cables go from tower-top to other tower-base

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 174

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Patent #: 66433

Author(s): T. B. White

Date Issued: July 2, 1867

Location:
Town: New Brighton
County: Beaver
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, with box-members using channels

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 175

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Patent #: 66799

Author(s): G. W. Corey

Date Issued: July 16, 1867

Location:
Town: Port Jervis
County: Orange
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 176

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Patent #: 66900

Author(s): Robert W. Smith

Date Issued: July 16, 1867

Location:
Town: Tippecanoe
County: Monroe
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Smith Truss patent, vertical posts near midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 177

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Patent #: 70245

Author(s): D. H. Morrison

Date Issued: October 29, 1867

Location:
Town: Dayton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 178

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Patent #: 70666

Author(s): W. H. Williams

Date Issued: November 5, 1867

Location:
Town: Little Falls
County: Herkimer
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123

Database ID Number: 179

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Patent #: 71483

Author(s): Peter Hendricks

Date Issued: November 26, 1867

Location:
Town: Floris
County: Davis
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., twisted wire cable hangers

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 180

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Patent #: 71484

Author(s): G. P., Jr Herthel

Date Issued: November 26, 1867

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, pin conn, rollers on one end, improved 59,769 verts = rod & compr strut

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 181

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Patent #: 71868

Author(s): John Glass and George P. Schneider and William B. Rezner

Date Issued: December 10, 1867

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, heavy oval arch

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 182

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Patent #: 71955

Author(s): Charles Bender

Date Issued: December 10, 1867

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., self anchoring

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 183

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Patent #: 72611

Author(s): Joseph Davenport

Date Issued: December 24, 1867

Location:
Town: Massillon
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring where the arch is a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 184

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Patent #: 72859

Author(s): A. B. Ives

Date Issued: December 31, 1867

Location:
Town: Bloomington
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier or abutment, A-frame bent of "star" iron

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 185

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Patent #: 73003

Author(s): C. T. Harvey

Date Issued: January 7, 1868

Location:
Town: Tarrytown
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, single tube pier for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 186

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Patent #: 75477

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: March 10, 1868

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, cambering using threaded rods for lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 187

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Patent #: 75502

Author(s): T. B. White

Date Issued: March 10, 1868

Location:
Town: New Brighton
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, for wood truss, iron "packing blocks" (fish plate) to splice lowr chord timbers

Classifications:
Prime: 52/666
2nd: 294/118

Database ID Number: 188

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Patent #: 76041

Author(s): Charles Bender

Date Issued: March 31, 1868

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., +cable between tower-tops, and X-bracing betwn that & catenary, conn

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 189

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Patent #: 76212

Author(s): Levi Liscom

Date Issued: March 31, 1868

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever, adds truss atop Cottrell's #43,099 corbeling, which becomes bot chord

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 7

Database ID Number: 190

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Patent #: 76443

Author(s): Joseph Heckel and Michael Eichinger

Date Issued: April 7, 1868

Location:
Town: Decatur
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
paint to make timbers fire & decay resistant ~ plaster, shell lime, clay, newt tongue

Classifications:
Prime: 106/256
2nd: 106/260

Database ID Number: 191

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Patent #: 76558

Author(s): L. E. Truesdell

Date Issued: April 7, 1868

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, crimped & clamped tension conn, curved end post = "improvemt"?

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 192

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Patent #: 76795

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: April 14, 1868

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, metal, arch & floorbeams of corrugated iron sheet

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 193

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Patent #: 77103

Author(s): John Sanderson

Date Issued: April 21, 1868

Location:
Town: Fredericksburg
County: Wayne
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, segmental ribs connected by cross ties and bolts that clamp segments

Classifications:
Prime: 24

Database ID Number: 194

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Patent #: 77741

Author(s): George T. Lape

Date Issued: May 12, 1868

Location:
Town: Summit
County: Schoharie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, bolt-together metal voussoirs to form arch for bridge, tunnel, etc.

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 52/270

Database ID Number: 195

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Patent #: 77800

Author(s): E. M. Carpenter

Date Issued: May 12, 1868

Location:
Town: Middletown
County: Orange
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, cambering by splitting wood verts & wedging them apart at tops

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 196

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Patent #: 78000

Author(s): Rufus S. Merrill

Date Issued: May 19, 1868

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever, merely Liscom's #76,212 built of 'angle iron' instead of wood

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 7

Database ID Number: 197

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Patent #: 78073

Author(s): Edward Denmead and Wendel Bollman

Date Issued: May 19, 1868

Location:
Town: Marietta
County: Not Listed
State: GA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal or combin truss, cushioned shoes for diags bear on pin, not chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 198

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Patent #: 78202

Author(s): Edward Hamilton

Date Issued: May 26, 1868

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, cross bracing for

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5
2nd: 74

Database ID Number: 199

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Patent #: 78403

Author(s): L. E. Truesdell

Date Issued: May 26, 1868

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, metal, crimped & clamped tension conn

Classifications:
Prime: 403/341
2nd: 14
3rd: 22
4th: 403/393

Database ID Number: 200

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Patent #: 78797

Author(s): John Foreman

Date Issued: June 9, 1868

Location:
Town: Pottstown
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, inclined posts, very-inclined tension rods

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 201

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Patent #: 78860

Author(s): G. R. Bramhall

Date Issued: June 16, 1868

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, rigging lower entire pier into place inside a cofferdam

Classifications:
Prime: 77.3

Database ID Number: 202

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Patent #: 79753

Author(s): C. T. Harvey

Date Issued: July 7, 1868

Location:
Town: Tarrytown
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, multi-tube pier for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125
2nd: 52/298
3rd: 52/690

Database ID Number: 203

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Patent #: 79869

Author(s): J. R. Smith

Date Issued: July 14, 1868

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for lower chord of iron truss. Uses blocks like miniature metal fish plates

Classifications:
Prime: 403/391

Database ID Number: 204

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Patent #: 80530

Author(s): Eli M. Barnum

Date Issued: August 4, 1868

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, piers for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 205

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Patent #: 81406

Author(s): Andrew J. Post

Date Issued: August 25, 1868

Location:
Town: Hudson City
County: Hudson
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, compress'n membr for truss, of channls & pl, width tapers, cast iron ends

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.2
2nd: 182/222

Database ID Number: 206

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Patent #: 81666

Author(s): Richard Montgomery and Mary J. Montgomery

Date Issued: September 1, 1868

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, with corrugated iron chords ref similar #76,795

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 207

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Patent #: 81682

Author(s): W. B. Porter

Date Issued: September 1, 1868

Location:
Town: Plattsmouth
County: Cass
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, tubular iron in several sections, broad base, filled with concrete

Classifications:
Prime: 405/231

Database ID Number: 208

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Patent #: 81817

Author(s): Andrew J. Post

Date Issued: September 1, 1868

Location:
Town: Hudson
County: Hudson
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for combination truss, assoc. with Post Truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 209

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Patent #: 81950

Author(s): Henry A. Rust and Ludwig Herrmann

Date Issued: September 8, 1868

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn that keep counters tight in a metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 210

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Patent #: 81960

Author(s): J. K. Thompson

Date Issued: September 8, 1868

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, "Howe" with chords of iron plates? but drawn as a Pratt

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 211

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Patent #: 82388

Author(s): Joseph Davenport

Date Issued: September 22, 1868

Location:
Town: Massillon
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with big levers at both ends to stiffen arch under live load

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 212

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Patent #: 82738

Author(s): J. M. Moorehead

Date Issued: October 6, 1868

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
clamp for rods that cross each other at right angles

Classifications:
Prime: 403/188
2nd: 14
3rd: 403/391

Database ID Number: 213

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Patent #: 83196

Author(s): James Montgomery

Date Issued: October 20, 1868

Location:
Town: Croton Landing
County: Westchester
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, connect several special rolled I-shapes to make one deep girder

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5
2nd: 52/643
3rd: 52/737.2
4th: 52/692

Database ID Number: 214

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Patent #: 83226

Author(s): George Walters and Thomas Shaffer

Date Issued: October 20, 1868

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, circular, of curved plates conn by complex inside rings & lengthwise bars

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.4

Database ID Number: 215

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Patent #: 83425

Author(s): George Walters and Thomas Shaffer

Date Issued: October 27, 1868

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, circular, of curved plates conn by complex inside rings & lengthwise bars

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.4

Database ID Number: 216

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Patent #: 83942

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: November 10, 1868

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, iron, levers & rods to reduce live load defl & thermal stress

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 217

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Patent #: 84288

Author(s): J. H. Linville

Date Issued: November 24, 1868

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, "iron or steel", lattice, tension diags used to brace compression diags

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 218

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Patent #: 84827

Author(s): T. G. Hulett

Date Issued: December 8, 1868

Location:
Town: Niagara
County: Niagara
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
adjustable shackle for securing bridge cables

Classifications:
Prime: 22
2nd: 24/115R
3rd: 403/211

Database ID Number: 219

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Patent #: 85171

Author(s): E. M. Grant

Date Issued: December 22, 1868

Location:
Town: Macon
County: Not Listed
State: GA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier using Phoenix columns and other shapes, complicated

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 76
3rd: 52/650.2

Database ID Number: 220

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Patent #: 85332

Author(s): R. W. Rogers

Date Issued: December 29, 1868

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, segmental iron, with each hollow segment enclosing dwellings or stores

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 221

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Patent #: 85684

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: January 5, 1869

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, piers & beams for, using (what else) his cold-rolled W-shapes

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 222

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Patent #: 86227

Author(s): G. P., Jr Herthel

Date Issued: January 26, 1869

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, seems to patent subdividing, conn, camber by lengthening verts w/ shims

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 223

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Patent #: 86538

Author(s): David Hammond and W. R. Reeves

Date Issued: February 2, 1869

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, using channels

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15
3rd: 74
4th: 29/897.31

Database ID Number: 224

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Patent #: 87171

Author(s): Ozial A. Howe

Date Issued: February 23, 1869

Location:
Town: Jersey City
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, timber cribs, float it to position, fill w/ stones to sink, stack several

Classifications:
Prime: 77.3

Database ID Number: 225

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Patent #: 87174

Author(s): Charles Kellogg

Date Issued: February 23, 1869

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, cast iron conn for tubular chords in a metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 226

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Patent #: 87741

Author(s): T. B. White

Date Issued: March 9, 1869

Location:
Town: New Brighton
County: Beaver
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cruciform truss members from 4 inwardly curving iron plates, + conn

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 227

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Patent #: 88181

Author(s): John J. Kelly

Date Issued: March 23, 1869

Location:
Town: Slippery Rock
County: Butler
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with triangular cross-sect arch and wire rope lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 228

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Patent #: 88446

Author(s): F. E. Canda

Date Issued: March 30, 1869

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, complex built-up compr members & conn, for easy disassembly

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 229

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Patent #: 88546

Author(s): Francois Coignet

Date Issued: April 6, 1869

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete, early crude patent for structural use of concrete, called "artificial stone"

Classifications:
Prime: 52/741.1
2nd: 52/169.5
3rd: 405/110

Database ID Number: 230

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Patent #: 89233

Author(s): R. P., Jr. Morgan

Date Issued: April 20, 1869

Location:
Town: Dwight
County: Livingston
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR structure above streets, which piers arch across

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 231

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Patent #: 89400

Author(s): Joseph Gill

Date Issued: April 27, 1869

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, honeycomb shaped web system

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 74
3rd: 74.5

Database ID Number: 232

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Patent #: 89442

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: April 27, 1869

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood Howe truss that allow timbers to be easily replaced

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 233

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Patent #: 89541

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: April 27, 1869

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, single-column pier using his W-shapes for all, rails are their own beams

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 234

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Patent #: 89745

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: May 4, 1869

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, thrust bars and levers to reduce pier size (I don't think it works as claimed)

Classifications:
Prime: 26

Database ID Number: 235

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Patent #: 89948

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: May 11, 1869

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
piers for high trestle br., iron, braced by tension rods in several ways

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 236

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Patent #: 90263

Author(s): G. P., Jr Herthel

Date Issued: May 18, 1869

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, camelback Whipple, built-up members & conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 237

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Patent #: 90767

Author(s): J. A. McKay

Date Issued: June 1, 1869

Location:
Town: Auburn
County: DeKalb
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, like a Howe with diagonals pinned & no verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 238

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Patent #: 91124

Author(s): George Halstead

Date Issued: June 8, 1869

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 239

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Patent #: 91745

Author(s): J. G. Henszey

Date Issued: June 22, 1869

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, simple built-up top chord, no diagonals 1 still exists in PA (with diags)

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 240

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Patent #: 93638

Author(s): Charles H. Parker

Date Issued: August 10, 1869

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever for dead load, then build metal bowstring on it for live load, exp. brgs

Classifications:
Prime: 7
2nd: 9
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 241

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Patent #: 93917

Author(s): C. Shaler Smith

Date Issued: August 17, 1869

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, chord construction for a deck truss

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 242

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Patent #: 94272

Author(s): Calvin Baker

Date Issued: August 31, 1869

Location:
Town: St. Joseph
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, king post with legs thrusting against plates that press against streambanks

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 243

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Patent #: 94321

Author(s): John Laird

Date Issued: August 31, 1869

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, of many precast arch segments

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 244

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Patent #: 94322

Author(s): John Laird and G. F. Laird

Date Issued: August 31, 1869

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, arch construction and connections for

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 245

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Patent #: 95402

Author(s): E. W. Young

Date Issued: September 28, 1869

Location:
Town: Spring Gardens
County: Middlesex
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilevers reach part way from piers to midspan, susp span across gap

Classifications:
Prime: 8

Database ID Number: 246

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Patent #: 95784

Author(s): James B. Eads and Henry Flad

Date Issued: October 12, 1869

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, multi-span, pier seats on rollers to reduce pier size

Classifications:
Prime: 24

Database ID Number: 247

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Patent #: 96278

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: October 26, 1869

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, length adjustmt for verticals, lateral bracing conn Smith-Latrobe Co

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 248

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Patent #: 96569

Author(s): Samuel Ensign

Date Issued: November 9, 1869

Location:
Town: New Franklin
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, odd and light, compr members cast or made from bent sheet metal

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 11
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 249

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Patent #: 96793

Author(s): Richard J. Gatling

Date Issued: November 16, 1869

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, iron web & wood flanges, easy to nail. Machine gun invntr had peaceful side

Classifications:
Prime: 52/376

Database ID Number: 250

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Patent #: 97714

Author(s): Robert W. Smith

Date Issued: December 7, 1869

Location:
Town: Toledo
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn & bracing for wood trusses ~ for the Smith Truss

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 251

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Patent #: 97975

Author(s): C. Shaler Smith and C. H. Latrobe and F. H. Smith

Date Issued: December 14, 1869

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle using cast iron fittings and Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 252

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Patent #: 98620

Author(s): C. H. Parker

Date Issued: January 4, 1870

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever br. with wire cable for top chord over piers

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 253

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Patent #: 98699

Author(s): H. S. McDowell

Date Issued: January 11, 1870

Location:
Town: Columbus
County: Colorado
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, Howe-like with split diags, claimed easy membr replacemt

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 254

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Patent #: 98866

Author(s): G. P., Jr Herthel

Date Issued: January 18, 1870

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses, & members from rolled sheet metal

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 13

Database ID Number: 255

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Patent #: 99017

Author(s): C. Shaler Smith and C. H. Latrobe and F. H. Smith

Date Issued: January 18, 1870

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle using Phoenix columns ~ almost identical to # 97,975

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 256

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Patent #: 99435

Author(s): C. T. Harvey

Date Issued: February 1, 1870

Location:
Town: Tarrytown
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, piers for, very slim, also holds street lamp at lower level

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 257

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Patent #: 99597

Author(s): Jarvis Royal

Date Issued: February 8, 1870

Location:
Town: White Rock
County: Ogle
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. requiring a big pier & tower at midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 258

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Patent #: 99989

Author(s): Alpheus Wheelock

Date Issued: February 15, 1870

Location:
Town: Ft. Wayne
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. abutment of prefab iron plates, internal cross-ties, columns filled with conc.

Classifications:
Prime: 405/284

Database ID Number: 259

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Patent #: 100185

Author(s): C. H. Parker

Date Issued: February 22, 1870

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, designed for flexible length, member constr.

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 260

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Patent #: 100254

Author(s): H. C. Brundage

Date Issued: March 1, 1870

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pratt with many floorbeams, and conn for metal trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 261

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Patent #: 102392

Author(s): David Hammond and Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 26, 1870

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, tubular arch and connections for

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 262

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Patent #: 102393

Author(s): David Hammond and Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 26, 1870

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, tubular arch and connections for

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 263

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Patent #: 102394

Author(s): David Hammond and Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 26, 1870

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pratt truss and connections, with Phoenix column verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 13
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 264

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Patent #: 103233

Author(s): Charles H. Parker

Date Issued: May 17, 1870

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever br., from ea. shore, loosely connected at midspan using sliding pins

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 265

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Patent #: 103765

Author(s): Thomas Moseley

Date Issued: May 31, 1870

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring sort of, a king-post truss w/ ea strut an arched girder to resist bending

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 13
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 266

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Patent #: 103911

Author(s): Mahlon Miller

Date Issued: June 7, 1870

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br, rectangular cross-sect arches built-up from plates, bowstring w/ no diags

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 267

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Patent #: 104036

Author(s): Charles Kellogg

Date Issued: June 7, 1870

Location:
Town: Athens
County: Bradford
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood truss that has metal diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 268

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Patent #: 104110

Author(s): Milo S. Cartter and Hosea B. Cartter

Date Issued: June 14, 1870

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, "improved" combin Pratt, iron-bar lwr chds w/ interlocking finger-grip joints

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 269

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Patent #: 104295

Author(s): John Foreman

Date Issued: June 14, 1870

Location:
Town: Pottstown
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses, cast iron box to join diags with a chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 270

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Patent #: 104867

Author(s): David McCurdy

Date Issued: June 28, 1870

Location:
Town: Ottawa
County: Putnam
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, wood, no diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15
3rd: 251/901

Database ID Number: 271

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Patent #: 104868

Author(s): David McCurdy

Date Issued: June 28, 1870

Location:
Town: Ottawa
County: Putnam
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, king-post (A-frame) with curved, built-up top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 272

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Patent #: 104869

Author(s): David McCurdy

Date Issued: June 28, 1870

Location:
Town: Ottawa
County: Putnam
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, odd shallow truss with deck on top ~ looks inefficient ~ clamped conn for it

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 273

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Patent #: 104902

Author(s): Lucius E. Truesdell

Date Issued: June 28, 1870

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Worchester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, Truesdell seems obsessed with crimp & clamp truss diag conn

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 274

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Patent #: 104969

Author(s): W. S. Levake

Date Issued: July 5, 1870

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, tubular arch

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 275

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Patent #: 105195

Author(s): T. B. Gregory

Date Issued: July 12, 1870

Location:
Town: Champaign
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, timber, adjustable vertical height

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 276

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Patent #: 105497

Author(s): Jacob Seebold

Date Issued: July 19, 1870

Location:
Town: Kantz
County: Snyder
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable-stayed nutty truss w/ replacable members~kitchen sink accidentally omitted

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 20

Database ID Number: 277

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Patent #: 105868

Author(s): Lucius E. Truesdell

Date Issued: July 26, 1870

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, another crimp & clamp from Truesdell <-- I am weary of this guy

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 278

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Patent #: 106647

Author(s): Augustus Allen

Date Issued: August 23, 1870

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: Cass
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, air-tight covering to protect timber pier

Classifications:
Prime: 238/2
2nd: 75
3rd: 52/169.14
4th: 428/76

Database ID Number: 279

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Patent #: 106760

Author(s): J. S. Adams

Date Issued: August 30, 1870

Location:
Town: Elgin
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, for truss, way to adjust truss camber (post length, etc) and equalize strains

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 5
3rd: 73.5
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 280

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Patent #: 106855

Author(s): Thomas Moseley

Date Issued: August 30, 1870

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
king-post truss, ea strut a deep girder, arch bolted to girder, many hangers

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 11
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 281

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Patent #: 106995

Author(s): T. A. Bryan

Date Issued: September 6, 1870

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating bridge, normally rests on abuts, but rises during big flood

Classifications:
Prime: 28
2nd: 76

Database ID Number: 282

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Patent #: 107106

Author(s): Jacob Seebold

Date Issued: September 6, 1870

Location:
Town: Kantz
County: Snyder
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, modest size and simple, iron-rod for lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 283

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Patent #: 107576

Author(s): I. H. Wheeler

Date Issued: September 20, 1870

Location:
Town: Sciotoville
County: Scioto
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, top, bottom, & middle chords, alleged improvement

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 284

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Patent #: 108317

Author(s): Charles Bender

Date Issued: October 18, 1870

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle br., piers on rollers, & fixed to spans, many ties between piers & beams

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 285

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Patent #: 108663

Author(s): G. H. White

Date Issued: October 25, 1870

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
spiral-braced cylinder bridge with longit ribs, dia swells towards midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 286

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Patent #: 109628

Author(s): William Johnson

Date Issued: November 29, 1870

Location:
Town: Lambertville
County: Hunterdon
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, adjust tensions in diags using eccentrics at pin conn

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 411/978

Database ID Number: 287

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Patent #: 109637

Author(s): C. H. Lilienthal

Date Issued: November 29, 1870

Location:
Town: Yonkers
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, tapering iron tube, wood pile in center, concrete between

Classifications:
Prime: 405/223
2nd: 405/251

Database ID Number: 288

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Patent #: 109886

Author(s): Moody Freeman

Date Issued: December 12, 1870

Location:
Town: Wempma
County: Marshal
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Culvert, metal, flat-bottomed with ribs

Classifications:
Prime: 405/126
2nd: 138/159

Database ID Number: 289

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Patent #: 110154

Author(s): John W. Murphy

Date Issued: December 13, 1870

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, circular, of curved plates conn by T-shaped strips & rivets

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 290

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Patent #: 110173

Author(s): Marshall Turley

Date Issued: December 13, 1870

Location:
Town: Council Bluffs
County: Not Listed
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, wood, very small, no provision for approach road

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 291

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Patent #: 110546

Author(s): A. M. Campbell

Date Issued: December 27, 1870

Location:
Town: Newark
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. with levers, pulleys, wedges, and much more

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 292

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Patent #: 111010

Author(s): C. S. Smith

Date Issued: January 17, 1871

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle, iron, expansion (roller) bearings for spans between piers

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 293

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Patent #: 111636

Author(s): Jacob S. Goshorn

Date Issued: February 7, 1871

Location:
Town: Ft. Wayne
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. abutment, prefab from iron columns, replaceable cast iron panels & wood sills

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 294

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Patent #: 111662

Author(s): J. A. McKay

Date Issued: February 7, 1871

Location:
Town: Auburn
County: DeKalb
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, cast iron, for lateral bracing of wood truss (which looks much like a Smith)

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 295

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Patent #: 112878

Author(s): J. M. Wilson

Date Issued: March 21, 1871

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, expansion bearing, roller, for end of a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 296

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Patent #: 113030

Author(s): Ferdinand Dieckman

Date Issued: March 28, 1871

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular, with cable tie between ends

Classifications:
Prime: 12

Database ID Number: 297

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Patent #: 114039

Author(s): T. Willis Pratt

Date Issued: April 25, 1871

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Warren, channels for all parts, but looks like patent for gusset plate conn

Classifications:
Prime: 52/693
2nd: 3
3rd: 256/21

Database ID Number: 298

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Patent #: 114363

Author(s): Charles B Sreeves

Date Issued: May 2, 1871

Location:
Town: Atchison
County: Atchison
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood-arch / metal-tie bowstring, requires no notching

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 299

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Patent #: 114401

Author(s): Thomas C. Boutet

Date Issued: May 2, 1871

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss with cable for lower chord, construction methods

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 23
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 300

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Patent #: 114479

Author(s): Jacob Seebold

Date Issued: May 2, 1871

Location:
Town: Kantz
County: Snyder
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, with inverted king-post floorbeam, lateral bracing conn

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 9
3rd: 15
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 301

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Patent #: 116787

Author(s): Albert Fink

Date Issued: July 4, 1871

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, patent for a subdivided parallel chord truss

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 302

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Patent #: 117042

Author(s): Joseph Burke

Date Issued: July 18, 1871

Location:
Town: Saginaw
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, iron-rod verticals, & conn

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 403/300

Database ID Number: 303

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Patent #: 117047

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: July 18, 1871

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 304

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Patent #: 117048

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: July 18, 1871

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 305

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Patent #: 117049

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: July 18, 1871

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 306

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Patent #: 117050

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: July 18, 1871

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 307

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Patent #: 118258

Author(s): George C. Morgan

Date Issued: August 22, 1871

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pratt truss with all tension members being wire rope

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 13

Database ID Number: 308

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Patent #: 118566

Author(s): Peter L. Weimer

Date Issued: August 29, 1871

Location:
Town: Lebanon
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, metal, lattice web system

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 309

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Patent #: 119413

Author(s): David O. Saylor

Date Issued: September 26, 1871

Location:
Town: Allentown
County: Lehigh
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Cement, first US patent for Portland Cement

Classifications:
Prime: 106/769
2nd: 106/739

Database ID Number: 310

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Patent #: 119466

Author(s): Levi Kettinger

Date Issued: October 3, 1871

Location:
Town: Massillon
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, built-up tubular arch construction, too few diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 13
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 311

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Patent #: 120282

Author(s): Lancelot Kirkup

Date Issued: October 24, 1871

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, metal, arch constr, diags conn to arch & lwr chord halfway betwn verts

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 312

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Patent #: 120319

Author(s): Oliver H. Perry and William H Allen

Date Issued: October 24, 1871

Location:
Town: Beloit
County: Rock
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for bowstrings

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 313

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Patent #: 121318

Author(s): Charles Bender

Date Issued: November 28, 1871

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, Phoenix Column w/ "improved" clamping-joining ~ flanges in, smooth ext.

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 314

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Patent #: 121374

Author(s): Peter Jackson

Date Issued: November 28, 1871

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, arched cast iron, probably for roofs because no hangers for roadway

Classifications:
Prime: 52/644
2nd: 5
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 315

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Patent #: 121432

Author(s): F.H. Smith

Date Issued: November 28, 1871

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, from many metal angles, to form hollow tube of sorts

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159
2nd: 138/160

Database ID Number: 316

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Patent #: 121556

Author(s): J. B. Tracy

Date Issued: December 5, 1871

Location:
Town: Lincoln
County: Sussex
State: DE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, extra stiffening for top chord of a parallel-chord truss

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 317

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Patent #: 121848

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: December 12, 1871

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, bottom of a Phoenix column, at lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 318

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Patent #: 121894

Author(s): Charles Pfeifer

Date Issued: December 12, 1871

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch RR bridge, arch is trussed for stiffness, hangers but no diags

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 319

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Patent #: 122247

Author(s): John Gray

Date Issued: December 26, 1871

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., improved traveling wheel to place strands of main cables

Classifications:
Prime: 23

Database ID Number: 320

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Patent #: 123297

Author(s): Edward Serrell

Date Issued: January 30, 1872

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trestles

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 321

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Patent #: 123685

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: February 13, 1872

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier caisson, exhaust pipes, oil lamp that doesn't asphyxiate workers

Classifications:
Prime: 362/363
2nd: 77.3

Database ID Number: 322

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Patent #: 124284

Author(s): James Parrish

Date Issued: March 5, 1872

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, timber crib with some cells without floors so added stone fits streambed

Classifications:
Prime: 77.3
2nd: 405/23
3rd: 405/33

Database ID Number: 323

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Patent #: 125117

Author(s): A. P. Boller

Date Issued: April 2, 1872

Location:
Town: Orange
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss verticals, metal, tapered to be broader at mid-height, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 324

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Patent #: 125128

Author(s): Daniel Fovargue

Date Issued: April 2, 1872

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, iron, tied, arch is trussed with bent-strap diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 325

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Patent #: 125182

Author(s): John H. Diedrichs

Date Issued: April 2, 1872

Location:
Town: Richmond
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, similar to Fink with no lower chord, adjustable post length

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 326

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Patent #: 125244

Author(s): John Zellweger

Date Issued: April 2, 1872

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., sides battered so base is wider than roadway, for better stability

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 327

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Patent #: 126841

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: May 14, 1872

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, quirky 6-pointed; but text critiques Phoenix & Keystone columns

Classifications:
Prime: 52/651.07
2nd: 52/731.8

Database ID Number: 328

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Patent #: 127017

Author(s): Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: May 21, 1872

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for lateral bracing in a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 329

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Patent #: 127019

Author(s): Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: May 21, 1872

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Column, almost same as (ripoff of?) earlier 110,154. Given to Clarke-Reeves &Co

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 330

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Patent #: 127564

Author(s): Milo S. Cartter and Hosea B. Cartter

Date Issued: June 4, 1872

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoes for a combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 331

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Patent #: 127791

Author(s): Reuben L. Partridge

Date Issued: June 11, 1872

Location:
Town: Marysville
County: Union
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, so much like a Smith that patent offce rejected 3 times, end shoe for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 332

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Patent #: 128184

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: June 18, 1872

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebars, new way to make

Classifications:
Prime: 29/558

Database ID Number: 333

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Patent #: 128349

Author(s): John Zellweger

Date Issued: June 25, 1872

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, subdivided to form 2 lenticulars

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 6

Database ID Number: 334

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Patent #: 128350

Author(s): Michael Adler

Date Issued: June 25, 1872

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring and truss with compression members from common shapes

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 335

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Patent #: 128449

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: June 25, 1872

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Whipple-ish, with verticals at varying slants, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 336

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Patent #: 128509

Author(s): W. B. Rezner

Date Issued: July 2, 1872

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoe connection for bowstrings, swivels to be perpendicular to arch rib

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 337

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Patent #: 129374

Author(s): W. E. Thomas

Date Issued: July 16, 1872

Location:
Town: Queenstown
County: Queen Anne
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating brige, rises during flood as water rushes against underslung "water ski"

Classifications:
Prime: 28
2nd: 42

Database ID Number: 338

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Patent #: 129479

Author(s): John Johnson

Date Issued: July 16, 1872

Location:
Town: Mott Haven
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., wood?, use tie-backs to lay up successive cross beams ~ over complex

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89

Database ID Number: 339

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Patent #: 130479

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: August 13, 1872

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, more conn for Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 340

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Patent #: 130561

Author(s): William F. Bonnell

Date Issued: August 20, 1872

Location:
Town: Portland
County: Not Listed
State: ME

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for truss that has cruciform top chord and verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 341

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Patent #: 130959

Author(s): C. W. Warner

Date Issued: August 27, 1872

Location:
Town: Essex
County: Chittenden
State: VT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combin king-post with oil-filled dishes enclosing brg seats to slow decay

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 342

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Patent #: 132087

Author(s): C. H. Latrobe

Date Issued: October 8, 1872

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, strut, or chord for truss ~ built-up from several I-beams or channels

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.2

Database ID Number: 343

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Patent #: 132254

Author(s): T. C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: October 15, 1872

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 104/35
2nd: 104/46

Database ID Number: 344

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Patent #: 132271

Author(s): Henry Flad

Date Issued: October 15, 1872

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., hydraulic jack to raise bearings atop towers, compensate for therml exp

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 345

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Patent #: 132284

Author(s): S. P. Hastings

Date Issued: October 15, 1872

Location:
Town: Tonawanda
County: Erie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with 2nd 'helper' arch, stringers also help, multiple levels of wierdness

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 346

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Patent #: 132287

Author(s): J. J. Hooker

Date Issued: October 15, 1872

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for lwr chord of wood truss, iron blocks on each side of splice, conn by bolts

Classifications:
Prime: 403/300

Database ID Number: 347

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Patent #: 132307

Author(s): T. B. Mills

Date Issued: October 15, 1872

Location:
Town: Iola
County: Allen
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier & abutment, of 4 upwardly-converging I-beams under ea brg seat

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 348

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Patent #: 132398

Author(s): G. E. Harding

Date Issued: October 22, 1872

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular

Classifications:
Prime: 12
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 349

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Patent #: 132475

Author(s): J. H. Linville

Date Issued: October 22, 1872

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Column, similar to a Phoenix Column, but with cross ties & open slots

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 350

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Patent #: 132803

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke

Date Issued: November 5, 1872

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, vertical to floorbeam conn in a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 351

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Patent #: 132860

Author(s): Hamlin G. Russell

Date Issued: November 5, 1872

Location:
Town: Lincoln
County: Logan
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss with deck hung below chords to shed water

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 352

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Patent #: 132975

Author(s): T. B. Mills and B. M. Smith

Date Issued: November 12, 1872

Location:
Town: Iola
County: Allen
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss or girder, design for built-up top chord or top flange

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 353

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Patent #: 133232

Author(s): Moritz Lassig

Date Issued: November 19, 1872

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, complex cast-iron shoes for combin Pratt or Whipple truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 354

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Patent #: 134269

Author(s): John Gray

Date Issued: December 24, 1872

Location:
Town: Cincinnati
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, hollow iron, for susp br. towers

Classifications:
Prime: 52/301
2nd: 52/295

Database ID Number: 355

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Patent #: 134338

Author(s): Squire Whipple

Date Issued: December 24, 1872

Location:
Town: Albany
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, lift bridge ~ high stationary truss holds & lifts a light bridge deck platform

Classifications:
Prime: 42

Database ID Number: 356

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Patent #: 135705

Author(s): James Gates

Date Issued: February 11, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, cast iron shoes for combin Howe Truss

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 357

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Patent #: 135802

Author(s): David Hammond and Michael Adler and Job Abbott

Date Issued: February 11, 1873

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Primary Associated Bridge Company:
Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring using 2 Phoenix columns, or oval Phoenix col, for each arch

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 13
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 358

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Patent #: 135970

Author(s): W. B. Cooper

Date Issued: February 18, 1873

Location:
Town: Albany
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, joints in arch of bowstring using Phoenix columns

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 359

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Patent #: 136177

Author(s): Henry Pettit

Date Issued: February 25, 1873

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, floorbeam seat where floorbm rests directly on lwr chord eyebars of a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 360

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Patent #: 136389

Author(s): William Sellers

Date Issued: March 4, 1873

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, iron, coupling method for tubular arch pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 361

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Patent #: 136935

Author(s): S. B. Nowlan

Date Issued: March 18, 1873

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam bridge, made from segments that hook together

Classifications:
Prime: 24
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 362

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Patent #: 136951

Author(s): James Anderson

Date Issued: March 18, 1873

Location:
Town: Gouverneur
County: St Lawrence
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, improved combin Howe truss, iron top & bot chords, wood diags

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 363

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Patent #: 137482

Author(s): Thomas Willis Pratt

Date Issued: April 1, 1873

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Warren, members=multi wood planks, spread planks at mid-lngth to stiffen

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 364

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Patent #: 137552

Author(s): E. J. Hulbert and A. N. N. Aubin

Date Issued: April 8, 1873

Location:
Town: Portland
County: Not Listed
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR structure above streets, which piers arch across

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/243
3rd: 105/148

Database ID Number: 365

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Patent #: 138049

Author(s): Samuel Sellers and Marcus Manly

Date Issued: April 22, 1873

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
guardrail, decorative, in iron or steel

Classifications:
Prime: 256/21
2nd: D25/44
3rd: D25/121

Database ID Number: 366

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Patent #: 138222

Author(s): Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 29, 1873

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, iron facing for upstream edge of a stone cutwater

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 367

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Patent #: 139904

Author(s): W. W. Lummus

Date Issued: June 17, 1873

Location:
Town: Lynn
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, iron web & wood flanges, easy to nail to

Classifications:
Prime: 52/376

Database ID Number: 368

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Patent #: 140181

Author(s): D. C. Bower

Date Issued: June 24, 1873

Location:
Town: Troy
County: Miami
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, shoes for wood multiple king-post truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 369

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Patent #: 140471

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke and Adolphus Bonzano and John Griffen

Date Issued: July 1, 1873

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, high, combine several posts to form towers, assigned to Clarke,Reeves

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 370

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Patent #: 140888

Author(s): T. C. Clarke

Date Issued: July 15, 1873

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever, build halves of cantilevr bridge parallel to river, then rotate them to meet

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 7
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 371

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Patent #: 141026

Author(s): Alfred Bannister

Date Issued: July 22, 1873

Location:
Town: Alameda
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, no diagonals, but top chord looks woven

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 372

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Patent #: 141056

Author(s): Henry J. Hunter and Jesse Rice

Date Issued: July 22, 1873

Location:
Town: Sciotoville
County: Scioto
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, top, middle, bottom chord boards on both sides of diags

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 373

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Patent #: 141293

Author(s): Frederick Schwatka

Date Issued: July 29, 1873

Location:
Town: North Platte
County: Lincoln
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, arrangement, and top chord & diag construction

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 13

Database ID Number: 374

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Patent #: 141310

Author(s): Charles Bender and Charles H. Latrobe and C. Shaler Smith

Date Issued: July 29, 1873

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever br designs balanced not by vert load at ends, but by horiz ties into rock

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21
3rd: 25

Database ID Number: 375

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Patent #: 141458

Author(s): Jacob D. Pierce

Date Issued: August 5, 1873

Location:
Town: Columbia
County: Boone
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
curvacious cantilever / susp br. ~ looks very weak in shear

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 26

Database ID Number: 376

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Patent #: 142378

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: September 2, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, multi-tubed, deck truss for stiffness, spreads towards piers to resist wind

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 377

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Patent #: 142379

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: September 2, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, like 142,378 but w/ trussed spandrels to elim falsewk, expandable keystone

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 378

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Patent #: 142380

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: September 2, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., trussed 3-hinged arch built on bank and pivoted over river

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 2
3rd: 24

Database ID Number: 379

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Patent #: 142381

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: September 2, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, iron, 3-hinged, each half a lenticular truss

Classifications:
Prime: 25
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 380

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Patent #: 142382

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: September 2, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. for arch bridge, including helical anchors

Classifications:
Prime: 26

Database ID Number: 381

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Patent #: 142776

Author(s): James R. Durfee

Date Issued: September 16, 1873

Location:
Town: Oshkosh
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, segmental, wood or metal, joining mechanism

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 25

Database ID Number: 382

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Patent #: 142785

Author(s): J. M. Godwin

Date Issued: September 16, 1873

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, inefficient design

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 383

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Patent #: 143125

Author(s): B. F. Davis

Date Issued: September 23, 1873

Location:
Town: Hearne
County: Robertson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, laminated wood, sunrise "diagonal" patten

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 384

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Patent #: 143788

Author(s): E. W. Serrell and E. W., Jr Serrell

Date Issued: October 21, 1873

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., eyebar saddle atop tower, chains farther apart at towers than midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 385

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Patent #: 144519

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: November 11, 1873

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, multispan, prestress deck in compr full-length to keep longit load from piers

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 386

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Patent #: 144751

Author(s): James W. Evans

Date Issued: November 18, 1873

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring to strengthen girder, no diags, wire rope core for tubular bottom chord

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 387

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Patent #: 144766

Author(s): Phelps Johnson

Date Issued: November 18, 1873

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, heavy twin-tube arch

Comments By Nathan Holth, Bridge Historian
Phelps Johnson later worked with the Dominion Bridge Company and invented the K-Truss configuration for the Quebec Bridge.

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 388

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Patent #: 145114

Author(s): Jacob H. Linville

Date Issued: December 2, 1873

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for metal trusses, especially for tubular verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 389

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Patent #: 145545

Author(s): John Zellweger

Date Issued: December 16, 1873

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, compr members = angles, bars or T's held in place by spiral straps

Classifications:
Prime: 52/651.08

Database ID Number: 390

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Patent #: 145685

Author(s): Arnold Reiling

Date Issued: December 16, 1873

Location:
Town: Bellevue
County: Jackson
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, metal fittings for wood king-post truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15
3rd: 52/639

Database ID Number: 391

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Patent #: 146034

Author(s): James Valleley

Date Issued: December 30, 1873

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, iron, built-up hollow 4-sided trapezoidal tube for arch

Classifications:
Prime: 25
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 392

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Patent #: 146332

Author(s): B. F. Graham

Date Issued: January 13, 1874

Location:
Town: San Jose
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, pony Howe, crossed "vertical" rods keep truss plumb

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 393

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Patent #: 146397

Author(s): Richard Long

Date Issued: January 13, 1874

Location:
Town: Stelapolis
County: Iowa
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, laminated wood arch, shingles for weather protection

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 394

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Patent #: 146400

Author(s): John A. Patterson and Andrew J. Sprague

Date Issued: January 13, 1874

Location:
Town: Toledo
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, etc. for combin Howe truss with wrought iron lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 395

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Patent #: 146425

Author(s): Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: January 13, 1874

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn at top of diagonals in a metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 396

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Patent #: 146863

Author(s): Adolphus Bonzano

Date Issued: January 27, 1874

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 104/46

Database ID Number: 397

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Patent #: 146916

Author(s): William R. Laird

Date Issued: January 27, 1874

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, built-up octagonal arch rib, end-conn of arch and lwr chord

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 398

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Patent #: 147011

Author(s): Charles Kellogg

Date Issued: February 3, 1874

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Erie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, of two I-beams bent 90 deg. at mid-height of web

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.8

Database ID Number: 399

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Patent #: 147775

Author(s): David Klein

Date Issued: February 24, 1874

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br. having 2-float sections rigidly connected together, and elevated road

Classifications:
Prime: 30

Database ID Number: 400

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Patent #: 148010

Author(s): Jonathan Wall and Zimri Wall

Date Issued: February 24, 1874

Location:
Town: Wilmington
County: Clinton
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, arch = 3 parallel longit. plates connected by slanted bolts

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 401

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Patent #: 149965

Author(s): C. W. Wheeler

Date Issued: April 21, 1874

Location:
Town: Brownsville
County: Not Listed
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, tubular iron membr for arch or truss br, has straight plate through center

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.2
2nd: 74/519

Database ID Number: 402

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Patent #: 150151

Author(s): David Hammond and Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 28, 1874

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, parallel chord metal pony truss, and connections

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 403

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Patent #: 150152

Author(s): David Hammond and Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 28, 1874

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, parallel chord metal pony truss, and connections

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 404

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Patent #: 150153

Author(s): David Hammond and Job Abbott

Date Issued: April 28, 1874

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal bedstead pony truss, and connections

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 405

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Patent #: 150327

Author(s): F. E. Josel

Date Issued: April 28, 1874

Location:
Town: Freeport
County: Stephenson
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch with open spandrals filled with lattice-work

Classifications:
Prime: 25
2nd: 6

Database ID Number: 406

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Patent #: 150515

Author(s): Ova H. Bogardus

Date Issued: May 5, 1874

Location:
Town: Durhamville
County: Oneida
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Howe/Pratt with curved tubular top chord & diags good for tension & compr

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 407

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Patent #: 152489

Author(s): Edward Hemberle

Date Issued: June 30, 1874

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal Warren with curved end posts, and conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 408

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Patent #: 152625

Author(s): R. H. Gilbert

Date Issued: June 30, 1874

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR above streets, which piers arch over, shields keep debris from street

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 409

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Patent #: 152793

Author(s): Walter G. Coolidge and Edward Hemberle

Date Issued: July 7, 1874

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for truss upper chord panel points

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 410

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Patent #: 153170

Author(s): Charles Kellogg

Date Issued: July 21, 1874

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Erie
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, of four iron channels curved 90 deg. through web

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.4

Database ID Number: 411

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Patent #: 153483

Author(s): David Hammond and Michael Adler

Date Issued: July 28, 1874

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Starke
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier & abutment using Phoenix columns & wood or cast iron panels

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 76

Database ID Number: 412

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Patent #: 153540

Author(s): Solon Conklin

Date Issued: July 28, 1874

Location:
Town: Kirkwood
County: Broome
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss that can carry liquids (pipeline) ~ looks like a fence gate

Classifications:
Prime: 12

Database ID Number: 413

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Patent #: 153710

Author(s): J. M. Hannahs

Date Issued: August 4, 1874

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR, expansion joint for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 414

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Patent #: 154055

Author(s): John Lawler

Date Issued: August 11, 1874

Location:
Town: Prairie du Chien
County: Crawford
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, pivoted, swinging designs, float extends full-length of br

Classifications:
Prime: 29

Database ID Number: 415

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Patent #: 154644

Author(s): Andrew Burneson

Date Issued: September 1, 1874

Location:
Town: Mansfield
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron angles above & below a horiz plate = arch w/ diamond cross-sect

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 416

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Patent #: 155634

Author(s): J. B. Bausman

Date Issued: October 6, 1874

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck, upside-down bowstring using cables for "arch"

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 417

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Patent #: 156936

Author(s): J. L. Miner

Date Issued: November 17, 1874

Location:
Town: Brenham
County: Washingtn
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, pony, poor excuse for diagonals, lat bracing ties in wrong place

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 418

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Patent #: 158197

Author(s): Leffert L. Buck

Date Issued: December 29, 1874

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss with susp catenary from ends of top chord, helping truss every 2 panel pts

Classifications:
Prime: 11

Database ID Number: 419

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Patent #: 158347

Author(s): J. B. Winters

Date Issued: December 29, 1874

Location:
Town: Attica
County: Lapeer
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for truss sway bracing and rods to hold bridge down on pier caps

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 420

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Patent #: 159046

Author(s): Edward S. Shaw

Date Issued: January 26, 1875

Location:
Town: Cambridge
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, deform eyebars around pin holes, & clamp tight for undiminished strength

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 421

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Patent #: 159084

Author(s): Edwin I. Farnsworth

Date Issued: January 26, 1875

Location:
Town: Leavenworth
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, classic design, 2 channels + top cover plate for arch

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 422

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Patent #: 159305

Author(s): John B. Cornell

Date Issued: February 2, 1875

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Column, much like a Phoenix Column

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 423

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Patent #: 159315

Author(s): P. M. Fulton

Date Issued: February 2, 1875

Location:
Town: Rhinebeck
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed arch ! with road suspended from arch

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 424

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Patent #: 160650

Author(s): John B. Cornell

Date Issued: March 9, 1875

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR above streets, piers & other parts for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 425

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Patent #: 160831

Author(s): Lorenz Lotz

Date Issued: March 16, 1875

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev. RR, piers to support over street, cable-stayed girders

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123

Database ID Number: 426

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Patent #: 160938

Author(s): John Milroy and J. W. Butler

Date Issued: March 16, 1875

Location:
Town: Edinburgh
County: North Britain
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, circular cofferdams of stacked ring-segments

Classifications:
Prime: 77.3
2nd: 405/228

Database ID Number: 427

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Patent #: 162045

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: April 13, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br, brg seat: weighted hydrostatic ram to exert constant force on ends of arch

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 428

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Patent #: 162077

Author(s): Charles Kellogg

Date Issued: April 13, 1875

Location:
Town: Athens
County: Bradford
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, improved truss pins

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 411/389

Database ID Number: 429

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Patent #: 162357

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: April 20, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
multispan tied arches, levered end-conn to reduce load in ties, let abut take some

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 430

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Patent #: 162751

Author(s): Carl L. Horack

Date Issued: May 4, 1875

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR above streets, economic way to build, and to prevent derailments

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 238/17

Database ID Number: 431

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Patent #: 162768

Author(s): Henry F. Rice and James M. Rice and William B. Rice

Date Issued: May 4, 1875

Location:
Town: Dubuque
County: Dubuque
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge that swings sideways to open

Classifications:
Prime: 30
2nd: 28

Database ID Number: 432

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Patent #: 163188

Author(s): James M. Hannahs

Date Issued: May 11, 1875

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, girders that also act as guardrail

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 433

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Patent #: 163189

Author(s): James M. Hannahs

Date Issued: May 11, 1875

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR girders also act as guardrail, ties rest on lwr flange & fit in holes in webs

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 404/1

Database ID Number: 434

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Patent #: 163854

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: June 1, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. for arch bridge, anchor chain like that of susp br. to spread arch thrust

Classifications:
Prime: 26

Database ID Number: 435

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Patent #: 164136

Author(s): Alexander Brown

Date Issued: June 8, 1875

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Cuyahoga
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, of several discarded RR rails held together by clamps

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.7

Database ID Number: 436

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Patent #: 164137

Author(s): A. E. Brown

Date Issued: June 8, 1875

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column built-up compression members for truss, from 3 or 4 RR rails

Classifications:
Prime: 52/651.07
2nd: 75
3rd: 52/731.8

Database ID Number: 437

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Patent #: 164349

Author(s): Jonathan Wall

Date Issued: June 8, 1875

Location:
Town: Wilmington
County: Clinton
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, arch =top, bot & middle plates conn by micro-truss of bolts & castings

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 438

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Patent #: 164511

Author(s): Henry Barton

Date Issued: June 15, 1875

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, prefab, vertical rods hold diagonals in their seats

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 439

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Patent #: 165906

Author(s): J. G. Wilson

Date Issued: July 20, 1875

Location:
Town: Millerton
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable-stayed bridge for elevated RR

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 440

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Patent #: 166042

Author(s): James Valleley

Date Issued: July 27, 1875

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, arch = 2 parallel longit. plates connected by slanting plates

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 441

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Patent #: 166387

Author(s): Walter Katte

Date Issued: August 3, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, splice plates for hollow octagonal columns in truss bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 442

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Patent #: 166930

Author(s): W. R. King

Date Issued: August 24, 1875

Location:
Town: Willets Pt.
County: Queens
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
resist movement using hydraulic pistons. Seems specious. Shock-absorbers?

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 443

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Patent #: 166960

Author(s): W. M. Black

Date Issued: August 24, 1875

Location:
Town: Lancaster
County: Fairfield
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss with susp catenary in it, anchored at ends of top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 11
2nd: 74

Database ID Number: 444

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Patent #: 167179

Author(s): Charles H. Leidy

Date Issued: August 13, 1875

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, round, from 4 quarter-rounds w/ air gaps, held by clips

Classifications:
Prime: 52/651.07
2nd: 138/158
3rd: 138/160

Database ID Number: 445

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Patent #: 167179

Author(s): Charles Leidy

Date Issued: August 12, 1875

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Chester
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, Phoenix Column w/ "improved" clamping-joining

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 446

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Patent #: 167253

Author(s): J. F. Hume

Date Issued: August 31, 1875

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
piers from interlocking cast iron plates, like thick sheet piling. claims the interlock

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 405/231

Database ID Number: 447

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Patent #: 168260

Author(s): Moritz Lassig

Date Issued: September 28, 1875

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
weather protection, corrugated metal roof for top chords of wood truss

Classifications:
Prime: 74
2nd: 4

Database ID Number: 448

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Patent #: 169791

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: November 9, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, improvem't on 142,381, end piers braced by extended arches w/ thrust blks

Classifications:
Prime: 26

Database ID Number: 449

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Patent #: 170650

Author(s): Mitchell Vincent

Date Issued: November 30, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Paul
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge that swings sideways to open

Classifications:
Prime: 29
2nd: 28

Database ID Number: 450

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Patent #: 171323

Author(s): Friedrich Schmemann

Date Issued: December 21, 1875

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, unique design, compr membrs =concentric tubes, conn

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 451

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Patent #: 171722

Author(s): H. H. Gorringe

Date Issued: January 4, 1876

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge that swings sideways to open

Classifications:
Prime: 29
2nd: 28

Database ID Number: 452

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Patent #: 173361

Author(s): Alonzo Spaulding

Date Issued: February 8, 1876

Location:
Town: Cedar Falls
County: Black Hawk
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
weather protect chords of wood truss w/ fitted sheet metal covering, like flashing

Classifications:
Prime: 74

Database ID Number: 453

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Patent #: 173863

Author(s): Joseph M. McDonald

Date Issued: February 22, 1876

Location:
Town: Tomlinson
County: Scott
State: AR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, king post on sides, arches under road, iron rod for bot chord

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 454

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Patent #: 174120

Author(s): Solon Conklin

Date Issued: February 29, 1876

Location:
Town: Kirkwood
County: Broome
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, a crude lenticular with "lightness, beauty & strength" in author's opinion

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 15
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 455

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Patent #: 174510

Author(s): T. C. Fidler

Date Issued: March 7, 1876

Location:
Town: Emberton
County: Bucks
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. using 2 chains w/ X-brace betwn. Also a 3-hinged arch like Salginatobel

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 25

Database ID Number: 456

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Patent #: 174554

Author(s): Samuel Mills

Date Issued: March 7, 1876

Location:
Town: New Castle
County: Coshocton
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier of iron facing segments post-tensioned to footing, & filled with masonry

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 76
3rd: 405/251

Database ID Number: 457

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Patent #: 175150

Author(s): Daniel M. Pfautz

Date Issued: March 21, 1876

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
extendable "flying bridge" on lazy-tongs principle

Classifications:
Prime: 45
2nd: 71.1
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 458

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Patent #: 175158

Author(s): C. Pontez

Date Issued: March 21, 1876

Location:
Town: Omaha
County: Not Listed
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, excavation method

Classifications:
Prime: 405/8
2nd: 405/195.1

Database ID Number: 459

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Patent #: 175165

Author(s): John J. Reicherts

Date Issued: March 21, 1876

Location:
Town: Delaware
County: Delaware
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch using many short wood or iron segments compressed by tension cables

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 460

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Patent #: 176806

Author(s): John W. Post

Date Issued: May 2, 1876

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck, using iron tubes, inverted A-frame w/ verts but no diags, odd tube pier

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 461

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Patent #: 176991

Author(s): Charles S. Palmer

Date Issued: February 29, 1876

Location:
Town: Stroudsburg
County: Monroe
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, metal shoes for combin truss, design permits easy member replacement

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 462

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Patent #: 179964

Author(s): Lewis Scott

Date Issued: July 18, 1876

Location:
Town: Brighton
County: Livingston
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier of many small posts forming a lattice parallel to flow

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 256/19

Database ID Number: 463

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Patent #: 183160

Author(s): C. P. Haughian

Date Issued: October 10, 1876

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
composite iron-steel beams, struts & columns -the 2 mat'ls forge welded together

Classifications:
Prime: 428/598
2nd: 52/731.2
3rd: 52/737.6
4th: 428/594

Database ID Number: 464

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Patent #: 183291

Author(s): Josiah Foster

Date Issued: October 17, 1876

Location:
Town: Honesdale
County: Wayne
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge using several tubular beams with truss-work structure inside the tubes

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 465

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Patent #: 184490

Author(s): Job Abbott

Date Issued: November 21, 1876

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, subdivided panels (diags) ~ assigned to Wrought Iron Br Co

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 62/244
3rd: 62/297
4th: 62/427

Database ID Number: 466

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Patent #: 184520

Author(s): David Hammond and Henry G. Morse and Job Abbott

Date Issued: November 21, 1876

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Primary Associated Bridge Company:
Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio

General Category or Bridge Type:
Metal Truss

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pratt with double-intersect'n counters to give mid-ht lateral support to posts

Comments By Nathan Holth, Bridge Historian
This patent is referenced on many bridge plaques by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company.

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 467

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Patent #: 184888

Author(s): Peter Munzinger

Date Issued: November 28, 1876

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, pins to connect eyebars

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 468

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Patent #: 185185

Author(s): W. H. Miller

Date Issued: December 12, 1876

Location:
Town: Curwensville
County: Clearfield
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, panels of big octagonal iron rings clamped to chords. WHM can't count to 8

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 469

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Patent #: 187513

Author(s): Ellery E. Colby

Date Issued: February 20, 1877

Location:
Town: Groton
County: Tompkins
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring where arch is bent only at panel pts. 1/2 assignd to Avery,Bartholomew

Classifications:
Prime: 52/639
2nd: 13
3rd: 14
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 470

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Patent #: 188107

Author(s): Lyman W. Densmore

Date Issued: March 6, 1877

Location:
Town: St. Joseph
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
connecting round lower chord rods of truss at panel pts

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 471

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Patent #: 188678

Author(s): Thomas Ruick

Date Issued: March 20, 1877

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, improved lower chord panel pt. conn for metal truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 472

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Patent #: 189020

Author(s): E. E. Colby

Date Issued: April 3, 1877

Location:
Town: Groton
County: Tompkins
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, pile-bent, using RR rails driven down like piles

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 473

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Patent #: 189170

Author(s): Oliver, Jr Avery and Caleb Bartholomew

Date Issued: April 3, 1877

Location:
Town: Groton
County: Tompkins
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring from old RR rails, bearing seat-end conn details

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 474

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Patent #: 189171

Author(s): Oliver, Jr Avery and Caleb Bartholomew

Date Issued: April 3, 1877

Location:
Town: Groton
County: Tompkins
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, from RR rails, caps & connections

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 405/218
3rd: 405/228

Database ID Number: 475

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Patent #: 190437

Author(s): William Irelan

Date Issued: May 8, 1877

Location:
Town: Oak Springs
County: Davis
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, questionable, for 2-timber wood beams, and an inefficient truss

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 476

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Patent #: 190562

Author(s): R. H. Davies

Date Issued: May 8, 1877

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, doubled endposts to help it survive RR crashes

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 477

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Patent #: 190921

Author(s): J. H. Snyder

Date Issued: May 15, 1877

Location:
Town: Richmond
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, very heavy

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 238/26

Database ID Number: 478

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Patent #: 191552

Author(s): E. S. Sherman

Date Issued: June 5, 1877

Location:
Town: Galena
County: Delaware
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, two-panel bedstead Pratt, unimpressive

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 479

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Patent #: 192450

Author(s): Thomas Mullin

Date Issued: June 26, 1877

Location:
Town: Millersburg
County: Iowa
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
weatherproofing detail for wood truss

Classifications:
Prime: 73

Database ID Number: 480

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Patent #: 194717

Author(s): R. B. Osborne

Date Issued: August 28, 1877

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: New Castle
State: DE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
adding Howe & Pratt trusses, + an arch, to susp bridge = fancy wds for "cantilever"

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 14
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 481

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Patent #: 196154

Author(s): G. E. King

Date Issued: October 16, 1877

Location:
Town: Des Moines
County: Not Listed
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn at top chord of a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 482

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Patent #: 197286

Author(s): R. B. Osborne

Date Issued: November 20, 1877

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: New Castle
State: DE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch shallow arch as bottom chord of a truss, but arch-ends are on rollers !

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 6
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 483

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Patent #: 198580

Author(s): John P. Derr

Date Issued: December 25, 1877

Location:
Town: Mercer
County: Mercer
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoe for a wood truss

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 484

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Patent #: 200969

Author(s): Alexander Brandon

Date Issued: March 5, 1878

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, arched beams for, connections for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 238/17

Database ID Number: 485

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Patent #: 201860

Author(s): M. H. Alberger

Date Issued: April 2, 1878

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, eyebar made from structural T

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 486

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Patent #: 202526

Author(s): William O. Douglas

Date Issued: April 16, 1878

Location:
Town: Binghamton
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular

Classifications:
Prime: 12
2nd: 6
3rd: 32
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 487

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Patent #: 204407

Author(s): Benezette Williams

Date Issued: May 28, 1878

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., 1 end fixed, other floats, self-adjusting uniform-grade road between

Classifications:
Prime: 28
2nd: 71.1

Database ID Number: 488

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Patent #: 205799

Author(s): William Irelan

Date Issued: July 9, 1878

Location:
Town: Oak Springs
County: Davis
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss where members may be easily replaced ~ it's a mess

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 4
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 489

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Patent #: 207228

Author(s): Edward Wasell

Date Issued: August 20, 1878

Location:
Town: Digby
County: Nova Scotia
State: Can

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, twin columns of several RR rails each, conn & bracing for, helical anchors

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 490

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Patent #: 208155

Author(s): G. W. Cooley

Date Issued: September 17, 1878

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, Cooley's own design, built-up wood post at midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 491

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Patent #: 210754

Author(s): Solon Conklin

Date Issued: December 10, 1878

Location:
Town: Kirkwood
County: Broome
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, "double hip-arch truss", sort of a clueless lenticular

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 182/217

Database ID Number: 492

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Patent #: 210864

Author(s): Louis Laubscher

Date Issued: December 17, 1878

Location:
Town: Ft. Wayne
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
load testing bridges using a water tank on deck

Classifications:
Prime: 73/786
2nd: 78

Database ID Number: 493

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Patent #: 212748

Author(s): A. J. Ross

Date Issued: February 25, 1879

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Monroe
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp cable to help truss bridge at span's third pts ~ weights tension the cable

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 494

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Patent #: 212941

Author(s): Philip Jarvis

Date Issued: March 4, 1879

Location:
Town: Mt. Ayr
County: Ringgold
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with complicated diagonals, wood arch

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 495

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Patent #: 213154

Author(s): Edgar Williams

Date Issued: March 11, 1879

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron-rod bottom chord for Howe

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 496

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Patent #: 215223

Author(s): S. R. Holt

Date Issued: May 13, 1879

Location:
Town: Worthington
County: Franklin
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, various braces, wedge in top chord at midspan to camber

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 52/639

Database ID Number: 497

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Patent #: 215364

Author(s): John E. Jayne

Date Issued: May 13, 1879

Location:
Town: Iowa City
County: Johnson
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring (wood arch w/ metal covering) with tension rods inside tubular verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 498

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Patent #: 215522

Author(s): Reuben Hoover

Date Issued: May 20, 1879

Location:
Town: Iowa City
County: Johnson
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with complicated diagonals, lam. wood arch, very similar to 212,941

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 499

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Patent #: 217409

Author(s): J. W. Riley

Date Issued: July 8, 1879

Location:
Town: Hollidaysburg
County: Blair
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, a rough, clueless design: tension rod "helps" top chord carry compression

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 500

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Patent #: 217925

Author(s): Bethel Burton

Date Issued: July 29, 1879

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, enclosed to reduce noise

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/138.1

Database ID Number: 501

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Patent #: 219846

Author(s): August Borneman

Date Issued: September 23, 1879

Location:
Town: Lancaster
County: Fairfield
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, small bedstead Pratt, links for lwr chd conn, "4 men can erect 40-ftr in 4 hrs"

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 502

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Patent #: 220382

Author(s): William Irelan

Date Issued: October 7, 1879

Location:
Town: Oak Springs
County: Davis
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combin, overly complex, adjustable to permit membr replacemt. 14 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 503

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Patent #: 221632

Author(s): R. B. Vardell

Date Issued: November 11, 1879

Location:
Town: Dardanelle
County: Yell
State: AR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, wood, uses many short pieces called "balks" joined to make arch

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 504

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Patent #: 222375

Author(s): Dudley Blanchard

Date Issued: December 9, 1879

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 104/46

Database ID Number: 505

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Patent #: 222488

Author(s): Albert E. Hall

Date Issued: December 9, 1879

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., between shore & dredge to move material, levers to raise ends

Classifications:
Prime: 28

Database ID Number: 506

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Patent #: 222499

Author(s): Benjamin Houts

Date Issued: December 9, 1879

Location:
Town: Junction City
County: Davis
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, sort of like a Bollman except convoluted & really mixed up

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 507

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Patent #: 224491

Author(s): Mark Sullivan and Jacob Kessler and Josiah R. Foster

Date Issued: February 10, 1880

Location:
Town: Dubuque
County: Not Listed
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood king-post & queen-post (oops, no diags), deck angles down at ends

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 15
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 508

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Patent #: 224567

Author(s): Francis A. Williams

Date Issued: February 17, 1880

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, single-column pier for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 509

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Patent #: 224568

Author(s): F. A. Williams

Date Issued: February 17, 1880

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, iron, for elevated RR

Classifications:
Prime: 52/292
2nd: 52/737.1

Database ID Number: 510

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Patent #: 224677

Author(s): R. W. Gorrill

Date Issued: February 17, 1880

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combin, unique layout, fancy but flawed conn

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 13
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 511

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Patent #: 227068

Author(s): Antes Snyder

Date Issued: April 27, 1880

Location:
Town: Johnstown
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br & cable-stayed structures loosely connected to work together

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 236/68B

Database ID Number: 512

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Patent #: 227747

Author(s): G. M. Fenley

Date Issued: May 18, 1880

Location:
Town: Medora
County: Jackson
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, drift wheel = vertical rotating drum on nose to shed drift

Classifications:
Prime: 405/211

Database ID Number: 513

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Patent #: 228055

Author(s): Rufus H. Gilbert

Date Issued: May 25, 1880

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR bridge, pier that supports it above street

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 404/1

Database ID Number: 514

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Patent #: 230185

Author(s): Abraham Gottlieb

Date Issued: July 20, 1880

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, to keep forces centered on truss centerline

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 515

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Patent #: 230410

Author(s): Peter Fischer

Date Issued: July 27, 1880

Location:
Town: Crawfordsville
County: Montgomery
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
guardrail, side-guides to keep RR cars on track & not hit bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 78

Database ID Number: 516

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Patent #: 230929

Author(s): Ephraim Dixon

Date Issued: August 10, 1880

Location:
Town: Evergreen
County: Conecuh
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, wood, woven like the Chinese Rainbow bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 517

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Patent #: 230933

Author(s): William, Jr Fryer

Date Issued: August 10, 1880

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch girder, cast iron, for buildings

Classifications:
Prime: 52/640
2nd: 9

Database ID Number: 518

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Patent #: 231383

Author(s): C. W. Wheeler

Date Issued: August 17, 1880

Location:
Town: Brownville
County: Nemaha
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, end panel geometry for Warren, to reduce cost

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 519

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Patent #: 237471

Author(s): Sylvester Bissell

Date Issued: February 8, 1881

Location:
Town: Hartford
County: Not Listed
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br, stone, iron ties embedded in and above arch ring prevent thrust at abutmts

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 520

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Patent #: 238130

Author(s): R De T. Lawrence

Date Issued: February 22, 1881

Location:
Town: Chicamauga
County: Not Listed
State: TN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss braced with wire rope ties

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 11

Database ID Number: 521

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Patent #: 241179

Author(s): W. C. Allison

Date Issued: May 10, 1881

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch to support electric wires, urban, not really a "bridge"

Classifications:
Prime: 174/45R
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 522

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Patent #: 241763

Author(s): Johnathan Wall

Date Issued: May 17, 1881

Location:
Town: Circleville
County: Pickaway
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, pin with eccentrics (like a crankshaft) to equalize forces in bar-pairs

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 523

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Patent #: 241919

Author(s): A. W. Brenner

Date Issued: May 24, 1881

Location:
Town: Coleman
County: Coleman
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, wood, stiffening truss, span extended with midspan inverted king-post truss

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 25

Database ID Number: 524

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Patent #: 242396

Author(s): Edwin Thacher

Date Issued: May 31, 1881

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, improved truss forms ~ Great list of typical truss deficiencies

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 525

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Patent #: 245034

Author(s): Hector Von Bayer

Date Issued: August 2, 1881

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable-stayed br., much like a Bollman Truss, but leaning towers & roadwy is strut

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 526

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Patent #: 245412

Author(s): Charles F. Smith

Date Issued: August 9, 1881

Location:
Town: Jacksonville
County: Not Listed
State: FL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
midspan cam & rods to reduce asymmetric defl of truss & arch ~ but will it work?

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 24

Database ID Number: 527

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Patent #: 249038

Author(s): Hugh C. Groves

Date Issued: November 1, 1881

Location:
Town: Emerson
County: Mills
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with complicated diagonals, lam. wood arch, very similar to 215,522

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 528

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Patent #: 250921

Author(s): J. H. Ibel

Date Issued: December 13, 1881

Location:
Town: Marshall
County: Harrison
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, doubled, one within the other, to facilitate construction

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 529

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Patent #: 252487

Author(s): John B. McPherson

Date Issued: January 17, 1882

Location:
Town: Bunker Hill
County: Macoupin
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, overdesigned king-post truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 530

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Patent #: 254978

Author(s): William Irelan

Date Issued: March 14, 1882

Location:
Town: Oak Springs
County: Davis
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combin., with many adjustments (wedges, eccentric pins, etc), see 220,382

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 531

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Patent #: 256478

Author(s): H. J. Harrison

Date Issued: April 18, 1882

Location:
Town: Liverpool
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
columns and girders made of iron plates surrounding wood core

Classifications:
Prime: 52/737.3
2nd: 74.5

Database ID Number: 532

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Patent #: 257034

Author(s): L. E. Mansfield and M. D. Moore

Date Issued: April 25, 1882

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123

Database ID Number: 533

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Patent #: 263088

Author(s): Norman Allen

Date Issued: August 22, 1882

Location:
Town: Rockaway Beach
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, single-column pier for

Classifications:
Prime: 52/295
2nd: 104/125

Database ID Number: 534

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Patent #: 263333

Author(s): Solomon H. Godman

Date Issued: August 29, 1882

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination Pratt with special conn, sheet metal covering for wood top chd

Classifications:
Prime: 11
2nd: 74
3rd: 52/639

Database ID Number: 535

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Patent #: 264220

Author(s): Thomas Barland

Date Issued: September 12, 1882

Location:
Town: Eau Claire
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, post tensioned segmental beam, cables run through holes in segements

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 536

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Patent #: 264724

Author(s): Joseph Maish

Date Issued: September 19, 1882

Location:
Town: Iowa City
County: Johnson
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for bowstring where each arch = 2 side-by-side tubes

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 537

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Patent #: 265321

Author(s): Peter H. Jackson

Date Issued: October 3, 1882

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, cast iron, 4-hinged arch with no diags. "improvement" of his 1871 patent

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 538

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Patent #: 265331

Author(s): William Litell

Date Issued: October 3, 1882

Location:
Town: Boise City
County: Ada
State: ID terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, verts & chords formed of multiple small strips, lattice-like diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 539

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Patent #: 266658

Author(s): D. E. Teal

Date Issued: October 31, 1882

Location:
Town: Oneida Castle
County: Oneida
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle, prefab, quickly erected and removed

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 182/182

Database ID Number: 540

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Patent #: 267189

Author(s): Solomon H Godman

Date Issued: November 7, 1882

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for a combination Pratt truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 403/292

Database ID Number: 541

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Patent #: 268309

Author(s): Ebenezer Stephens

Date Issued: November 28, 1882

Location:
Town: Humboldt
County: Richardson
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating bridge, wood, floats up during floods, posts to guide & hold it

Classifications:
Prime: 28

Database ID Number: 542

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Patent #: 271425

Author(s): G. W. Cook

Date Issued: January 30, 1883

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR, crude, with much sag in roadway

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 104/155

Database ID Number: 543

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Patent #: 272568

Author(s): D. B. Matlock

Date Issued: February 20, 1883

Location:
Town: Millville
County: Shasta
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for a combination Howe truss with iron lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 544

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Patent #: 276878

Author(s): L. T. Pyott

Date Issued: May 1, 1883

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, single big tubular girder with flanges on ea side for car wheels

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 138/103
3rd: 174/40R

Database ID Number: 545

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Patent #: 279927

Author(s): C. E. Emery

Date Issued: June 26, 1883

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
levers at piers of continuous girders, allows therml expansn but carries neg mom

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 546

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Patent #: 282024

Author(s): John W. Young

Date Issued: July 24, 1883

Location:
Town: Ft. Moroni
County: Yavapai
State: AZ Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
guardrail, bridge railing made from taut cables, for safe RR bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 19

Database ID Number: 547

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Patent #: 282697

Author(s): J. H. Bonn and Alfred DeBevoise

Date Issued: August 7, 1883

Location:
Town: Weehawken
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for trestle-bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 548

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Patent #: 283730

Author(s): S. M. Wickersham

Date Issued: August 21, 1883

Location:
Town: Allegheny
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebar, method of making

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 72/379.2

Database ID Number: 549

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Patent #: 285257

Author(s): T. M. Griffith

Date Issued: September 18, 1883

Location:
Town: Arlington
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br, from small transportable pipes (with cable-stays)

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 550

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Patent #: 287974

Author(s): I. A. Sprague

Date Issued: November 6, 1883

Location:
Town: Glenwood
County: Mills
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring with odd "stay rod" and diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 10

Database ID Number: 551

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Patent #: 290054

Author(s): W. J. Holman

Date Issued: December 11, 1883

Location:
Town: Ft. Wayne
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, weak-looking design using diamond-shaped membrs to shed water

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 552

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Patent #: 293427

Author(s): Chauncey Dibble

Date Issued: February 12, 1884

Location:
Town: Farmington
County: VanBuren
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, big camber, diagonals independent from verts ~ bad

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 553

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Patent #: 294606

Author(s): M. C. Frits

Date Issued: March 4, 1884

Location:
Town: La Harpe
County: Hancock
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for an X-braced combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 554

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Patent #: 295727

Author(s): A. E. Brown

Date Issued: March 25, 1884

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for aerial tram for materials transport

Classifications:
Prime: 104/107
2nd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 555

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Patent #: 296313

Author(s): A. B. Burton

Date Issued: April 8, 1884

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, two columns, cross bracing dropped down over cols & attached w/o divers

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 556

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Patent #: 297479

Author(s): Gustav Wegner

Date Issued: April 22, 1884

Location:
Town: Berlin
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., curvaceous, trussed cables to reduce wind effects, nice

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: D8/382
3rd: D8/499

Database ID Number: 557

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Patent #: 301871

Author(s): A. S. Drisko

Date Issued: July 15, 1884

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, beams have semi-circle x-section & much internal bracing

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 558

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Patent #: 306694

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: October 14, 1884

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, continuous, way to pre-set unchanging negative mom at piers & ease calcs

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 559

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Patent #: 307770

Author(s): William Irelan

Date Issued: November 11, 1884

Location:
Town: Oak Springs
County: Davis
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, self-adjusting coupling for truss chords

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 560

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Patent #: 307896

Author(s): John F. Anderson

Date Issued: November 11, 1884

Location:
Town: New Orleans
County: Not Listed
State: LA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge for RR, main span is a truss

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 104/125

Database ID Number: 561

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Patent #: 308501

Author(s): Max Kersten

Date Issued: November 25, 1884

Location:
Town: Shepherdsville
County: Bullitt
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, partly braced beam, Kersten did not waste time learning laws of statics

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 562

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Patent #: 308825

Author(s): Edward M. Butz

Date Issued: December 2, 1884

Location:
Town: Allegheny
County: Allegheny
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, of 4 bent plates to make a hollow, square, longitudinally fluted col

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159
2nd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 563

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Patent #: 309063

Author(s): Charles H. Kellogg

Date Issued: December 9, 1884

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, shallow, using bent I-beam

Classifications:
Prime: 52/640
2nd: 9
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 564

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Patent #: 309171

Author(s): C. L. Strobel

Date Issued: December 9, 1884

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trusses, multispan, illustrates why engrs should be kept away from french curves

Classifications:
Prime: 12
2nd: 6
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 565

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Patent #: 309289

Author(s): G. W. Blackman and T. G., Jr Blackman

Date Issued: December 16, 1884

Location:
Town: Ozark
County: Dale
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, uses wire rope for lower chord

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 566

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Patent #: 310747

Author(s): Edwin Thacher

Date Issued: January 13, 1885

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, oddly subdivided to eliminate thermal stress

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 567

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Patent #: 311064

Author(s): B. F. Davis

Date Issued: January 20, 1885

Location:
Town: Corsicana
County: Navarro
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever bridge, truss configuration

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 568

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Patent #: 311338

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: January 27, 1885

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed cable system, conn & bearings to equalize load in both cables

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22
3rd: 73.5
4th: 26

Database ID Number: 569

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Patent #: 311624

Author(s): E. A. Werner

Date Issued: February 3, 1885

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, metal, 3-hinged, stiffened by trussing with compr top chord & tensile bot chd

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 570

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Patent #: 314247

Author(s): James Jenkinson

Date Issued: March 24, 1885

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, single trough-shaped girder filled with concrete to reduce noise

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 238/7

Database ID Number: 571

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Patent #: 314261

Author(s): George H. Pegram

Date Issued: March 24, 1885

Location:
Town: Wilmington
County: Not Listed
State: DE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pegram Truss patent, different than 314,262, but similar, 6 more claims

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 12

Database ID Number: 572

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Patent #: 314262

Author(s): George H. Pegram

Date Issued: March 24, 1885

Location:
Town: Wilmington
County: Not Listed
State: DE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pegram Truss = camelback w/ inclined verts for short compressn membrs

Classifications:
Prime: 12
2nd: 4
3rd: 7

Database ID Number: 573

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Patent #: 314728

Author(s): Friedrich Sohmemann

Date Issued: March 31, 1885

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular, intricate continuous truss design using tube members, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 14
3rd: 19

Database ID Number: 574

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Patent #: 314791

Author(s): David, Jr Brooks

Date Issued: March 31, 1885

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. to carry electric lines

Classifications:
Prime: 174/43
2nd: 20
3rd: 174/41

Database ID Number: 575

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Patent #: 314900

Author(s): S. T. Wilson

Date Issued: March 31, 1885

Location:
Town: Echo
County: Bell
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck, overly complicated and under-efficient, obtuse text

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 576

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Patent #: 315259

Author(s): William O. Douglas

Date Issued: April 7, 1885

Location:
Town: Binghamton
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular

Classifications:
Prime: 12
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 577

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Patent #: 318213

Author(s): W. F. Sherman

Date Issued: May 19, 1885

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, piers & girders for, composite wood-steel beams, cars hang below track

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94

Database ID Number: 578

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Patent #: 318626

Author(s): John H. Jones

Date Issued: May 26, 1885

Location:
Town: Clio
County: Not Listed
State: LA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, very complex system of diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 12
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 579

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Patent #: 319798

Author(s): John Dennis

Date Issued: June 9, 1885

Location:
Town: Oswego
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, with a shallow arch rib about mid-ht, for RR, with tar-filled conn

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 6
3rd: 14
4th: 74

Database ID Number: 580

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Patent #: 320859

Author(s): C. D. Dundas

Date Issued: June 23, 1885

Location:
Town: No. Auburn
County: Nemaha
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
flood bracing, iron rods hold truss to abutm't against flood forces

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 581

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Patent #: 325743

Author(s): Mathias Hettinger

Date Issued: September 8, 1885

Location:
Town: Freeport
County: Stephenson
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Not a normal bridge.. a frame pier to hold telegraph wires above street

Classifications:
Prime: 191/45R
2nd: 2

Database ID Number: 582

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Patent #: 327808

Author(s): John A. McDonald

Date Issued: October 6, 1885

Location:
Town: Sydney
County: NewS Wales
State: Aus

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearings ~ roller bearings

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 583

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Patent #: 328758

Author(s): Charles Carr and George Carr

Date Issued: October 20, 1885

Location:
Town: Sugar Tree Ridge
County: Highland
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, pony, wood, multiple king-post

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 13
3rd: 14
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 584

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Patent #: 328899

Author(s): Andrew J. Morrison

Date Issued: October 20, 1885

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge, cable car, no piers, cable is supported by tethered balloons !!

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 104/115
3rd: 105/149
4th: 188/42

Database ID Number: 585

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Patent #: 329249

Author(s): E. A. Werner

Date Issued: October 27, 1885

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
two struts form hugh A-frame with drop rod to eliminate pier of a 2-span br

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 586

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Patent #: 336104

Author(s): Solomon H. Godman

Date Issued: February 16, 1886

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, subdivided, Baltimore-ish, plus roller nest bearings

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 11
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 587

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Patent #: 337666

Author(s): Alfredo Cottrau

Date Issued: March 9, 1886

Location:
Town: Naples
County: Not Listed
State: Italy

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier made from prefab, trussed, metal rectangles

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 74
3rd: 75

Database ID Number: 588

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Patent #: 338755

Author(s): Herman Krusi

Date Issued: March 30, 1886

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for top chords of combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 589

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Patent #: 339492

Author(s): Robert W. Smith

Date Issued: April 6, 1886

Location:
Town: Toledo
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebar, method of making

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 109/1R
3rd: 228/156

Database ID Number: 590

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Patent #: 340337

Author(s): W. B. Mack

Date Issued: April 20, 1886

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 591

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Patent #: 346118

Author(s): T. K. Marks

Date Issued: July 27, 1886

Location:
Town: Connersville
County: Marshall
State: TN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, very overcomplicated, and no top chord !

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 592

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Patent #: 346591

Author(s): C. F. T. Kandeler

Date Issued: August 3, 1886

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, lower chord conn for metal truss, especially a draw bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 593

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Patent #: 346724

Author(s): T. P., Jr. Chandler

Date Issued: August 3, 1886

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, where susp cable drops to bottom of river to let ships pass ~ bit extreme

Classifications:
Prime: 104/112
2nd: 31
3rd: 104/115
4th: 104/117

Database ID Number: 594

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Patent #: 346873

Author(s): D. H. Swartz

Date Issued: August 3, 1886

Location:
Town: London Mills
County: Fulton
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. trussed iron bents for abutments

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 4
3rd: 6
4th: 14

Database ID Number: 595

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Patent #: 348020

Author(s): C. F. T. Kandeler

Date Issued: August 24, 1886

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable swing bridge or turntable, a center pivot bearing for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/46
2nd: 75

Database ID Number: 596

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Patent #: 348467

Author(s): C. F. T. Kandeler

Date Issued: August 31, 1886

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 104/46

Database ID Number: 597

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Patent #: 349345

Author(s): S. H. Godman

Date Issued: September 21, 1886

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, girder also struts between & braces metal abutments

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 598

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Patent #: 349468

Author(s): Joseph Tomlinson

Date Issued: September 21, 1886

Location:
Town: Ely
County: Linn
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever bridge with several independent (eyebar) top chords stacked vertically

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 599

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Patent #: 353355

Author(s): Jacob Goodnight

Date Issued: November 30, 1886

Location:
Town: Montevallo
County: Vernon
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd., earth anchors to secure br. against flood and wind

Classifications:
Prime: 26

Database ID Number: 600

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Patent #: 354342

Author(s): Cyrus C. Pratt

Date Issued: December 14, 1886

Location:
Town: Lincoln
County: Lincoln
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. soil anchor expands at bot of drill hole. A susp br anchor, but hardly a "bridge"

Classifications:
Prime: 411/63
2nd: 21
3rd: 52/23
4th: 174/2

Database ID Number: 601

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Patent #: 354558

Author(s): Harry I. Latimer

Date Issued: December 21, 1886

Location:
Town: Asbury Park
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, single girder line under track centerline

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 602

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Patent #: 354652

Author(s): John O'Donnell

Date Issued: December 21, 1886

Location:
Town: Albany
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
"street bridge" to cover excavations in street during constr.

Classifications:
Prime: 2.4
2nd: 73
3rd: 404/1
4th: 404/83

Database ID Number: 603

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Patent #: 356283

Author(s): C. F. T. Kandeler

Date Issued: January 18, 1887

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 104/46

Database ID Number: 604

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Patent #: 356407

Author(s): Hans Knudson

Date Issued: January 18, 1887

Location:
Town: DeForest
County: Dane
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lacking top chord, but with Giant balance scale to weigh vehicles !

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 605

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Patent #: 359467

Author(s): G. H. Pegram

Date Issued: March 15, 1887

Location:
Town: Wilmington
County: Not Listed
State: DE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, deck truss with top chords U-shaped, rails laid inside U's

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 238/26
3rd: 238/338

Database ID Number: 606

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Patent #: 360273

Author(s): August Borneman

Date Issued: March 29, 1887

Location:
Town: Lancaster
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, 2 columns, each with a wood pile below water & iron tube extension above

Classifications:
Prime: 405/222
2nd: 405/250

Database ID Number: 607

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Patent #: 360347

Author(s): Warren H. Haynes

Date Issued: March 29, 1887

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, unique design, hundreds of small panels with wire diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 31

Database ID Number: 608

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Patent #: 361217

Author(s): Henry Flad

Date Issued: April 12, 1887

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
suspended tray for electric wires ~ not really a bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 174/41
2nd: 22
3rd: 174/146
4th: 248/61

Database ID Number: 609

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Patent #: 362144

Author(s): H. M. Carpenter and John Watson

Date Issued: May 3, 1887

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier way to X-brace vertical wood pile group forming a pier, underwater, w/o diving

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 610

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Patent #: 363970

Author(s): C. W. Sherwood

Date Issued: May 31, 1887

Location:
Town: Ulysses
County: Butler
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for a combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15
3rd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 611

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Patent #: 365970

Author(s): G. W. Coultas

Date Issued: July 5, 1887

Location:
Town: Calais
County: Monroe
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for 2-panel bedstead truss

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 612

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Patent #: 366627

Author(s): B. F. Hamilton

Date Issued: July 12, 1887

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev monorail, arching piers to allow it to go over a street

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 613

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Patent #: 368483

Author(s): Joseph Mitchell

Date Issued: August 16, 1887

Location:
Town: Montague
County: Montague
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. where taut cables directly support deck boards

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 20
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 614

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Patent #: 368816

Author(s): Anna Connelly

Date Issued: August 23, 1887

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fire escape bridge, bldg to bldg

Classifications:
Prime: 182/18
2nd: 4
3rd: 182/77
4th: 182/113

Database ID Number: 615

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Patent #: 371029

Author(s): Paul Britvich

Date Issued: October 4, 1887

Location:
Town: Los Angeles
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., masonry, impossibly shallow, foolish arch where cars drive right on arch

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 616

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Patent #: 374271

Author(s): Charles H. Rodemer

Date Issued: December 6, 1887

Location:
Town: Topeka
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, mainly for buildings ~ marginal, poor 'bridge', e.g., cast iron tension flange

Classifications:
Prime: 52/694
2nd: 9
3rd: 52/731.1

Database ID Number: 617

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Patent #: 374887

Author(s): Thomas Buckley

Date Issued: December 13, 1887

Location:
Town: Middlebury
County: Not Listed
State: VT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, RR, with taught cables under deck, between abutmts, helping carry load

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 13
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 618

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Patent #: 376972

Author(s): M. J. L. Towler

Date Issued: January 24, 1888

Location:
Town: Detroit
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 104/46

Database ID Number: 619

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Patent #: 377887

Author(s): T DeDienheim Brochocki

Date Issued: February 14, 1888

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trusses of equilateral triangles & conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 5
3rd: 14
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 620

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Patent #: 377894

Author(s): M. J. Hart

Date Issued: February 14, 1888

Location:
Town: New Orleans
County: Not Listed
State: LA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp cables & towers to support elect lines, unstable in wind? not usual 'bridge'

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 20
3rd: 41

Database ID Number: 621

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Patent #: 378696

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: February 28, 1888

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., protection for main cables

Classifications:
Prime: 22

Database ID Number: 622

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Patent #: 378697

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: February 28, 1888

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., connections for hanger cables

Classifications:
Prime: 22

Database ID Number: 623

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Patent #: 379904

Author(s): A. C. Oehrle

Date Issued: March 20, 1888

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, one big U-shaped girder with rails on top & elec wires inside

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 624

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Patent #: 380210

Author(s): S. W. Lerch

Date Issued: March 27, 1888

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebar, method of making

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 219/67
3rd: 228/174

Database ID Number: 625

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Patent #: 381168

Author(s): H. W. Ramsay

Date Issued: April 17, 1888

Location:
Town: Lincoln
County: Not Listed
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, inverted A-frame made from old RR rails

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 626

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Patent #: 381403

Author(s): T. J. Mayall

Date Issued: April 17, 1888

Location:
Town: Reading
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, not much about bridges, but page 1 is a neat, fanciful street scene

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/231
3rd: 105/180
4th: 111/49

Database ID Number: 627

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Patent #: 382407

Author(s): Z. P. Boyer

Date Issued: May 8, 1888

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, open truswork girders & piers, made from iron tubes

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 628

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Patent #: 384196

Author(s): M. L. E. Duval

Date Issued: June 5, 1888

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, prefab members for quick construction

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 29/428

Database ID Number: 629

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Patent #: 384197

Author(s): M. L. E. Duval

Date Issued: June 5, 1888

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, easily moved truss of light, standard elements

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 630

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Patent #: 385624

Author(s): H. C. Hodges

Date Issued: July 3, 1888

Location:
Town: Detroit
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, composite beam, 2 bent steel plates form web and embrace wood flanges

Classifications:
Prime: 52/376
2nd: 4
3rd: 52/695

Database ID Number: 631

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Patent #: 386120

Author(s): R. Clarke Forsyth

Date Issued: July 17, 1888

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR ~ sketchy on bridge detail, but RR car hangs below track

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 105/156
3rd: 191/29R

Database ID Number: 632

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Patent #: 387139

Author(s): S. A. Buchanan

Date Issued: July 31, 1888

Location:
Town: Bellefontaine
County: Logan
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoe for a wood truss, uses ball and socket joint

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 633

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Patent #: 389694

Author(s): D. M. Eddy

Date Issued: September 18, 1888

Location:
Town: Sedan
County: Chautauqua
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., twin-tube pier-towers, adjustable suspenders, anchors for main cables

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 634

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Patent #: 389951

Author(s): S. A. Buchanan

Date Issued: September 25, 1888

Location:
Town: Bellefontaine
County: Logan
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combin, all web members are tension rods (how him do that?), conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 13
3rd: 14
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 635

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Patent #: 390001

Author(s): Linus W. Brown

Date Issued: September 25, 1888

Location:
Town: New Orleans
County: Not Listed
State: LA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for electric lines & hanging trolleys

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 20
3rd: 174/43
4th: 52/27

Database ID Number: 636

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Patent #: 390319

Author(s): Thomas Thomson

Date Issued: October 2, 1888

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier way to X-brace vertical wood pile group forming a pier, underwater, w/o diving

Classifications:
Prime: 405/195.1
2nd: 75

Database ID Number: 637

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Patent #: 391463

Author(s): Jesse B. Ellis

Date Issued: October 23, 1888

Location:
Town: Great Bend
County: Barton
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, 2 arch rings, one above the other, without intervening trussing

Classifications:
Prime: 24
2nd: 26
3rd: 52/86
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 638

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Patent #: 393433

Author(s): H. S. Hopkins

Date Issued: November 27, 1888

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, wrought iron fittings for combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 639

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Patent #: 394877

Author(s): W. M. Parker

Date Issued: December 18, 1888

Location:
Town: Garland
County: Bourbon
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
small bridge using midspan stays

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 640

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Patent #: 394940

Author(s): Edwin E. Runyon

Date Issued: December 18, 1888

Location:
Town: Mtn. Spring
County: Cooke
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable-stayed br., multi-tube pier/towers, cable along roadwy. EARLY cable-stayed

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 641

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Patent #: 399105

Author(s): G. M. Wildin

Date Issued: March 5, 1889

Location:
Town: Melvern
County: Osage
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed full height to cables, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 21
3rd: 22
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 642

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Patent #: 400704

Author(s): J. W. Paisley

Date Issued: April 2, 1889

Location:
Town: East Randolph
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, small, using tubular members, on metal columns instead of abutmts

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 643

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Patent #: 401765

Author(s): S. N. Stewart

Date Issued: April 23, 1889

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, pivots open by current, closed by capstan & cable

Classifications:
Prime: 29

Database ID Number: 644

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Patent #: 401870

Author(s): J. T. Wells

Date Issued: April 23, 1889

Location:
Town: Scottsville
County: Monroe
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, using laminated boards for top & bot chords, with trussing between

Classifications:
Prime: 52/642
2nd: 25
3rd: 52/86

Database ID Number: 645

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Patent #: 403433

Author(s): H. M. Kosier

Date Issued: May 14, 1889

Location:
Town: Ridgeway
County: Osage
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. with extra cable forming extra triangle, feeble anchors

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 646

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Patent #: 406694

Author(s): A. H. Austin

Date Issued: July 9, 1889

Location:
Town: Webster City
County: Hamilton
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, icebreaker for, metal-sheathed, concrete-filled

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 647

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Patent #: 407421

Author(s): S. N. Stewart

Date Issued: July 23, 1889

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, a section slides perpendicular to flow, moved by "rudder"

Classifications:
Prime: 29

Database ID Number: 648

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Patent #: 407422

Author(s): S. N. Stewart

Date Issued: July 23, 1889

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br.

Classifications:
Prime: 27
2nd: 73
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 649

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Patent #: 407700

Author(s): S. N. Stewart

Date Issued: July 23, 1889

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, swings open & closed using current to move it

Classifications:
Prime: 30

Database ID Number: 650

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Patent #: 410201

Author(s): Edwin E. Runyon

Date Issued: September 3, 1889

Location:
Town: Mtn. Spring
County: Cooke
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. towers ~ multiple vert tubes, with twisted-wire X-bracing to stabilize

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 651

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Patent #: 411013

Author(s): F. H. Cilley

Date Issued: September 17, 1889

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, floor beam connection for truss bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 652

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Patent #: 411499

Author(s): William H. Greer

Date Issued: September 24, 1889

Location:
Town: Sherman
County: Grayson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., adjustable-height deck, via adjustable towers and hangers

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 653

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Patent #: 413172

Author(s): G. N. Clymer

Date Issued: October 22, 1889

Location:
Town: Bloomingsburg
County: Fulton
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., towers, fittings, trussing full depth between cables & road

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 22
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 654

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Patent #: 414843

Author(s): Andreas Olsen

Date Issued: November 12, 1889

Location:
Town: Ephraim
County: San Pete
State: UT terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, cambered by using turnbuckles in Pratt diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 254/1
2nd: 5
3rd: 254/126

Database ID Number: 655

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Patent #: 414859

Author(s): John Cowdon

Date Issued: November 12, 1889

Location:
Town: New Orleans
County: Not Listed
State: LA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, slender, unstiffened steel tube arch segments shaped like clay-pipe pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 24
2nd: 26
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 656

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Patent #: 415209

Author(s): Lysander Johnston

Date Issued: November 19, 1889

Location:
Town: Waco
County: Not Listed
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR ~ RR car hangs below track

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/99
3rd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 657

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Patent #: 416054

Author(s): G. N. Clymer

Date Issued: November 26, 1889

Location:
Town: Bloomingsburg
County: Fulton
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam bridge, stringers, also strut between & brace metal abutments

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 658

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Patent #: 417054

Author(s): G. W. Little

Date Issued: December 10, 1889

Location:
Town: Carbondale
County: Osage
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., shallow, no lateral bracing

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 659

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Patent #: 418189

Author(s): E. V. Johnson

Date Issued: December 31, 1889

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge made of hollow bldg tiles to reduce noise & maint. of elevated RR br.

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 660

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Patent #: 418777

Author(s): Robert E. Akers

Date Issued: January 7, 1890

Location:
Town: Lehigh
County: Not Listed
State: Ind'n Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., small, cables along rdwy. Resembles Runyon's #394,940 cable-stayed

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 661

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Patent #: 419897

Author(s): William E. Stearns

Date Issued: January 21, 1890

Location:
Town: Leavenworth
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Stearns Truss patent, (top chord = 2 laced channels with webs horizontal)

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 4

Database ID Number: 662

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Patent #: 423126

Author(s): C. W. Carman

Date Issued: March 11, 1890

Location:
Town: Hamburg
County: Freemont
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, bridge flooring, wood block, grain runs vertically

Classifications:
Prime: 73

Database ID Number: 663

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Patent #: 423455

Author(s): S. N. Stewart

Date Issued: March 18, 1890

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, a section pivots open by current, closed by pulling on cable

Classifications:
Prime: 29

Database ID Number: 664

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Patent #: 424154

Author(s): George M. Wildin and Joshua Harper and Ruben J. Harper

Date Issued: March 25, 1890

Location:
Town: Melvern
County: Osage
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., midspan tightener for main cables, hairpin shaped suspenders

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 665

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Patent #: 424168

Author(s): E. M. Boynton

Date Issued: March 25, 1890

Location:
Town: West Newbury
County: Not Listed
State: MA

General Category or Bridge Type:
Elevated Railroad

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR, piers and "skeleton tube" spans (a cable-stayed truss)

Classifications:
Prime: 104/121
2nd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 666

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Patent #: 424318

Author(s): D. F. Lane

Date Issued: March 25, 1890

Location:
Town: Hornby
County: Steuben
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, pony, using RR rails for members

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 667

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Patent #: 424349

Author(s): George H. Pegram

Date Issued: March 25, 1890

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever, side spans cantilever to contraflexture pts & hang center span

Classifications:
Prime: 7

Database ID Number: 668

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Patent #: 424427

Author(s): H. E. Mertens

Date Issued: March 25, 1890

Location:
Town: St. Paul
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, improved riveted floor beam conn for truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 669

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Patent #: 425724

Author(s): F. J. Arnodin and M. A. De Palacio

Date Issued: April 15, 1890

Location:
Town: Chateau9-on-Loire
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge, susp + cable-stays, driven by gearing across chain on riverbed

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 104/94
3rd: 105/155

Database ID Number: 670

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Patent #: 427446

Author(s): S. N. Stewart

Date Issued: May 6, 1890

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
floating drawbridge, swings open & closed using current's drag on baffle to do so

Classifications:
Prime: 30

Database ID Number: 671

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Patent #: 427836

Author(s): T. C. Clarke

Date Issued: May 13, 1890

Location:
Town: Shrewsbury
County: Monmouth
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev. RR, urban, bridge for, single columns support 2 tracks

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 4
3rd: 404/1

Database ID Number: 672

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Patent #: 428021

Author(s): R. P. Rothwell

Date Issued: May 13, 1890

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, some designs for

Classifications:
Prime: 175/86
2nd: 175/67
3rd: 405/133
4th: 175/94

Database ID Number: 673

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Patent #: 428338

Author(s): James O. Hill

Date Issued: May 20, 1890

Location:
Town: Navasota
County: Grimes
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br, self-anchored in way that puts much bending in span, trussed floorbms

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 6

Database ID Number: 674

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Patent #: 430304

Author(s): O. C. Smith

Date Issued: June 17, 1890

Location:
Town: Ipswich
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss for electric RR, has mid-height chord ( plus the usual two), quirky diagonals

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 675

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Patent #: 430428

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: June 17, 1890

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., tension-equalizing tower-top cradles for bridge w/ 2 cables on ea side

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 676

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Patent #: 430935

Author(s): George Edwards

Date Issued: June 24, 1890

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expandable bridge on "lazy-tongs" principle

Classifications:
Prime: 2.4
2nd: 29
3rd: 45
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 677

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Patent #: 431276

Author(s): Foster Milliken

Date Issued: July 1, 1890

Location:
Town: New York
County: NY
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, Phoenix-like, but can taper, spacers betwn plates make it easy to climb

Classifications:
Prime: 52/651.07

Database ID Number: 678

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Patent #: 435142

Author(s): R. L. Harris

Date Issued: August 26, 1890

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, strengthen foundation by pressure injecting cement below & around it

Classifications:
Prime: 405/229
2nd: 52/169.9

Database ID Number: 679

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Patent #: 435155

Author(s): Friedrich Schmemann

Date Issued: August 26, 1890

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular deck truss for bldg floors, using tubular members

Classifications:
Prime: 52/644
2nd: 9
3rd: 403/178
4th: 52/690

Database ID Number: 680

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Patent #: 436606

Author(s): G. N. Lantz

Date Issued: September 16, 1890

Location:
Town: Sedan
County: Chautauqua
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., cable anchored by weight of towers

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 18
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 681

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Patent #: 437230

Author(s): H. L. Norcross

Date Issued: September 30, 1890

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, safety rollers on car to carry on in case of derailment

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/215
3rd: 104/247

Database ID Number: 682

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Patent #: 438070

Author(s): Daniel M. Eddy

Date Issued: October 7, 1890

Location:
Town: Pueblo
County: Not Listed
State: CO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., conn, anchor details, and adjustable suspenders

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 683

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Patent #: 438511

Author(s): S. D. Webb and L. R. Haag

Date Issued: October 14, 1890

Location:
Town: Middleport
County: Meigs
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, iron, with nutty zig-zag top chord, & made from old RR rails. Conn for it.

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 684

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Patent #: 439741

Author(s): Henry C. Carmack

Date Issued: November 4, 1890

Location:
Town: East Portland
County: Not Listed
State: OR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed cables and a third at rdwy level, way to twist wires to tighten

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 685

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Patent #: 440437

Author(s): John C. Phillips

Date Issued: November 11, 1890

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Fulton
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
inverted king-post bridge with bedstead-style vert-post abutments <--cables thru

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 22
3rd: 75

Database ID Number: 686

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Patent #: 440490

Author(s): Joseph Mitchell

Date Issued: November 11, 1890

Location:
Town: Rochester
County: Fulton
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
inverted king-post bridge and tied arch bridge with bedstead-style abutments

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 22
3rd: 256/23
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 687

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Patent #: 441598

Author(s): George W Stedman and Frank P. Stedman

Date Issued: November 25, 1890

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed full height of cables, details for

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 688

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Patent #: 441862

Author(s): G. M. Wildin

Date Issued: December 2, 1890

Location:
Town: Melvern
County: Osage
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., Bollman-like, over-complicated

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 689

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Patent #: 442435

Author(s): Joshua Harper

Date Issued: December 9, 1890

Location:
Town: Melvern
County: Osage
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed full height of cables, removable saddles, towers from tubes

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 690

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Patent #: 442488

Author(s): Wilhelm Lubbecke

Date Issued: December 9, 1890

Location:
Town: Berlin
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebar and compression strut for trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 691

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Patent #: 442847

Author(s): G. A. Wiedenmayer and Sigmund Bergmann

Date Issued: December 16, 1890

Location:
Town: Oceanic
County: Monmouth
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, drawbridge, (meet at mid) conn by gearing, pier hinged to tip of one leaf

Classifications:
Prime: 36
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 692

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Patent #: 443714

Author(s): N. W. McGiffin

Date Issued: December 30, 1890

Location:
Town: Canal Lewisbg
County: Coshoctn
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, king post, wood, no mortises, capable of being skewed after assembly

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 693

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Patent #: 445302

Author(s): E. W. Serrell

Date Issued: January 27, 1891

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., way to tighten cables (shift anchorages!) to cancel thermal effects

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 694

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Patent #: 446209

Author(s): E. E. Runyon

Date Issued: February 10, 1891

Location:
Town: Pilot Point
County: Denton
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed br., stays support deck resting on other, very taut cables (susp br.?)

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 695

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Patent #: 446339

Author(s): Milton C. Frits

Date Issued: February 10, 1891

Location:
Town: La Harpe
County: Hancock
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, single combin truss along road centerline, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 696

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Patent #: 446586

Author(s): Agnew Moore

Date Issued: February 17, 1891

Location:
Town: Missoula
County: Not Listed
State: MT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier protection, vertical rollers on upstream edges to shed drift

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 697

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Patent #: 447222

Author(s): W. B. Wise

Date Issued: February 24, 1891

Location:
Town: Elba
County: Coffey
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood pony truss with suspended, crowned deck to shed water

Classifications:
Prime: 73

Database ID Number: 698

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Patent #: 451087

Author(s): Argyle W. Tucker

Date Issued: April 28, 1891

Location:
Town: Midlothian
County: Ellis
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., very light

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 699

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Patent #: 452274

Author(s): Paul Keller and George Keller

Date Issued: May 12, 1891

Location:
Town: Rudolstadt
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, adjustable sheet-metal members

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 14
3rd: 52/696
4th: 18

Database ID Number: 700

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Patent #: 452630

Author(s): D. H. Andrews

Date Issued: May 19, 1891

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable drawbridge, telescoping

Classifications:
Prime: 43
2nd: 75
3rd: 137/467
4th: 42

Database ID Number: 701

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Patent #: 453268

Author(s): E. S. Shaw

Date Issued: June 2, 1891

Location:
Town: Cambridge
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, safety rail for, to prevent derailments

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/248

Database ID Number: 702

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Patent #: 453342

Author(s): John Lounsberry

Date Issued: June 2, 1891

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearings pier cap that cradles stringers & lets them expand with temp.

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 703

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Patent #: 453939

Author(s): Silas G. Randall

Date Issued: June 9, 1891

Location:
Town: Greene
County: Chenango
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR, cars hang below track

Classifications:
Prime: 104/111
2nd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 704

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Patent #: 454444

Author(s): George Anderson

Date Issued: June 23, 1891

Location:
Town: Madras
County: Not Listed
State: India

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, pier-top jacks to lift entire span into place

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 254/85

Database ID Number: 705

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Patent #: 455586

Author(s): Pountus Swanson

Date Issued: July 7, 1891

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge to carry a fire hose over a street, portable

Classifications:
Prime: 104/276
2nd: 2.4

Database ID Number: 706

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Patent #: 456501

Author(s): Emilien Thomas

Date Issued: July 21, 1891

Location:
Town: Brussels
County: Not Listed
State: Belg

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, X-braced panels to be both bridge & piers ~ like a Bailey Bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 73
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 707

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Patent #: 457291

Author(s): Luther Pulliam

Date Issued: August 4, 1891

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, ways of stacking and clamping beams vertically to make a girder

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 708

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Patent #: 458116

Author(s): St. John V. Day

Date Issued: August 18, 1891

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR, opposed cables give stiffness, tension by wts & levers

Classifications:
Prime: 104/117
2nd: 21
3rd: 104/123
4th: 104/201

Database ID Number: 709

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Patent #: 458161

Author(s): W. W. Green

Date Issued: August 25, 1891

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, metal truss, that minimize the weakening of members

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 710

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Patent #: 458199

Author(s): Charles Steiner

Date Issued: August 25, 1891

Location:
Town: Phoenixville
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, metal truss, for joining members that are out of plane (ie, 3D conn)

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 711

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Patent #: 459301

Author(s): William H. Murphy

Date Issued: September 8, 1891

Location:
Town: Morgontown
County: Morgan
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, tie is a loop that runs back over top of arch

Classifications:
Prime: 10

Database ID Number: 712

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Patent #: 460856

Author(s): B. F. Ferguson

Date Issued: October 6, 1891

Location:
Town: McKinney
County: Collin
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, for combin truss, that shed water

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 4
3rd: 13
4th: 14

Database ID Number: 713

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Patent #: 464962

Author(s): William Flynn

Date Issued: December 15, 1891

Location:
Town: Sioux City
County: Woodbury
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., road supported at center of ea float's footprint, pontoons tied together

Classifications:
Prime: 27

Database ID Number: 714

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Patent #: 467013

Author(s): G. P. Miller

Date Issued: January 12, 1892

Location:
Town: Hawesville
County: Hancock
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., small and humble, timber towers & timber crib subsurface anchors

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 715

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Patent #: 468841

Author(s): George A. Stephenson

Date Issued: February 16, 1892

Location:
Town: Los Angeles
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, tubular chords & verts, but diags are cable,says won't vibrate, Ha!

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 52/694

Database ID Number: 716

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Patent #: 470992

Author(s): St. John V. Day and Charles Moody

Date Issued: March 15, 1892

Location:
Town: Terre Haute
County: Vigo
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for special elevated RR having wheels atop cars, reverse cable below rd

Classifications:
Prime: 104/117
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 717

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Patent #: 472277

Author(s): F. E. Sickels

Date Issued: April 5, 1892

Location:
Town: Kansas City
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier footing, drill into bedrock & set vert. bolts in conc-filled holes, to tie down pier

Classifications:
Prime: 405/222

Database ID Number: 718

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Patent #: 472862

Author(s): St. John V. Day

Date Issued: April 12, 1892

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for ordinary RR, with upward-curved cable below roadwy. (ref #470,992)

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 19

Database ID Number: 719

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Patent #: 474734

Author(s): Ommund Haerem

Date Issued: May 10, 1892

Location:
Town: Houston
County: Not Listed
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, big metal shell that slides down over long-stem twisted-in helical anchors

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 720

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Patent #: 477907

Author(s): C. C. Lockstaedt

Date Issued: June 28, 1892

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, heavy bolt-together sheet metal arch & spandrel walls, filled w/ conc

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 721

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Patent #: 478438

Author(s): T. H. Kosure

Date Issued: July 5, 1892

Location:
Town: Farmersville
County: Collin
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., mostly wires, turnbuckles on cables. Resembles 394,940 & 418,777

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 722

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Patent #: 479081

Author(s): G. A. Stephenson

Date Issued: July 19, 1892

Location:
Town: Los Angeles
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, novel design, using wire cable for diagonals, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 723

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Patent #: 480863

Author(s): C. J. Westwood and Harry Rigby

Date Issued: August 16, 1892

Location:
Town: Millwall
County: Middlesex
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearings, uses pivoting link or "rocker"

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 724

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Patent #: 482017

Author(s): Hiram A. Loomis

Date Issued: September 6, 1892

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Conway
State: AR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss based on overlapping rings (not triangles) with susp cable brace

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 32

Database ID Number: 725

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Patent #: 484686

Author(s): Joel H. Stone

Date Issued: October 18, 1892

Location:
Town: Dallas City
County: Hancock
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 726

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Patent #: 484971

Author(s): George S. Morison

Date Issued: October 25, 1892

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearings, uses multiple rollers (roller nest) + rocker

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 727

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Patent #: 485689

Author(s): James F. Hardesty

Date Issued: November 8, 1892

Location:
Town: Cambridge
County: Guernsey
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for a combination bedstead truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 728

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Patent #: 485708

Author(s): Edwin Norton

Date Issued: November 8, 1892

Location:
Town: Maywood
County: Cook
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, office buildings serve as piers for long susp bridge spans of RR

Classifications:
Prime: 104/28
2nd: 104/125

Database ID Number: 729

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Patent #: 487582

Author(s): S. A. Oliver

Date Issued: December 6, 1892

Location:
Town: Houston
County: Not Listed
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, 2 braced conc-filled tube-columns, metal jacket "caisson" protects lower parts

Classifications:
Prime: 405/216
2nd: 52/423
3rd: 405/222

Database ID Number: 730

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Patent #: 488283

Author(s): James L. Meigs

Date Issued: December 20, 1892

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, iron pier construction, bearing seats & rail hold-downs

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 731

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Patent #: 489946

Author(s): Richard Gray

Date Issued: January 17, 1893

Location:
Town: Bloomington
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for a metal truss having tubular top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15
3rd: 403/188

Database ID Number: 732

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Patent #: 491408

Author(s): C. B. Davis

Date Issued: February 7, 1893

Location:
Town: Savona
County: Steuben
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, steel plate, 2 layers w/ staggered joints, bent along springline for "foot"

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89

Database ID Number: 733

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Patent #: 493132

Author(s): J. G. D. Tucker

Date Issued: March 7, 1893

Location:
Town: Perrysville
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, oval tubular girders w/ help from cable stays, rails hang far below girders

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/110
3rd: 105/155
4th: 238/148

Database ID Number: 734

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Patent #: 493788

Author(s): Edwin E. Runyon

Date Issued: March 21, 1893

Location:
Town: Pilot Point
County: Denton
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., light railing for

Classifications:
Prime: 18

Database ID Number: 735

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Patent #: 495005

Author(s): Luther Pulliam

Date Issued: April 4, 1893

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, arched top chord, iron-strap verts + a few extra diagonal rods

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 182/217

Database ID Number: 736

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Patent #: 495621

Author(s): J. W. Balet

Date Issued: April 18, 1893

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., portions near piers are cable stayed cantilever trusses, +suspend span

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 19
3rd: 73.5
4th: 21

Database ID Number: 737

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Patent #: 498559

Author(s): James B. Marsh

Date Issued: May 30, 1893

Location:
Town: Des Moines
County: Polk
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. spread footing for tubular bridge posts for piers

Classifications:
Prime: 52/297
2nd: 22
3rd: 75

Database ID Number: 738

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Patent #: 498993

Author(s): C. L. Strobel

Date Issued: June 6, 1893

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, built-up from several I-beams, suspended floorbms, other details

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 739

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Patent #: 498994

Author(s): C. L. Strobel

Date Issued: June 6, 1893

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, built-up from I-beams, floorbms rest on bot flange, other details

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 740

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Patent #: 499622

Author(s): H. Weickel

Date Issued: June 13, 1893

Location:
Town: Darien
County: Fairfield
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder for traveling cranes, lateral bracing for start / stop forces

Classifications:
Prime: 212/312
2nd: 74.5
3rd: 212/291
4th: 212/324

Database ID Number: 741

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Patent #: 499631

Author(s): G. T. Hawes

Date Issued: June 13, 1893

Location:
Town: Owensborough
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
jack, metal struts to raise brg. seat a short distance above top of pier or abutmt

Classifications:
Prime: 75

Database ID Number: 742

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Patent #: 500267

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: June 27, 1893

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., main cable links (eyebars) made from wire

Classifications:
Prime: 22
2nd: 59/78

Database ID Number: 743

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Patent #: 501534

Author(s): Winfield S. Palmer

Date Issued: July 18, 1893

Location:
Town: Glenburn
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, corrugated metal decking for bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 744

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Patent #: 501969

Author(s): S. D. Stephens

Date Issued: July 25, 1893

Location:
Town: West Shoals
County: Martin
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, arched segmental metal girder, using arched wire cable to clamp pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 25
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 745

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Patent #: 502165

Author(s): C. H. Ball

Date Issued: July 25, 1893

Location:
Town: E. Windsor
County: Berkshire
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal, tubular top chord with verts looped over it

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 746

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Patent #: 504559

Author(s): Thomas C. Clarke

Date Issued: September 5, 1893

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed bridge designs ~ they look pretty "modern"

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 747

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Patent #: 505054

Author(s): Joseph Melan

Date Issued: September 12, 1893

Location:
Town: Brunn
County: Not Listed
State: Austria-H

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arched steel beams are encased in conc, and hold forms for doing so

Classifications:
Prime: 52/339

Database ID Number: 748

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Patent #: 508478

Author(s): Lysander Johnston

Date Issued: November 14, 1893

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, susp br.+ cable-stays between piers, no stiffening, cars hang below rails

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/99
3rd: 104/123
4th: 191/50

Database ID Number: 749

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Patent #: 508929

Author(s): Eugene Fontaine

Date Issued: November 21, 1893

Location:
Town: Detroit
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
winter bridge for when shipping stops, quick assembly & removal on perm foot'gs

Classifications:
Prime: 2.6
2nd: 29
3rd: 42

Database ID Number: 750

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Patent #: 509781

Author(s): Julius Weiss

Date Issued: November 28, 1893

Location:
Town: Hamburg
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, adjustable-length, general purpose truss member

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 5
3rd: 13
4th: 19

Database ID Number: 751

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Patent #: 510064

Author(s): D. M. Eddy

Date Issued: December 5, 1893

Location:
Town: Stockton
County: Cedar
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., stiffening truss looks like bowstring but has tension-only top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 22
4th: 73

Database ID Number: 752

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Patent #: 510264

Author(s): B. M. Kash

Date Issued: December 5, 1893

Location:
Town: Joplin
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier. shallow, toothed, push-in foundation for

Classifications:
Prime: 405/228
2nd: 405/232

Database ID Number: 753

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Patent #: 510674

Author(s): D. P. Cameron

Date Issued: December 12, 1893

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram for construction work

Classifications:
Prime: 238/11
2nd: 18

Database ID Number: 754

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Patent #: 511472

Author(s): J. A. Sumovski

Date Issued: December 26, 1893

Location:
Town: St. Petersburg
County: Not Listed
State: Rus

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
inflatable bridge, multi-celled

Classifications:
Prime: 52/2.19
2nd: 24
3rd: 74.5
4th: 27

Database ID Number: 755

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Patent #: 511605

Author(s): G. W. Frederick

Date Issued: December 26, 1893

Location:
Town: Los Angeles
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., self anchoring, inefficient, top chord of stiffening truss is a cable

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 756

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Patent #: 511713

Author(s): William Scherzer

Date Issued: December 2, 1893

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Cook
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, Lift Bridge, "rolling lift bridge", one of several similar. noted as deceased

Classifications:
Prime: 39
2nd: 41
3rd: 47

Database ID Number: 757

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Patent #: 513389

Author(s): William H. Greer

Date Issued: January 23, 1894

Location:
Town: Sherman
County: Grayson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., anchorages, diags between cable & road, towers from tubes, re411,499

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 758

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Patent #: 515338

Author(s): C. G. Hutchinson

Date Issued: February 27, 1894

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR, cars run on taut, almost flat, sheathed wire bundles, Unstable !

Classifications:
Prime: 104/112
2nd: 104/119
3rd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 759

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Patent #: 515445

Author(s): Francis Prasil

Date Issued: February 27, 1894

Location:
Town: Prague
County: Not Listed
State: Hung

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, transportable, with prefab panels of tubes

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 760

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Patent #: 517938

Author(s): G. S. Seaman

Date Issued: April 10, 1894

Location:
Town: Alvarado
County: Johnson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoe for a wood truss

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 761

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Patent #: 518564

Author(s): C. C. Burton

Date Issued: April 17, 1894

Location:
Town: Utica
County: Oneida
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elevated RR, cable-stays help main truss

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 191/29R

Database ID Number: 762

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Patent #: 523143

Author(s): G. B. Francis and Edwin P. Dawley

Date Issued: July 17, 1894

Location:
Town: Providence
County: Not Listed
State: RI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, corrug steel plates, riveted-together

Classifications:
Prime: 52/450
2nd: 52/336

Database ID Number: 763

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Patent #: 523895

Author(s): Levi Johnson

Date Issued: July 31, 1894

Location:
Town: Nemaha City
County: Nemaha
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge, held by taut cables, hand cranked, pedestrians only

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 104/235

Database ID Number: 764

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Patent #: 524486

Author(s): David B. McHenry

Date Issued: August 14, 1894

Location:
Town: Grenada
County: Grenada
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., short but over-complex, diff rods hold diff floorbeams, turnbuckles tighten

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 765

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Patent #: 527430

Author(s): Richard Knights

Date Issued: October 16, 1894

Location:
Town: Snaresbrook
County: Essex
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, steel pans with cement filling, for floor of bridge or warehouse

Classifications:
Prime: 52/336
2nd: 73
3rd: 52/174
4th: 238/7

Database ID Number: 766

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Patent #: 528940

Author(s): John E. Greiner

Date Issued: November 13, 1894

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, adjustable, for iron truss that uses RR rails for members. 9 diff claims

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 767

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Patent #: 529220

Author(s): John A. Waddell

Date Issued: November 13, 1894

Location:
Town: Kansas City
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Wadell's A-frame truss patent

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 768

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Patent #: 529749

Author(s): Albert Pickett

Date Issued: November 27, 1894

Location:
Town: Delaware
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated RR, unique stiffening truss, cars hang below track

Classifications:
Prime: 104/95
2nd: 104/123
3rd: 191/29R

Database ID Number: 769

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Patent #: 529757

Author(s): T. J. Shorb

Date Issued: November 27, 1894

Location:
Town: Cape Girardeau
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable-stayed bridge w/ arch for extra strength, for elev RR, cars hang from track

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/123
3rd: 105/155
4th: 191/50

Database ID Number: 770

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Patent #: 530265

Author(s): J. C. Fenn

Date Issued: December 4, 1894

Location:
Town: Terryville
County: Not Listed
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, king-post pony truss from RR rails, conn for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 5
3rd: 14
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 771

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Patent #: 530425

Author(s): Edward Keating

Date Issued: December 4, 1894

Location:
Town: Terre Haute
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder bridge, segmental metal, full length tie-rods underneath for insurance

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 74.5
3rd: 52/592.1

Database ID Number: 772

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Patent #: 530902

Author(s): J. P. Roe

Date Issued: December 11, 1894

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram, aerial, cable grips, improvement on 438,949

Classifications:
Prime: 104/200
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 773

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Patent #: 531048

Author(s): D. F. Lane

Date Issued: December 18, 1894

Location:
Town: Corning
County: Steuben
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, made from old RR rails, abuts from same, braced by truss, conn. for all

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15
3rd: 52/639

Database ID Number: 774

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Patent #: 531768

Author(s): W. S. Brelsfoard

Date Issued: January 1, 1895

Location:
Town: Jacksonburg
County: Butler
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, end shoe for a combin truss

Classifications:
Prime: 15

Database ID Number: 775

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Patent #: 532140

Author(s): Adalbert Chechong and Adolf Balensiefer

Date Issued: January 8, 1895

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson for erecting bridge piers

Classifications:
Prime: 405/8
2nd: 405/222

Database ID Number: 776

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Patent #: 534032

Author(s): George N. Clymer

Date Issued: February 12, 1895

Location:
Town: Bloomingsburg
County: Fulton
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. trussed girder bridge w/ bedstead-like metal abutments ~ abuts are heart of it

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 3
3rd: 14
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 777

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Patent #: 535695

Author(s): John E. Greiner

Date Issued: March 12, 1895

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, some diagonals form arch or susp catenary

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 6
3rd: 11

Database ID Number: 778

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Patent #: 535831

Author(s): N. C. Jessup

Date Issued: March 19, 1895

Location:
Town: Westhampton
County: Suffolk
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, drawbridge, sliding, deck, improved 514,754

Classifications:
Prime: 43
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 779

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Patent #: 536680

Author(s): Colby M. Avery

Date Issued: April 2, 1895

Location:
Town: Rockford
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss having single-tube top chord and 2-tube end posts

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 13
3rd: 14
4th: 15

Database ID Number: 780

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Patent #: 537591

Author(s): J. J. White

Date Issued: April 16, 1895

Location:
Town: New Lisbon
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
weather protection, spacing strip under flooring boards to reduce rotting

Classifications:
Prime: 52/506.06
2nd: 74
3rd: 52/334
4th: 52/408

Database ID Number: 781

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Patent #: 539506

Author(s): W. N. Carr

Date Issued: May 21, 1895

Location:
Town: Sugar Tree Ridge
County: Highland
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn and top chord protection (sheet metal) for a combination truss

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 13
3rd: 74

Database ID Number: 782

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Patent #: 541213

Author(s): C. H. Platt

Date Issued: June 18, 1895

Location:
Town: Long Island City
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, arched precast concrete panels between beams, deck laid atop panels

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/231
3rd: 52/339

Database ID Number: 783

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Patent #: 541663

Author(s): Robert M. Fryer

Date Issued: June 25, 1895

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elev RR, single twisted main cable, complex lat bracing, cars hang

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123

Database ID Number: 784

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Patent #: 542531

Author(s): John W. Ogle

Date Issued: July 9, 1895

Location:
Town: Arcadia
County: Morgan
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch-culvert, metal, small, metal straps in mud make it a tied arch

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 785

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Patent #: 542829

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: July 16, 1895

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., details for cables made from wire links per #500,267

Classifications:
Prime: 22
2nd: 59/84

Database ID Number: 786

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Patent #: 544733

Author(s): R. P. Lamont

Date Issued: August 20, 1895

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, bascule bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 36
2nd: 21
3rd: 50

Database ID Number: 787

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Patent #: 545825

Author(s): Arthur Sherry

Date Issued: September 3, 1895

Location:
Town: Fayette
County: Jefferson
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br.,springs in main cables to counter temperature change

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 21
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 788

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Patent #: 546245

Author(s): W. S. Parker

Date Issued: September 10, 1895

Location:
Town: Austin
County: Not Listed
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
Culvert, circular, from many brick or clay pieces that have lap joints

Classifications:
Prime: 405/125
2nd: 138/172

Database ID Number: 789

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Patent #: 549643

Author(s): P. L. Hunt

Date Issued: November 12, 1895

Location:
Town: Litchfield
County: Bradford
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, sq. wood beam drilled thru center, steel tube inserted, +sheathed in steel

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 790

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Patent #: 549851

Author(s): R. M. Fryer

Date Issued: November 12, 1895

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed bridge to support elevated RR

Classifications:
Prime: 104/95
2nd: 22
3rd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 791

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Patent #: 550631

Author(s): James B. Martindale

Date Issued: December 3, 1895

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Cook
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cableway bridge, to pull bicycles, etc, along wood deck, like a ski lift

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125
2nd: 104/239

Database ID Number: 792

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Patent #: 551525

Author(s): W. J. Brewer

Date Issued: December 17, 1895

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram using cables for "rails" for underslung cars, susp cable & fittings for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/115
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 793

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Patent #: 551744

Author(s): W. F. Brothers

Date Issued: December 17, 1895

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram, improved 556,327 ~ automatic cable tightener using weights

Classifications:
Prime: 104/117
2nd: 21
3rd: 212/72

Database ID Number: 794

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Patent #: 553903

Author(s): Louis Duvinage

Date Issued: February 4, 1896

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for wood roof truss

Classifications:
Prime: 52/639
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 795

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Patent #: 559116

Author(s): Frank Baldwin

Date Issued: April 28, 1896

Location:
Town: Washington
County: Not Listed
State: DC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, double-wall caisson floated out & sunk

Classifications:
Prime: 405/13
2nd: 75
3rd: 405/204

Database ID Number: 796

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Patent #: 559774

Author(s): C. E. Fowler

Date Issued: May 5, 1896

Location:
Town: Youngstown
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, corrug steel, topped with concrete

Classifications:
Prime: 52/450
2nd: 52/336

Database ID Number: 797

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Patent #: 562175

Author(s): James H. Edwards

Date Issued: June 16, 1896

Location:
Town: East Berlin
County: Not Listed
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
composite built-up shapes, various metals, for columns & compression membrs

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.2

Database ID Number: 798

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Patent #: 562191

Author(s): H. F. Mitchell

Date Issued: June 16, 1896

Location:
Town: Rayville
County: Parker
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., truss bracing for

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 18

Database ID Number: 799

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Patent #: 563818

Author(s): W. W. Thomas

Date Issued: July 14, 1896

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for elevated commuter RR, uses cables for track, cars hang below

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 21
3rd: 104/110
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 800

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Patent #: 564164

Author(s): Edward S. Shaw

Date Issued: July 14, 1896

Location:
Town: Cambridge
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, bascule bridge designs with pivot points cantilevered partly over river

Classifications:
Prime: 38
2nd: 7
3rd: 21
4th: 76

Database ID Number: 801

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Patent #: 564854

Author(s): David D. Toal

Date Issued: July 28, 1896

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, girders w/ shallow arch to help, lead rail seats to reduce noise

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 802

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Patent #: 565020

Author(s): John I. Newburg

Date Issued: August 4, 1896

Location:
Town: Vicksburg
County: Not Listed
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, metal, several chords with trussing between, continuous at piers

Classifications:
Prime: 25
2nd: 26
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 803

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Patent #: 566233

Author(s): John H. Semmes

Date Issued: August 18, 1896

Location:
Town: Meridian
County: Not Listed
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, the "Semmes Compound truss" = lenticular with no diags, wavy stringers

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 12

Database ID Number: 804

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Patent #: 568673

Author(s): Adam Geisel

Date Issued: September 29, 1896

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, using concrete blocks to imitate a stone arch

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 805

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Patent #: 568830

Author(s): B. L. Blair

Date Issued: October 6, 1896

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge from hollow clay blocks filled w/ conc to keep out water. looks unstable

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 52/270

Database ID Number: 806

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Patent #: 569228

Author(s): Arthur Painter

Date Issued: October 13, 1896

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram, hook or "clip" to attach buckets to tram cable

Classifications:
Prime: 104/201
2nd: 22
3rd: 191/43

Database ID Number: 807

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Patent #: 570239

Author(s): Edwin Thacher

Date Issued: October 27, 1896

Location:
Town: Detroit
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., masonry, replace the usual earth fill w/ field of i-beam posts to reduce wt

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174

Database ID Number: 808

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Patent #: 571225

Author(s): Adam Geisel

Date Issued: November 10, 1896

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, using match-cast concrete segments w/ steel shoes, shows 4-hinged arch!

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 26
3rd: 52/174
4th: 52/575

Database ID Number: 809

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Patent #: 574807

Author(s): G. A. Lancaster

Date Issued: January 5, 1897

Location:
Town: Boston
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, for minimum obstruction of light below (similarities w/ monorail)

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 810

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Patent #: 574887

Author(s): N. H. Davis

Date Issued: January 12, 1897

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, steel I-beam slit longit. & bot flange pulled down to make A-frame truss

Classifications:
Prime: 52/635
2nd: 3

Database ID Number: 811

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Patent #: 577443

Author(s): C. M. Morse and F. M. Sylvester

Date Issued: February 23, 1897

Location:
Town: Buffalo
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, cantilever drawbridge that rolls off river (along road centerline) to open

Classifications:
Prime: 43
2nd: 47
3rd: 74
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 812

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Patent #: 579007

Author(s): W. E. Phelps

Date Issued: March 16, 1897

Location:
Town: Elmwood
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, made from RR rails, flimsy and hardly braced

Classifications:
Prime: 52/737.2
2nd: 403/191

Database ID Number: 813

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Patent #: 582744

Author(s): E. S. Jarrett

Date Issued: May 18, 1897

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, stacked rings, unpressurized, set anchors & force caisson down

Classifications:
Prime: 405/249
2nd: 294/89
3rd: 403/307

Database ID Number: 814

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Patent #: 583464

Author(s): Fredrich Von Emperger

Date Issued: June 1, 1897

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch, like Melan's 505,054 except re-bars (conn togethr) follow top & bot faces

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/328

Database ID Number: 815

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Patent #: 584525

Author(s): John H. Semmes

Date Issued: June 15, 1897

Location:
Town: Meridian
County: Not Listed
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, strange, with no top chord, and Fig 5 form not symmetric about midspan !

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 816

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Patent #: 587540

Author(s): L. H. Wilbur

Date Issued: August 3, 1897

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge for street / RR grade separation

Classifications:
Prime: 73
2nd: 404/1

Database ID Number: 817

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Patent #: 590490

Author(s): James T. Thomas and William R. Thomas

Date Issued: September 21, 1897

Location:
Town: Catasauqua
County: Lehigh
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, segmental corrug steel, bolting-flanges to connect the pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 24
2nd: 52/86
3rd: 405/124

Database ID Number: 818

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Patent #: 591221

Author(s): J. S. Lane

Date Issued: October 5, 1897

Location:
Town: Westport
County: Fairfield
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. aerial tram towers on helical anchors that screw up as stockpile ht grows

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125
2nd: 21
3rd: 24/569
4th: 52/111

Database ID Number: 819

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Patent #: 591832

Author(s): David E. Fisher

Date Issued: October 19, 1897

Location:
Town: Kenton
County: Hardin
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., "locking levers" at abutments help roadway stringers carry load

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 820

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Patent #: 591949

Author(s): G. M. Cheney

Date Issued: October 19, 1897

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch culvert, brick, w/ steel beam frame at inlet & outlet to form railing & brace arch

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/89

Database ID Number: 821

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Patent #: 592852

Author(s): Alfred Westwood

Date Issued: November 2, 1897

Location:
Town: Tipton
County: Stafford
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearing using an elliptical "bearing block" that slides & rocks

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5
2nd: 248/188.3

Database ID Number: 822

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Patent #: 592990

Author(s): J. M. Lee

Date Issued: November 2, 1897

Location:
Town: Houston
County: Not Listed
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, ballast-roadbed deck system for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 823

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Patent #: 595629

Author(s): Charles M. Horton

Date Issued: December 14, 1897

Location:
Town: Duluth
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, elliptical, plus connections, 17 different claims

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 14
3rd: 73.5
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 824

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Patent #: 595906

Author(s): A. S. Dandridge

Date Issued: December 21, 1897

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., an independent curved truss bolted atop the main cables, for rigidity

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 825

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Patent #: 596867

Author(s): H. H. Frick

Date Issued: January 4, 1898

Location:
Town: Fricks
County: Buck
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
portable small bridge (revered by underachievers from many lands)

Classifications:
Prime: 2.4
2nd: 69.5

Database ID Number: 826

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Patent #: 597221

Author(s): Jakob Pflanz

Date Issued: January 11, 1898

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, drawbridge, sliding draw-span, folding approach sections for

Classifications:
Prime: 43
2nd: 21
3rd: 46

Database ID Number: 827

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Patent #: 597281

Author(s): Adam Geisel

Date Issued: January 11, 1898

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, using concrete block segments with lead & asphalt joints

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 828

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Patent #: 597590

Author(s): Aaron G. Pratt

Date Issued: January 18, 1898

Location:
Town: Hammondsport
County: Steuben
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, segmental corrug steel with I or T beams betwn pieces, headwalls+wings

Classifications:
Prime: 24
2nd: 26
3rd: 405/124
4th: 52/87

Database ID Number: 829

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Patent #: 598168

Author(s): Montgomery Waddell

Date Issued: February 1, 1898

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, drawbridge, like a big king-post if closed, ea half rotates to vert to open

Classifications:
Prime: 39
2nd: 25
3rd: 41

Database ID Number: 830

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Patent #: 605153

Author(s): John A. Waddell and Ira G. Hedrick

Date Issued: June 7, 1898

Location:
Town: Kansas City
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., towers hinged at base, upward-curved cables below road replace truss

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 831

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Patent #: 605474

Author(s): J. A. Davidson

Date Issued: June 14, 1898

Location:
Town: Millsap
County: Parker
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss with very heavy gusset plates

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 832

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Patent #: 607335

Author(s): William A. Boring

Date Issued: July 12, 1898

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss for roof of building ~ not a bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 52/639
2nd: 13

Database ID Number: 833

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Patent #: 608690

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: August 9, 1898

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., cradles atop towers

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 174/207

Database ID Number: 834

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Patent #: 609001

Author(s): Walter Beer

Date Issued: August 16, 1898

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilevers near each pier support arch across midspan

Classifications:
Prime: 7

Database ID Number: 835

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Patent #: 616536

Author(s): T. J. Hitson

Date Issued: December 27, 1898

Location:
Town: Hermitage
County: Hickory
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., short, odd stiffening "truss"

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 836

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Patent #: 617471

Author(s): J. G. McMillan

Date Issued: January 10, 1899

Location:
Town: San Jose
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, flooring for bridge and wharf, wood-asphalt or wood-concrete composit

Classifications:
Prime: 52/335
2nd: 73
3rd: 52/450
4th: 404/34

Database ID Number: 837

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Patent #: 617615

Author(s): Edwin Thacher

Date Issued: January 10, 1899

Location:
Town: Detroit
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch, unique deformed flat bar reinforcement near each face

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/724.4

Database ID Number: 838

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Patent #: 621469

Author(s): C. M. Dutton

Date Issued: March 21, 1899

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, inverted crescent -shaped truss, mainly for roof, vericals in compr, no diags

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 839

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Patent #: 621672

Author(s): C. M. Horton

Date Issued: March 21, 1899

Location:
Town: Superior
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, truss, that don't perforate the truss members

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 13
3rd: 73.5
4th: 14

Database ID Number: 840

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Patent #: 623904

Author(s): H. V. Hinckley

Date Issued: April 25, 1899

Location:
Town: Topeka
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete w/ embeded I-beams, steel frames to reinf spandrel wall, exp jts

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174

Database ID Number: 841

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Patent #: 624618

Author(s): W. S. Brelsfoard

Date Issued: May 9, 1899

Location:
Town: Heno
County: Butler
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, adjustable-length, for pony truss with tubular top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 842

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Patent #: 625051

Author(s): Abraham Moyer

Date Issued: May 16, 1899

Location:
Town: Kosoma
County: Not Listed
State: Ind'n Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
low water ford for western streams in arid climes (plank road across streambed)

Classifications:
Prime: 404/1
2nd: 404/46
3rd: 404/71

Database ID Number: 843

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Patent #: 625902

Author(s): Anton Rieppel

Date Issued: May 30, 1899

Location:
Town: Nuremberg
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., cradles & clamps for roadway hangers

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 844

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Patent #: 627509

Author(s): H. E. Koch

Date Issued: June 27, 1899

Location:
Town: Hartington
County: Cedar
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., odd form, roadway is stretched vert tightly between anchorages

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 21
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 845

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Patent #: 627859

Author(s): J. E. Locke

Date Issued: June 27, 1899

Location:
Town: Cross Hill
County: Laurens
State: SC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br, self-braced because (oops) no back-stays on "towers" Locke says truss

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 182/218

Database ID Number: 846

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Patent #: 629273

Author(s): Anton Rieppel

Date Issued: July 18, 1899

Location:
Town: Nuremberg
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, truss spans & piers for, cars hang below tracks

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 847

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Patent #: 629902

Author(s): William E. Gunn

Date Issued: August 1, 1899

Location:
Town: Covington
County: Kenton
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. where each "tower" = one vertical and 2 leaning ( like a V ) main struts

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 848

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Patent #: 629935

Author(s): N. H. Sturgis

Date Issued: August 1, 1899

Location:
Town: Guthrie
County: Logan
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. and conn. for, trussed full height to cables

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 849

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Patent #: 630809

Author(s): William A. Gunn

Date Issued: August 8, 1899

Location:
Town: Lexington
County: Fayette
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. where each "tower" = 2 leaning main struts, like a V viewed from side

Classifications:
Prime: 21

Database ID Number: 850

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Patent #: 632985

Author(s): W. L. Brayton

Date Issued: September 12, 1899

Location:
Town: Harrisburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, for bascule bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 38
2nd: 5
3rd: 73.5
4th: 41

Database ID Number: 851

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Patent #: 633298

Author(s): W. D. H. Washington

Date Issued: September 19, 1899

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, sunk using weights near the top

Classifications:
Prime: 405/249

Database ID Number: 852

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Patent #: 634026

Author(s): W. H. Pittman

Date Issued: October 3, 1899

Location:
Town: Stillwater
County: Payne
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, lenticular truss, small, cable for bottom chord, drive on top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 6
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 853

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Patent #: 635165

Author(s): H. C. W. Weyhe

Date Issued: October 17, 1899

Location:
Town: Bremen
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, way to construct : built above water & forced down

Classifications:
Prime: 405/284
2nd: 52/125.2

Database ID Number: 854

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Patent #: 639320

Author(s): Arthur Vierendeel

Date Issued: December 19, 1899

Location:
Town: Bruges
County: Not Listed
State: Belg

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Vierendeel truss patent

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 12
3rd: 14

Database ID Number: 855

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Patent #: 639498

Author(s): Gerald Barker

Date Issued: December 19, 1899

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, truss has 2 lower chords, & 1 top chord which RR car straddles

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/248

Database ID Number: 856

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Patent #: 639713

Author(s): Joe H. Cooley

Date Issued: December 26, 1899

Location:
Town: Abilene
County: Not Listed
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR br, scalloped girders hang from very taut main cable, structurally suspect

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123

Database ID Number: 857

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Patent #: 645146

Author(s): M. C. Trumbull

Date Issued: March 13, 1900

Location:
Town: Savona
County: Steuben
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, improved 494,576 non-corrug but with stiffener angles

Classifications:
Prime: 24

Database ID Number: 858

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Patent #: 645689

Author(s): Albert Lucius

Date Issued: March 20, 1900

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, turn table for swing bridges, with cushioning springs

Classifications:
Prime: 104/35
2nd: 104/46

Database ID Number: 859

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Patent #: 648447

Author(s): F. G. Vent

Date Issued: May 1, 1900

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable bascule bridge, rocking type, pier and drive details

Classifications:
Prime: 40
2nd: 75

Database ID Number: 860

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Patent #: 649643

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 15, 1900

Location:
Town: Lafayette
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch, tie abutments together under streambed to eliminate outward thrust

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/169.2

Database ID Number: 861

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Patent #: 651281

Author(s): W. F. Walker

Date Issued: June 5, 1900

Location:
Town: Charleston
County: Not Listed
State: WV

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, bridge flooring, wood plank, attachment method, wheel guard for

Classifications:
Prime: 73

Database ID Number: 862

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Patent #: 651368

Author(s): John Lanz

Date Issued: June 12, 1900

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Allegheny
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, of four bent channels, tapers to be wider near mid-height

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 863

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Patent #: 655291

Author(s): E. R. Woodruff

Date Issued: August 7, 1900

Location:
Town: Groton
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, using sleeves, for truss with tubular wrought iron or steel top chord.

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 15

Database ID Number: 864

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Patent #: 658687

Author(s): Jesse M. Swift

Date Issued: September 25, 1900

Location:
Town: Selma
County: Fresno
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fire escape bridge, bldg to bldg, using susp bridge principle

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 71.1
3rd: 182/82
4th: 182/113

Database ID Number: 865

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Patent #: 665317

Author(s): David E. Fisher

Date Issued: January 1, 1901

Location:
Town: Kenton
County: Hardin
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, odd ~ huge levers at ends support middle under heavy loads

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 11

Database ID Number: 866

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Patent #: 665718

Author(s): H. J. Armstrong

Date Issued: January 8, 1901

Location:
Town: Markdale
County: Ontario
State: Can

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam with web stiffening that has shape of suspension catenary

Classifications:
Prime: 52/731.2

Database ID Number: 867

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Patent #: 666833

Author(s): Francis Weldon

Date Issued: January 29, 1901

Location:
Town: Early
County: Berks
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle bridge using chains for conn & X-braces, adjustable height

Classifications:
Prime: 73
2nd: 15
3rd: 405/196
4th: 28

Database ID Number: 868

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Patent #: 669979

Author(s): E. T. Bucknam

Date Issued: March 19, 1901

Location:
Town: Tulare
County: Tulare
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss bridge made from modular, prefab, metal panels

Classifications:
Prime: 198/834
2nd: 74.5
3rd: 198/851

Database ID Number: 869

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Patent #: 671133

Author(s): A. V. H. Gisclard

Date Issued: April 2, 1901

Location:
Town: Vincennes
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., two X-braced cables that cross at midspan, like inverted 3-hinged arch

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 870

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Patent #: 671923

Author(s): Richard Petersen

Date Issued: April 9, 1901

Location:
Town: Elberfeld
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, narrow, with big brackets to carry roadways outside, beyond both sides

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 3
3rd: 4
4th: 6

Database ID Number: 871

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Patent #: 676568

Author(s): G. L. Mouchel

Date Issued: June 18, 1901

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
caisson, concrete, bolt-together tubular sections

Classifications:
Prime: 405/195.1
2nd: 52/432
3rd: 114/65A
4th: 405/229

Database ID Number: 872

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Patent #: 677571

Author(s): G. W. Heffner

Date Issued: July 12, 1901

Location:
Town: Dayton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge from many iron open-top boxes that bolt together ~ overhyped rational

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89

Database ID Number: 873

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Patent #: 678239

Author(s): T. G. Gilfillan

Date Issued: July 9, 1901

Location:
Town: Union
County: Union
State: OR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, crescent shaped, laminated wood

Classifications:
Prime: 9
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 874

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Patent #: 680906

Author(s): F. J. Arnodin

Date Issued: August 20, 1901

Location:
Town: Loiret
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed bridge, with suspended span, counterweights help balance

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 875

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Patent #: 682500

Author(s): Warren Shafer

Date Issued: September 10, 1901

Location:
Town: Lagrange
County: Troup
State: GA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, light, X-braced panels with wood plank verticals

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 876

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Patent #: 689610

Author(s): J. E. Gamalielson

Date Issued: December 24, 1901

Location:
Town: Kaumana
County: Hilo
State: HI Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, coupling for wire cables

Classifications:
Prime: 104/115
2nd: 22
3rd: 24/498
4th: 104/117

Database ID Number: 877

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Patent #: 691982

Author(s): Nelson H. Sturgis

Date Issued: January 28, 1902

Location:
Town: Guthrie
County: Logan
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. and conn, trussed full height of cables, improved 629,935

Classifications:
Prime: 18
2nd: 19
3rd: 21
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 878

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Patent #: 693059

Author(s): Gerardo Pascale

Date Issued: February 11, 1902

Location:
Town: Somerville
County: Somerset
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, 4 tubular columns tied by horiz struts & no diags. Install w/o divers

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 405/222

Database ID Number: 879

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Patent #: 693280

Author(s): Louis Lane

Date Issued: February 11, 1902

Location:
Town: Toledo
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arched concrete culvert, built using arched stay-in-place corrug. steel forms

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/447
3rd: 405/150.1

Database ID Number: 880

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Patent #: 696838

Author(s): W. C. Parmley

Date Issued: April 1, 1902

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch culvert ~ re-steel placement in

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 138/175

Database ID Number: 881

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Patent #: 700707

Author(s): A. A. Raymond

Date Issued: May 20, 1902

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. tapered pile, driven using mandrel which is removed and pile filled with conc

Classifications:
Prime: 405/233

Database ID Number: 882

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Patent #: 701034

Author(s): Richard Gray

Date Issued: May 27, 1902

Location:
Town: Bloomington
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, arched, steel plates w/ baffles on outside. Erected, & conc poured over all.

Classifications:
Prime: 405/124
2nd: 52/86

Database ID Number: 883

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Patent #: 708463

Author(s): George M. Cheney

Date Issued: September 2, 1902

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, steel skeleton frame for: holds forms, remains to help carry load

Classifications:
Prime: 52/86
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 884

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Patent #: 709316

Author(s): W. J. Glover

Date Issued: September 16, 1902

Location:
Town: St. Helens
County: Lancaster
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., improved method to place main cables

Classifications:
Prime: 23
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 885

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Patent #: 709794

Author(s): W. C. Parmley

Date Issued: September 23, 1902

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch culvert ~ re-steel details

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 138/144
3rd: 138/153
4th: 138/175

Database ID Number: 886

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Patent #: 712896

Author(s): Gerald Barker

Date Issued: November 4, 1902

Location:
Town: Westminister
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girders or trusses for elevated RR, webs canted =further apart at top than at bot

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5
2nd: 104/124
3rd: 238/26

Database ID Number: 887

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Patent #: 713561

Author(s): Denis Doyen

Date Issued: November 11, 1902

Location:
Town: Brussels
County: Not Listed
State: Belg

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
extendable bridge on lazy-tongs principle

Classifications:
Prime: 45
2nd: 69.5
3rd: 73

Database ID Number: 888

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Patent #: 713684

Author(s): Hermann Prinzhorn

Date Issued: November 18, 1902

Location:
Town: Halle-on-Saale
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge form derived by combining cantilever and suspension forms

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 73.1

Database ID Number: 889

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Patent #: 715390

Author(s): Edgar Kidwell

Date Issued: December 9, 1902

Location:
Town: Houghton
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
adjustable diagonal brace to correct for wood shrinkage, Not really a bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 890

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Patent #: 716160

Author(s): John C. Williams

Date Issued: December 16, 1902

Location:
Town: Kansas City
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., with gearing to maintain road elev. when water rises or falls

Classifications:
Prime: 28
2nd: 104/125

Database ID Number: 891

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Patent #: 718237

Author(s): Casper Zimmerman

Date Issued: January 13, 1903

Location:
Town: Vienna
County: Clark
State: SD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed br. for RR, complex design? different

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 19

Database ID Number: 892

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Patent #: 719979

Author(s): C. A. P. Turner

Date Issued: February 3, 1903

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge, truss, looks much like the one at Duluth, MN

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 104/182

Database ID Number: 893

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Patent #: 721918

Author(s): A. H. Scherzer and C. F. T. Kandeler

Date Issued: March 3, 1903

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge patent, 31 different claims

Classifications:
Prime: 39
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 894

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Patent #: 725695

Author(s): Howard Friend

Date Issued: April 21, 1903

Location:
Town: Lexington
County: Not Listed
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., towers of 4 tubes strapped together

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 21
3rd: 22

Database ID Number: 895

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Patent #: 725753

Author(s): J. F. Morton

Date Issued: April 21, 1903

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck, RR, heavy diag bracing along both sides, top & bottom

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 896

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Patent #: 728768

Author(s): E. E. Salisbury

Date Issued: May 19, 1903

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., improved traveling wheel to place strands of main cables

Classifications:
Prime: 254/134.3R
2nd: 23
3rd: 254/398

Database ID Number: 897

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Patent #: 729016

Author(s): Joseph Tomlinson

Date Issued: May 26, 1903

Location:
Town: Cedar Rapids
County: Linn
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., cables farther apart at towers than middle,thermal compensating device

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 898

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Patent #: 729591

Author(s): P. P. Jacob

Date Issued: June 2, 1903

Location:
Town: Clinton
County: Hinds
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., anchorage of timber for a small bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 52/155
3rd: 135/118

Database ID Number: 899

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Patent #: 731595

Author(s): William Mueser

Date Issued: June 23, 1903

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, elegant reinf conc sidewalks cantilever beyond spandrel walls

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174

Database ID Number: 900

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Patent #: 737679

Author(s): John A. Waddell and Ira G. Hedrick

Date Issued: September 1, 1903

Location:
Town: Kansas City
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, RR, to carry 1 track, that can later be expanded to carry 2

Classifications:
Prime: 3
2nd: 14

Database ID Number: 901

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Patent #: 739984

Author(s): C. A. Case

Date Issued: September 29, 1903

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram, tower-top cradle for susp tramway ( tram: susp cable moves with cars )

Classifications:
Prime: 104/115
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 902

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Patent #: 740039

Author(s): W. C. Parmley

Date Issued: September 29, 1903

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch bridge ~ re-steel details

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/669
3rd: 138/175
4th: 403/384

Database ID Number: 903

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Patent #: 743946

Author(s): E. P. Spaulding

Date Issued: November 10, 1903

Location:
Town: Munson
County: Geauga
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch culvert of I-beams curved in weak direction & bolted together

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 904

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Patent #: 744406

Author(s): B. C. Riblet

Date Issued: November 17, 1903

Location:
Town: Spokane
County: Not Listed
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram, clip to attach hangers to aerial tram rope

Classifications:
Prime: 104/200
2nd: 22
3rd: 24/135L

Database ID Number: 905

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Patent #: 745192

Author(s): Hermann Kampmann

Date Issued: November 24, 1903

Location:
Town: Kupferdreh
County: Kreis Essen
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., tubular metal floats can be turned to bring damaged area above H2O

Classifications:
Prime: 27
2nd: 29

Database ID Number: 906

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Patent #: 746317

Author(s): G. F. Ernst

Date Issued: December 8, 1903

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., clamp to attach hangers to main cable

Classifications:
Prime: 22
2nd: 160/401

Database ID Number: 907

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Patent #: 746679

Author(s): S. B. Cross and A. S. Ours

Date Issued: December 15, 1903

Location:
Town: Mouth of Seneca
County: Pendleton
State: WV

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cable stayed br.

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 908

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Patent #: 747511

Author(s): Joseph Tomlinson

Date Issued: December 22, 1903

Location:
Town: Cedar Rapids
County: Linn
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, bridge deck of crossed, flat iron bars, like a Town lattice laid flat

Classifications:
Prime: 73

Database ID Number: 909

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Patent #: 747660

Author(s): H. T. Swearingen

Date Issued: December 22, 1903

Location:
Town: Guthrie
County: Logan
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier protection, vertical rollers to shed drift, mounted on springs to reduce impact

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 910

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Patent #: 749771

Author(s): E. H. Arnold

Date Issued: January 19, 1904

Location:
Town: Wheaton
County: Dupage
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, reinf w/ pairs of RR rails (top & bot) w/ ties, prior art described

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/414

Database ID Number: 911

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Patent #: 750475

Author(s): J. F. Morton

Date Issued: January 26, 1904

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, pony, heavily-braced box truss forms top chord of shallow king post truss

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 912

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Patent #: 755724

Author(s): Joseph Tomlinson

Date Issued: March 29, 1904

Location:
Town: Cedar Rapids
County: Linn
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., details, and way to prestress roadway's stiffening truss

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 18
3rd: 21
4th: 22

Database ID Number: 913

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Patent #: 756309

Author(s): William Wright

Date Issued: April 5, 1904

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
re-steel for conc beams, interesting comments on, but Not a bridge patent

Classifications:
Prime: 52/690

Database ID Number: 914

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Patent #: 757552

Author(s): S. W. Hill

Date Issued: April 19, 1904

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: Allegheny
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., built-up steel ribs with plates across bottom, filled with concrete

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 915

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Patent #: 757553

Author(s): S. W. Hill

Date Issued: April 19, 1904

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., built-up steel ribs, plates across bottom, filled w/ conc, & steel = centering

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 916

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Patent #: 757804

Author(s): Ernest L. Dildine and James C. Dildine

Date Issued: April 19, 1904

Location:
Town: Cameron
County: Clinton
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, metal bedstead, made from standard roller mill shapes

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 917

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Patent #: 758428

Author(s): W. R. Diehl

Date Issued: April 26, 1904

Location:
Town: Pittsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
spiral bridge approaches to not disturb adjacent city property

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 77.1

Database ID Number: 918

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Patent #: 762361

Author(s): J. B. Strauss and G. J. S. Collins

Date Issued: June 14, 1904

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., reinf-concrete, several separate ribs w/ lat bracing, deck beams encased

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 919

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Patent #: 762632

Author(s): J. W. Headley

Date Issued: June 14, 1904

Location:
Town: Coopers
County: Chilton
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, lwr chords above & below floorbms,+susp.rods=odd lenticular

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 920

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Patent #: 764302

Author(s): W. C. Parmley

Date Issued: July 5, 1904

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch bridge ~ re-steel details

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 138/175

Database ID Number: 921

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Patent #: 768594

Author(s): T. P. Finlay

Date Issued: August 30, 1904

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam or arch made of small overlapping pieces bolted together

Classifications:
Prime: 52/690
2nd: 25
3rd: 52/86

Database ID Number: 922

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Patent #: 768702

Author(s): J. B. Strauss

Date Issued: August 30, 1904

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
details for RR rail support & attachment, & lateral bracing, derailment protection

Classifications:
Prime: 238/86
2nd: 52/89
3rd: 52/174
4th: 52/643

Database ID Number: 923

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Patent #: 770674

Author(s): P. P. Carver

Date Issued: September 20, 1904

Location:
Town: Estill Springs
County: Franklin
State: TN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, way to fix columns in drilled holes in rock ~ like an expansion anchor

Classifications:
Prime: 75
2nd: 52/741.15
3rd: 405/232

Database ID Number: 924

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Patent #: 772615

Author(s): B. F. Hudson

Date Issued: October 18, 1904

Location:
Town: Oklahoma city
County: Not Listed
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, 2 conc-filled metal tubes, flared base, sunk to rock by jetting, cushion in tubes

Classifications:
Prime: 405/222
2nd: 52/261

Database ID Number: 925

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Patent #: 773729

Author(s): Adam Geisel

Date Issued: November 1, 1904

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., trusses (each catilev and 3-hinge arch), encased in conc rib-arches

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 404/1

Database ID Number: 926

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Patent #: 776252

Author(s): Max Moller

Date Issued: November 29, 1904

Location:
Town: Brunswick
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, horizontal concrete friction plate behind spring line to resist thrust

Classifications:
Prime: 52/169.9
2nd: 26
3rd: 405/150.1
4th: 52/251

Database ID Number: 927

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Patent #: 776572

Author(s): Godfrey Ward

Date Issued: December 6, 1904

Location:
Town: Birmingham
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearings that rocks and rolls, & is sealed against weather

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 928

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Patent #: 779298

Author(s): A. S. Miller

Date Issued: January 3, 1905

Location:
Town: Monroe
County: Ouachita
State: LA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
adjustable diagonal brace. Not a bridge. Similar #779,370 & 879,524 not incl here

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 5

Database ID Number: 929

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Patent #: 782027

Author(s): Wilhelm Hildenbrand

Date Issued: February 7, 1905

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., fitting to anchor & adjust ends of strands

Classifications:
Prime: 22

Database ID Number: 930

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Patent #: 782215

Author(s): Charles Bryant

Date Issued: February 14, 1905

Location:
Town: Littleton
County: Arapahoe
State: CO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. with heavy, inefficient wood stiffening truss

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 4
3rd: 21

Database ID Number: 931

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Patent #: 783202

Author(s): Wilhelm Hildenbrand

Date Issued: February 21, 1905

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., improved traveling wheel cable spinning apparatus

Classifications:
Prime: 23

Database ID Number: 932

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Patent #: 785676

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: March 21, 1905

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch bridge, lead hinge at crown, re-steel details

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 138/150
3rd: 138/176
4th: 52/396.05

Database ID Number: 933

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Patent #: 785686

Author(s): Joseph Tomlinson

Date Issued: March 21, 1905

Location:
Town: Cedar Rapids
County: Linn
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., various crazed improvements to 729,016 inclined boom, & wt. tensioner

Classifications:
Prime: 8
2nd: 22

Database ID Number: 934

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Patent #: 786059

Author(s): James Simpson

Date Issued: March 28, 1905

Location:
Town: Veedersburg
County: Fountain
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, precast conc with precast wingwalls & ftgs, angled wings to guide water

Classifications:
Prime: 405/125
2nd: 52/89
3rd: 52/261

Database ID Number: 935

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Patent #: 786874

Author(s): John Cooper

Date Issued: April 11, 1905

Location:
Town: Mt. Vernon
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, cursory description of simple, X-braced truss, cars hang below rails

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 936

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Patent #: 788400

Author(s): Jacob Harsen

Date Issued: April 25, 1905

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable, drawbridge, track-end adjustment machinery

Classifications:
Prime: 104/47
2nd: 26

Database ID Number: 937

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Patent #: 791927

Author(s): F. J. M. Monnier

Date Issued: June 6, 1905

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
foundations, ways to build in weak soil : dig by repeated blows, then fill w/ conc

Classifications:
Prime: 405/229
2nd: 75
3rd: 77.3

Database ID Number: 938

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Patent #: 795899

Author(s): A. O. Cunningham

Date Issued: August 1, 1905

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder, plate girder br. for RR, reinf conc floor that drains to abutmt~ looks "modern"

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 238/7

Database ID Number: 939

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Patent #: 796227

Author(s): John Lally

Date Issued: August 1, 1905

Location:
Town: Waltham
County: Middlesex
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
column, conc-filled steel ~ Eureka ! ~ Origin of ubiquitous "Lally Column"

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160
2nd: 52/283
3rd: 52/721.4

Database ID Number: 940

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Patent #: 799908

Author(s): David Humphrey

Date Issued: September 19, 1905

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, cable-stayed spans for, piers & spans built from tubular pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 104/121
2nd: 104/124

Database ID Number: 941

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Patent #: 802004

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: October 17, 1905

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., conc, centering = light posts w/ much x-bracing, take off bracing to release

Classifications:
Prime: 264/32
2nd: 249/1
3rd: 249/175

Database ID Number: 942

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Patent #: 804744

Author(s): Gustav Lindenthal

Date Issued: November 14, 1905

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed cables like Floriopolis Br. Also, arch br stiffened on same lines

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 21
3rd: 25

Database ID Number: 943

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Patent #: 806587

Author(s): Frank Shuman

Date Issued: December 5, 1905

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier. drive hollow rectangular piles sideXside on perimeter, fill w/ conc, + cross-ties

Classifications:
Prime: 405/222

Database ID Number: 944

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Patent #: 809071

Author(s): P. B. Motley

Date Issued: January 2, 1906

Location:
Town: Montreal
County: Quebec
State: Can

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion bearing that rocks & rolls ~ squeezed 21 different claims from this!

Classifications:
Prime: 73.5

Database ID Number: 945

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Patent #: 809264

Author(s): W. J. Humphreys

Date Issued: January 2, 1906

Location:
Town: Elmwood
County: Peoria
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Pratt, made from old RR rails, improved # 530,265

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 946

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Patent #: 811257

Author(s): J. B. Strauss

Date Issued: January 30, 1906

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete girder-arch, ways to build: prefab shell pieces, placed and filled w/ conc

Classifications:
Prime: 52/319
2nd: 74.5
3rd: 52/426
4th: 52/88

Database ID Number: 947

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Patent #: 813745

Author(s): Rolley C. Self

Date Issued: February 27, 1906

Location:
Town: Norman
County: Cleveland
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
aerial tram or tramway

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 21
3rd: 104/117
4th: 105/148

Database ID Number: 948

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Patent #: 814959

Author(s): W. H. Healy

Date Issued: March 13, 1906

Location:
Town: San Francisco
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, 2 concentric cylinders of vertical wood staves, conc betwn, sand in center

Classifications:
Prime: 52/423
2nd: 217/94
3rd: 405/228

Database ID Number: 949

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Patent #: 815377

Author(s): W. M. Reed

Date Issued: March 20, 1906

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, normal girder constr., but no deck or ties, rails directly atop girders

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 950

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Patent #: 818386

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: April 17, 1906

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch bridge, re-bar location details

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/169.1
3rd: 138/158
4th: 138/176

Database ID Number: 951

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Patent #: 820342

Author(s): Herman Besser

Date Issued: May 8, 1906

Location:
Town: Alpena
County: Alpena
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, precast concrete 3-piece: bottom & 2 side pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 138/157
2nd: 52/88

Database ID Number: 952

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Patent #: 820743

Author(s): O. A. Slater

Date Issued: May 15, 1906

Location:
Town: Pontiac
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge, steel beam & conc, earth-filled and half-baked (idea)

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/319

Database ID Number: 953

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Patent #: 820798

Author(s): Charles Kutz

Date Issued: May 15, 1906

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss design, with conn, using different built-up member shapes

Classifications:
Prime: 14
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 954

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Patent #: 820921

Author(s): G. M. Cheney

Date Issued: May 15, 1906

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, very heavy steel truss reinf., separate panel-pours stop cracks

Classifications:
Prime: 52/98
2nd: 52/88

Database ID Number: 955

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Patent #: 824502

Author(s): Edmond Molloy

Date Issued: June 26, 1906

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, roof & wharf trusses using tubes, especially gas pipe, related to 114,262

Classifications:
Prime: 52/653.2
2nd: 13
3rd: 52/654.1
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 956

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Patent #: 828469

Author(s): C. E. Fowler

Date Issued: August 14, 1906

Location:
Town: Seattle
County: Not Listed
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier ~ 2 tubular conc columns conn by shear wall, core and facing are diff pours

Classifications:
Prime: 405/229
2nd: 256/19

Database ID Number: 957

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Patent #: 830483

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: September 4, 1906

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete br., smooth,cheap, main re-bars +deformd smaller bars in tension areas

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/740.3
3rd: 52/740.9
4th: 138/176

Database ID Number: 958

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Patent #: 831225

Author(s): S. B. Harding

Date Issued: September 18, 1906

Location:
Town: Waukesha
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge, high span cantilev beyond piers, its ends tied to appro spans

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 21

Database ID Number: 959

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Patent #: 834621

Author(s): Joseph Inman

Date Issued: October 30, 1906

Location:
Town: Sherman
County: Grayson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, lower chord = rod or cable

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 15

Database ID Number: 960

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Patent #: 837647

Author(s): J. B. Strauss

Date Issued: December 4, 1906

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck for RR br., reduced amt of ballast, assigned to Strauss Bascule & Conc Br Co

Classifications:
Prime: 238/2

Database ID Number: 961

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Patent #: 837796

Author(s): G. H. Chavey

Date Issued: December 4, 1906

Location:
Town: Winooski
County: Chittenden
State: VT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge betwn bldgs, retracts when fire, stopping spread (dooming occupants?)

Classifications:
Prime: 78

Database ID Number: 962

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Patent #: 838485

Author(s): W. E. Whiteside

Date Issued: December 11, 1906

Location:
Town: Mangum
County: Greer
State: OK Terr

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, pony, and conn, for combined RR and wagon road

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 963

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Patent #: 840224

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: January 1, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete br., arch, & box culvert w/ reinf conc bottom below streambed, 15 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/169.1

Database ID Number: 964

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Patent #: 840801

Author(s): D. M. Pfautz

Date Issued: January 8, 1907

Location:
Town: Germantown
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, lattice-trusses w/ cable-stays to help, cars hang below rails

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 191/35

Database ID Number: 965

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Patent #: 842457

Author(s): S. B. Harding

Date Issued: January 29, 1907

Location:
Town: Waukesha
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
transporter bridge, called "aerial ferry", both susp br. & truss forms, 26 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 104/90
2nd: 43
3rd: 104/108
4th: 104/123

Database ID Number: 966

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Patent #: 845897

Author(s): Samuel Richardson

Date Issued: March 5, 1907

Location:
Town: Tulare
County: Tulare
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
guardrail, bridge railing that folds down for wide loads

Classifications:
Prime: 78

Database ID Number: 967

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Patent #: 846291

Author(s): James A. Emerson

Date Issued: March 5, 1907

Location:
Town: Oxford
County: Benton
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, steel grating, many closely-spaced small steel beams, spaces filled w/ conc

Classifications:
Prime: 52/663
2nd: 52/319
3rd: 52/666
4th: 404/43

Database ID Number: 968

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Patent #: 846659

Author(s): George Glascock

Date Issued: March 12, 1907

Location:
Town: Veedersburg
County: Fountain
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete-encased steel beam br., the beams support reusable forms

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 122/406.1

Database ID Number: 969

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Patent #: 852970

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 7, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, details of wingwalls, sprandrel wall, tie under creek. 51 claims!

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/169.1

Database ID Number: 970

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Patent #: 852971

Author(s): Daniel B. Luten

Date Issued: May 7, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, concrete, ~ a big Luten patent (33 claims!) including tension re-steel

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 26
3rd: 54
4th: 76

Database ID Number: 971

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Patent #: 853183

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 7, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., conc, early but very good reinforcing design, also, ribbed arch 35 claims!

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 972

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Patent #: 853202

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 7, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete box culvert w/ headwalls, reinforcing for it but 23 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174

Database ID Number: 973

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Patent #: 853203

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 7, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, re-bar placement for best economy 22 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 974

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Patent #: 853204

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 7, 1907

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br., helped by integral girders full length. 31 claims = Luten-spam

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/319

Database ID Number: 975

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Patent #: 854329

Author(s): Ferdinand Charron

Date Issued: May 21, 1907

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
portable military bridge to cross ditches

Classifications:
Prime: 2.4
2nd: 14
3rd: 69.5
4th: 193/41

Database ID Number: 976

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Patent #: 855986

Author(s): E. J. Schauwecker

Date Issued: June 4, 1907

Location:
Town: Clay City
County: Clay
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. cables & hangers encased in side walls of conc arch, to strengthen arch

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 20

Database ID Number: 977

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Patent #: 857505

Author(s): Joseph Welfle

Date Issued: June 18, 1907

Location:
Town: Hamler
County: Henry
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, stringer br., steel bms with long precast conc blocks betwn, post-tens transv

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174

Database ID Number: 978

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Patent #: 858965

Author(s): D. M. Dever

Date Issued: July 2, 1907

Location:
Town: Qulin
County: Butler
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, pitifully weak girder splice

Classifications:
Prime: 403/45
2nd: 14
3rd: 74.5

Database ID Number: 979

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Patent #: 861002

Author(s): Cliford D. Voris

Date Issued: July 23, 1907

Location:
Town: Crawfordsville
County: Montgomery
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, top and bot halves with connecting strips on each side

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 980

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Patent #: 862292

Author(s): Martin J. Stoffer

Date Issued: August 6, 1907

Location:
Town: Capac
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, semicircular conc sections w/ longit ribs, post-tension rods clamp sectns

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 138/155
3rd: 138/175
4th: 405/124

Database ID Number: 981

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Patent #: 867477

Author(s): J. M. Carroll

Date Issued: October 1, 1907

Location:
Town: Weatherford
County: Parker
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss with 3-pinned lowr chord conn, one lowr chord bar, perhaps + susp cables

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 982

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Patent #: 867776

Author(s): M. A. Abbott

Date Issued: October 8, 1907

Location:
Town: Chrisney
County: Spencer
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc. pre-formed, steel-strap reinforcing (incl floor ties) for concrete arch br.

Classifications:
Prime: 24

Database ID Number: 983

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Patent #: 879567

Author(s): H. L. Mortimer

Date Issued: February 18, 1908

Location:
Town: Sound Beach
County: Farifield
State: CT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam, adjustable-length post for inverted A-frame, to strengthen & camber beams

Classifications:
Prime: 5
2nd: 74/519

Database ID Number: 984

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Patent #: 882081

Author(s): Julius H. Schlafly

Date Issued: March 17, 1908

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, top and bot halves conn by longitudinal flanges

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 985

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Patent #: 884498

Author(s): James R. King

Date Issued: April 14, 1908

Location:
Town: Petersburg
County: Pike
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, interlocking conc blocks for building semicircular culverts

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 52/169.1
3rd: D25/113

Database ID Number: 986

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Patent #: 885386

Author(s): Walter Sharp

Date Issued: April 21, 1908

Location:
Town: Eldorado
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete girder br., re-steel to be placed in "any suitable manner"~ pretty fuzzy

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 52/414

Database ID Number: 987

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Patent #: 886666

Author(s): W. M. Thomas

Date Issued: May 5, 1908

Location:
Town: Santa Cruz
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch. concrete, precast half-arches, and erection method

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 26
3rd: 52/745.08

Database ID Number: 988

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Patent #: 887008

Author(s): M. A. Morton

Date Issued: May 5, 1908

Location:
Town: Brownwood
County: Brown
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, unnecessarily complex & bad design, unsuitable for bridges

Classifications:
Prime: 52/648.1
2nd: 75
3rd: 52/737.2

Database ID Number: 989

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Patent #: 887189

Author(s): M. O. Burnett

Date Issued: May 12, 1908

Location:
Town: Des Moines
County: Not Listed
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br., longit re-bars are short & hooked, stiched togethr by transv bars

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/660

Database ID Number: 990

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Patent #: 887284

Author(s): Martin J. Stoffer

Date Issued: May 12, 1908

Location:
Town: Capac
County: St. Clair
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, from precast conc pieces w/ ribs & post-tensioning rods, keyway interfaces

Classifications:
Prime: 405/126
2nd: 52/155
3rd: 52/223.7
4th: 52/89

Database ID Number: 991

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Patent #: 889870

Author(s): A. Z. Chiodo

Date Issued: June 8, 1908

Location:
Town: Cairo
County: Not Listed
State: Egyp

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, bricks with metal reinforcing ties

Classifications:
Prime: 405/284
2nd: 52/379
3rd: 52/428

Database ID Number: 992

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Patent #: 890769

Author(s): William S. Hewett

Date Issued: June 16, 1908

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc. bridge from precast conc beams. Much like today's side-by-side box beams

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 73
3rd: 52/602

Database ID Number: 993

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Patent #: 891417

Author(s): Howard Friend

Date Issued: June 23, 1908

Location:
Town: Lexington
County: Cleveland
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., complicated, conn for, bit like a Fink, bit like cable-stayed, bit just weird

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 994

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Patent #: 893495

Author(s): C. T. Harvey

Date Issued: July 14, 1908

Location:
Town: Toronto
County: Not Listed
State: Can

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR system, various details for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 191/30

Database ID Number: 995

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Patent #: 893640

Author(s): Ernst A. Moccetti

Date Issued: July 21, 1908

Location:
Town: Paris
County: Not Listed
State: Fra

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girders, reinf conc, Beautiful but... Did he see JC Maxwell's paper on least-wt bms?

Classifications:
Prime: 52/724.4
2nd: 52/88
3rd: 52/633
4th: 52/659

Database ID Number: 996

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Patent #: 900039

Author(s): Julius H. Schlafly

Date Issued: September 29, 1908

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, like his #882,081 but with non-corrug at bot to drain all water

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159
2nd: 138/100
3rd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 997

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Patent #: 901569

Author(s): Cliford D. Voris

Date Issued: October 20, 1908

Location:
Town: Crawfordsville
County: Montgomery
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, overlapped pieces bolted together, 9 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 285/403
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 138/173
4th: 285/903

Database ID Number: 998

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Patent #: 903630

Author(s): Oscar Thomas

Date Issued: November 10, 1908

Location:
Town: Grunberg
County: Silesia
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. with cable & pulley at each suspender to equalize tension

Classifications:
Prime: 18

Database ID Number: 999

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Patent #: 903909

Author(s): C. R. Steiner

Date Issued: November 17, 1908

Location:
Town: Gridley Col.8
County: Butte
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc, prestressed re-bars in concrete, early & crude, but clearly prestressing

Classifications:
Prime: 264/228
2nd: 52/223.3
3rd: 52/223.8
4th: 52/250

Database ID Number: 1000

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Patent #: 904651

Author(s): Julius H. Schlafly

Date Issued: November 24, 1908

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, with top & bot halves conn by lousy, leaky clips

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1001

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Patent #: 913359

Author(s): W. M. Caswell

Date Issued: February 23, 1909

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Warren
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, metal, heavy non-corrug. with circumfrential straps

Classifications:
Prime: 285/331
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 285/405

Database ID Number: 1002

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Patent #: 914963

Author(s): Howard Mallery

Date Issued: March 9, 1909

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, structural plate corrug. metal, with uncorrug. bottom 1/4 to speed water

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1003

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Patent #: 915261

Author(s): J. A. Atwood

Date Issued: March 16, 1909

Location:
Town: Beaver
County: Beaver
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
guardrails, "skid girders", to protect RR truss from derailed cars

Classifications:
Prime: 6

Database ID Number: 1004

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Patent #: 915316

Author(s): W. M. Thomas

Date Issued: March 16, 1909

Location:
Town: Santa Cruz
County: Santa Cruz
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, reinforced concrete, precast, 3-hinged, elaborate details for

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 24
3rd: 52/600

Database ID Number: 1005

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Patent #: 915377

Author(s): D. M. Pfautz and J. L. Luckenbach

Date Issued: March 16, 1909

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, truss designs for piers & spans (Warren truss), cars hang below rails

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94

Database ID Number: 1006

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Patent #: 915378

Author(s): D. M. Pfautz and J. L. Luckenbach

Date Issued: March 16, 1909

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, stiffening diaphrams for trusses of 915,377 17 separate claims

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/242
3rd: 191/29R

Database ID Number: 1007

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Patent #: 916159

Author(s): G. W. Jackson

Date Issued: March 23, 1909

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier ~ drive I-beams in circle, wrap many horiz cables around circle, fill w/ stones

Classifications:
Prime: 405/224

Database ID Number: 1008

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Patent #: 918366

Author(s): H. J. Quereau

Date Issued: April 13, 1909

Location:
Town: Baldwinsville
County: Onondanga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch formed from conc slab having many transv grooves on bot --> flexes into curve

Classifications:
Prime: 52/98
2nd: 52/89
3rd: 52/631

Database ID Number: 1009

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Patent #: 918723

Author(s): Charles F. Alt

Date Issued: April 20, 1909

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Warren
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, top & bot halves, another minor variation

Classifications:
Prime: 285/406
2nd: 138/102
3rd: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1010

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Patent #: 921750

Author(s): J. B. Strauss

Date Issued: May 18, 1909

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, observation RR for parks, fuzzy arches or beams, claims are very general

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/246

Database ID Number: 1011

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Patent #: 923058

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 25, 1909

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method for concrete arch, phased constr to reduce cracks, 25 claims total

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/741.1

Database ID Number: 1012

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Patent #: 925019

Author(s): Morden F. Parks and Oswald Parks

Date Issued: June 15, 1909

Location:
Town: Capac
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, precast conc, semicircular sections w/ metal plate reinf & 1 post-tens rod

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 138/155
3rd: 138/175
4th: 405/126

Database ID Number: 1013

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Patent #: 926034

Author(s): Oscar Thomas

Date Issued: June 22, 1909

Location:
Town: Grunberg
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., main anchorage for, improvemt on 903,630, looks complex & unreliable

Classifications:
Prime: 21
2nd: 74/110

Database ID Number: 1014

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Patent #: 932483

Author(s): J. D. Luttrell

Date Issued: August 31, 1909

Location:
Town: Kingston
County: Marshall
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., small, cable shaped like inverted gothic arch, tubular floorbeams

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 1015

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Patent #: 933771

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: September 14, 1909

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, centering & spandrel wall forms for

Classifications:
Prime: 264/32
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1016

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Patent #: 934673

Author(s): William N. Klotz

Date Issued: September 21, 1909

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, bot 1/4 uncorrug. to speed water, also pipe-arch shape

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1017

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Patent #: 937338

Author(s): J. B. Strauss

Date Issued: October 19, 1909

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR bridge, shields & skirts to reduce noise

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 105/452
3rd: 238/382
4th: 238/7

Database ID Number: 1018

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Patent #: 938718

Author(s): A. R. Smith

Date Issued: November 2, 1909

Location:
Town: Marion
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, centering for conc deck that arches between stringers, easy removal

Classifications:
Prime: 249/211
2nd: 249/24

Database ID Number: 1019

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Patent #: 940326

Author(s): J. F. Kaspar

Date Issued: November 16, 1909

Location:
Town: Prague
County: Saunders
State: NE

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch bridge, from concrete blocks precast in corrug forms for interlock, earth fill

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/378
4th: 52/639

Database ID Number: 1020

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Patent #: 942256

Author(s): Alfred G. Hague

Date Issued: December 7, 1909

Location:
Town: Des Moines
County: Polk
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, spiral wound, connect w/ bands ~ looks very modern

Classifications:
Prime: 285/322
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 138/172
4th: 403/313

Database ID Number: 1021

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Patent #: 942447

Author(s): C. W. Horton

Date Issued: December 7, 1909

Location:
Town: Belle Rive
County: Jefferson
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
low water ford, conc with culvert opening & higher footbridge for use during floods

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 404/70

Database ID Number: 1022

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Patent #: 947773

Author(s): James F. Dolan

Date Issued: January 25, 1910

Location:
Town: Revere
County: Suffolk
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another minor variation. How do these guys do so much with wrinkled plate?

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160
2nd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 1023

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Patent #: 949020

Author(s): W. C. Lawson

Date Issued: February 15, 1910

Location:
Town: Roanoke
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, reusable steel deck truss, piers, track 27 claims but very weak structure

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124

Database ID Number: 1024

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Patent #: 949093

Author(s): G. H. Sherwood

Date Issued: February 15, 1910

Location:
Town: Dayton
County: Campbell
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, forming for concrete construction

Classifications:
Prime: 249/23
2nd: 23
3rd: 182/149
4th: 24

Database ID Number: 1025

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Patent #: 949568

Author(s): Charles H. Freeman

Date Issued: February 15, 1910

Location:
Town: Bloomington
County: McLean
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, "structural plate" style construction

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 1026

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Patent #: 951123

Author(s): James B. Jarmin

Date Issued: March 10, 1910

Location:
Town: Sokane
County: Spokane
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, with top & bot halves, another minor variation

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1027

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Patent #: 951124

Author(s): James B. Jarmin

Date Issued: March 8, 1910

Location:
Town: Sokane
County: Spokane
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, with flat bottom & inverted "U" shape

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 1028

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Patent #: 951279

Author(s): James B. Jarmin

Date Issued: March 8, 1910

Location:
Town: Sokane
County: Spokane
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, with top & bot halves, another minor variation

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1029

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Patent #: 951289

Author(s): T. A. Schaffer

Date Issued: March 8, 1910

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck expansion joints, waterproof shield for

Classifications:
Prime: 73.1
2nd: 73
3rd: 16/337
4th: 404/69

Database ID Number: 1030

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Patent #: 951379

Author(s): Alexander Norman

Date Issued: March 8, 1910

Location:
Town: Gilroy
County: Santa Clara
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., transported in a big coil and rolled out over river

Classifications:
Prime: 27

Database ID Number: 1031

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Patent #: 951874

Author(s): W. A. Wood

Date Issued: March 15, 1910

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for RR dump cars to build fill, part decked, adjustable hangers, towers roll

Classifications:
Prime: 238/11
2nd: 18
3rd: 104/123
4th: 238/123

Database ID Number: 1032

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Patent #: 954750

Author(s): J. E. Mandeville

Date Issued: April 12, 1910

Location:
Town: Hawley
County: Wayne
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc girder br., integral deck, draped reinf that can be post-tensioned (turn-of-nut)

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 52/319

Database ID Number: 1033

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Patent #: 954925

Author(s): Charles Brossmann

Date Issued: April 12, 1910

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete br., where re-steel size & spacing varies w/ stress at location

Classifications:
Prime: 52/644
2nd: 52/87
3rd: 52/649.1
4th: 52/740.1

Database ID Number: 1034

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Patent #: 965357

Author(s): P. Aylett

Date Issued: July 26, 1910

Location:
Town: Portsmouth
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp bridge to hold formwork for, & moulds for, segmental conc arch bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 249/1
2nd: 73.1
3rd: 249/83

Database ID Number: 1035

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Patent #: 965358

Author(s): Philip Aylett

Date Issued: July 26, 1910

Location:
Town: Portsmouth
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr., susp br. principle centering to build segmental conc arch

Classifications:
Prime: 249/1
2nd: 18
3rd: 249/83
4th: 52/87

Database ID Number: 1036

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Patent #: 968552

Author(s): W. H. Greer

Date Issued: August 30, 1910

Location:
Town: Sherman
County: Grayson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., poor lateral bracing (main anchor = buried log)

Classifications:
Prime: 20

Database ID Number: 1037

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Patent #: 974225

Author(s): R. L. Allen

Date Issued: November 1, 1910

Location:
Town: Syracuse
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss to hold trolley wires, members = angles with flattened ends

Classifications:
Prime: 52/736.2
2nd: 13
3rd: 52/691
4th: 191/41

Database ID Number: 1038

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Patent #: 978222

Author(s): Julius H. Schlafly

Date Issued: December 13, 1910

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, annular corrug. w/ modern-looking "band" to conn pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 285/410
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 1039

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Patent #: 978361

Author(s): R. A. Cummings

Date Issued: December 13, 1910

Location:
Town: Beaver
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br., reinforcing for, use many small stirrups to prevent spalling

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88

Database ID Number: 1040

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Patent #: 979776

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: December 27, 1910

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc, reinforced, for bldgs & bridges, re-steel locations

Classifications:
Prime: 52/724.1
2nd: 52/690

Database ID Number: 1041

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Patent #: 980191

Author(s): E. M. Boynton

Date Issued: January 3, 1911

Location:
Town: West Newbury
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, simple cable-stay span, deep rail = beam, piers & beam encased in conc

Classifications:
Prime: 104/121
2nd: 104/125
3rd: 191/30

Database ID Number: 1042

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Patent #: 980442

Author(s): Julius H. Schlafly

Date Issued: January 3, 1911

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, semicircular corrug top piece on flat steel plate bot (rudimentary pipe-arch)

Classifications:
Prime: 405/48
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 138/173
4th: 405/49

Database ID Number: 1043

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Patent #: 981991

Author(s): Carl A. Forssell

Date Issued: January 17, 1911

Location:
Town: Stockholm
County: Not Listed
State: Swe

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., submerged pontoons, tied to bottom using adjustable-length rods

Classifications:
Prime: 28

Database ID Number: 1044

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Patent #: 984878

Author(s): Philip Aylett

Date Issued: February 21, 1911

Location:
Town: Portsmouth
County: Not Listed
State: VA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, in segments, rebar extends & poured keys to join, centering for

Classifications:
Prime: 52/750
2nd: 18
3rd: 26
4th: 52/89

Database ID Number: 1045

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Patent #: 985763

Author(s): H. D. Robinson

Date Issued: February 28, 1911

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., cable wrapping machine

Classifications:
Prime: 57/10
2nd: 23
3rd: 254/134.3CL

Database ID Number: 1046

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Patent #: 987693

Author(s): E. F. Von Borries

Date Issued: March 28, 1911

Location:
Town: White Bear Lake
County: Washington
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, "structural plate" constr., in top & bot halves

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159
2nd: 138/100
3rd: 29/897

Database ID Number: 1047

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Patent #: 988764

Author(s): C. A. Forssell

Date Issued: April 4, 1911

Location:
Town: Stockholm
County: Not Listed
State: Swed

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, reinf concrete, hollow

Classifications:
Prime: 405/195.1

Database ID Number: 1048

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Patent #: 989343

Author(s): Ferdinand J. Feldt

Date Issued: April 11, 1911

Location:
Town: Peoria
County: Peoria
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, bands to connect adjacent sections

Classifications:
Prime: 285/399
2nd: 138/160
3rd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 1049

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Patent #: 998523

Author(s): W. H. Jones

Date Issued: July 18, 1911

Location:
Town: Leavenworth
County: Not Listed
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck hangs from small trusses bolted to main & forming br railing

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 1050

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Patent #: 999466

Author(s): F. A. Richter

Date Issued: August 1, 1911

Location:
Town: Rudolstadt
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
toy bridge, snap-together~ included just for fun & to note that such patents exist

Classifications:
Prime: 446/108
2nd: 77.1
3rd: 238/10B
4th: 446/127

Database ID Number: 1051

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Patent #: 1001378

Author(s): Ferdinand J. Feldt

Date Issued: August 22, 1911

Location:
Town: Peoria
County: Peoria
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, of top & bot halves, and ledge to fasten together

Classifications:
Prime: 138/155
2nd: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1052

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Patent #: 1002944

Author(s): C. A. P. Turner

Date Issued: September 12, 1911

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch br., A patent for open-spandrel conc arch? Forms held by arch re-steel

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1053

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Patent #: 1002945

Author(s): C. A. P. Turner

Date Issued: September 12, 1911

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, reinf conc flat slab br ~ his famous 4-way reinforcing patent, integral abutmts

Classifications:
Prime: 52/261
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1054

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Patent #: 1004051

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: September 26, 1911

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch br., skewed with earth fill, arch is thicker where forces concentrate

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1055

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Patent #: 1007299

Author(s): J. A. Lynch

Date Issued: October 31, 1911

Location:
Town: Spokane
County: Not Listed
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever br., reinf conc, pier =tube monolithic w/ semicircular beam spans for RR

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1056

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Patent #: 1009676

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: November 21, 1911

Location:
Town: Lafayette
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br., longit. re-bars bent to pass through the tension zones

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88

Database ID Number: 1057

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Patent #: 1010450

Author(s): John Olson

Date Issued: December 5, 1911

Location:
Town: Lyle
County: Mower
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, "structural plate" constr., in top & bot halves

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 1058

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Patent #: 1019458

Author(s): W. H. Greer

Date Issued: March 5, 1912

Location:
Town: Sherman
County: Grayson
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., stiffened vertically by stay cables & big king-post truss, poor lat bracing

Classifications:
Prime: 20

Database ID Number: 1059

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Patent #: 1019621

Author(s): Joseph W. Fawkes and Emma C. Fawkes

Date Issued: March 5, 1912

Location:
Town: Burbank
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, crude susp bridge support, no vert stiffening, poor support for towers

Classifications:
Prime: 104/93
2nd: 104/123
3rd: 191/41

Database ID Number: 1060

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Patent #: 1019655

Author(s): Thomas Kalla

Date Issued: March 5, 1912

Location:
Town: Oppeln
County: Not Listed
State: Ger

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
portable bridge having little shear strength at end

Classifications:
Prime: 2.4

Database ID Number: 1061

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Patent #: 1020002

Author(s): George W. Warner

Date Issued: March 12, 1912

Location:
Town: Topeka
County: Shawnee
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, spiral or annular corrug., ways of connecting pieces

Classifications:
Prime: 285/403
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 138/173
4th: 184/13.1

Database ID Number: 1062

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Patent #: 1020570

Author(s): Jerome Orlay

Date Issued: March 19, 1912

Location:
Town: Temsche
County: Not Listed
State: Belg

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, piers made by bending over living trees (objectionable constr. time)

Classifications:
Prime: 104/94
2nd: 104/125
3rd: 191/50

Database ID Number: 1063

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Patent #: 1020779

Author(s): Herbert S. Putney

Date Issued: March 19, 1912

Location:
Town: Topeka
County: Shawnee
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, band to connect adjacent pieces, & end-protecting bead

Classifications:
Prime: 285/406
2nd: 138/160
3rd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 1064

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Patent #: 1023781

Author(s): A. D. Kerstetter

Date Issued: April 16, 1912

Location:
Town: Oriental
County: Juniata
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch, precast from several pieces. Design is too complex, text more so

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89

Database ID Number: 1065

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Patent #: 1027742

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 28, 1912

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., multispan, way to prevent unbalanced force toppling all spans if 1 fails

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87

Database ID Number: 1066

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Patent #: 1033106

Author(s): Julius Kahn

Date Issued: July 23, 1912

Location:
Town: Detroit
County: Not Listed
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam bridge w/ conc deck that curves down near abuts (fig 9) seems minor

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/306
3rd: 52/321

Database ID Number: 1067

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Patent #: 1035026

Author(s): James B. Marsh

Date Issued: August 6, 1912

Location:
Town: Des Moines
County: Not Listed
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., reinf concrete, the famous Marsh Arch patent, fine dwgs & elegant details

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/334

Database ID Number: 1068

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Patent #: 1036546

Author(s): George A. Belding

Date Issued: August 27, 1912

Location:
Town: Missoula
County: Missoula
State: MT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, badly shaped almost circle, top & bot halves to save shipping space

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160
2nd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 1069

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Patent #: 1037709

Author(s): Frank B. Zeig

Date Issued: September 3, 1912

Location:
Town: Fredericktown
County: Knox
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, metal, heavy cast, with spaced annular ribs, bell & spigot

Classifications:
Prime: 285/189
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 138/172

Database ID Number: 1070

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Patent #: 1040046

Author(s): William B. Stambaugh

Date Issued: October 1, 1912

Location:
Town: Woodsboro
County: Frederick
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another darn way of connecting top & bot halves

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1071

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Patent #: 1043497

Author(s): C. W. Abernethy

Date Issued: November 5, 1912

Location:
Town: Pioneer Mills
County: Cabarrus
State: NC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
flood-resisting clamp between superstructure and substructure of bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 73.1

Database ID Number: 1072

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Patent #: 1047464

Author(s): A. C. Tirapani

Date Issued: December 17, 1912

Location:
Town: Bologna
County: Not Listed
State: Italy

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
gabions (stone-filled wire baskets for erosion control) says earlier common use

Classifications:
Prime: 405/273

Database ID Number: 1073

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Patent #: 1048843

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: December 31, 1912

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br., plan to tie abuts & wings togeth'r so each helps other & retain fill

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88

Database ID Number: 1074

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Patent #: 1049543

Author(s): Andrew Smith

Date Issued: January 7, 1913

Location:
Town: San Mateo
County: San Mateo
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, top & bot halves with folded edges, also flat bot

Classifications:
Prime: 285/405
2nd: 138/159
3rd: 256/73
4th: 285/189

Database ID Number: 1075

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Patent #: 1050871

Author(s): Karl Thorsby

Date Issued: January 21, 1913

Location:
Town: Oakland
County: Alameda
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, way to connect adjacent sections

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 1076

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Patent #: 1052048

Author(s): Howard Friend

Date Issued: February 4, 1913

Location:
Town: Lexington
County: Cleveland
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. "improvement" (choke) on 891,417 for aerial trolleys with wheels on top

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 1077

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Patent #: 1052971

Author(s): Salvatore Sanna

Date Issued: February 11, 1913

Location:
Town: Olinghouse
County: Washoe
State: NV

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., roadway = taut cables with no stiffening, connected to main susp cables

Classifications:
Prime: 20

Database ID Number: 1078

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Patent #: 1053134

Author(s): Frank B. Zeig

Date Issued: February 11, 1913

Location:
Town: Fredericktown
County: Knox
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, metal, heavy cast, with spaced annular ribs, bell & spigot

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159

Database ID Number: 1079

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Patent #: 1058198

Author(s): Julius H. Schlafly

Date Issued: April 8, 1913

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another minor variation in connecting top & bot halves of culvert

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1080

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Patent #: 1060566

Author(s): C. T. Harvey

Date Issued: April 29, 1913

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, ornamental, light-transmitting, low noise structure w/ sidewalk

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/133
3rd: 119/442

Database ID Number: 1081

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Patent #: 1060917

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 6, 1913

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, 2 arch rings, one atop other w/ gap, top ring sags along rd CL

Classifications:
Prime: 52/81.6
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/261

Database ID Number: 1082

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Patent #: 1060918

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 6, 1913

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br., top & bottom arch plates, earth betwn, top plate goes far into ftg

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/261

Database ID Number: 1083

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Patent #: 1060920

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 6, 1913

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br, concrete, form & pour arch ring in several longit segments, sequentially

Classifications:
Prime: 264/32
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 264/33

Database ID Number: 1084

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Patent #: 1060921

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 6, 1913

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method for concrete arch spandral walls, (integral w/ arch, joint at ea pier)

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/741.1

Database ID Number: 1085

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Patent #: 1060922

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: May 6, 1913

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br, top & bot arch plates, earth betwn, top plate dished, diag rebars

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88

Database ID Number: 1086

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Patent #: 1061418

Author(s): George Stinson

Date Issued: May 13, 1913

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Cuyahoga
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, faceted metal tube, to esp & contract with temperature change

Classifications:
Prime: 138/28
2nd: 138/159

Database ID Number: 1087

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Patent #: 1063156

Author(s): F. H. Cohen and M. G. Hilpert

Date Issued: May 27, 1913

Location:
Town: Harrisburg
County: Dauphin
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
jack, hydraulic, to lift very heavy weights (such as bridge spans)

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 254/92

Database ID Number: 1088

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Patent #: 1064876

Author(s): J. T. Trujillo

Date Issued: June 17, 1913

Location:
Town: Malachite
County: Huerfano
State: CO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge, many wood blocks (like stone arch) reinforc w/ pins & long stl plates

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89

Database ID Number: 1089

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Patent #: 1065429

Author(s): Alex Bruce

Date Issued: June 24, 1913

Location:
Town: Fargo
County: Cass
State: ND

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another minor variation in connecting top & bot halves of culvert

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1090

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Patent #: 1067616

Author(s): Harry E. Matteson

Date Issued: July 15, 1913

Location:
Town: Maud
County: Pottawatomie
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
two-panel inverted A-frame truss~ claims live load makes br stronger, so can't fail

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 1091

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Patent #: 1073794

Author(s): Jens P. Christensen

Date Issued: September 23, 1913

Location:
Town: Copenhagen
County: Not Listed
State: Den

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., watertight boxes, pin-conn to prevent tipping & allow flexing at launch

Classifications:
Prime: 27
2nd: 71.1

Database ID Number: 1092

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Patent #: 1073965

Author(s): John H. Dean

Date Issued: September 23, 1913

Location:
Town: Birmingham
County: Jefferson
State: AL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, claimed only special bolts to hold pieces together

Classifications:
Prime: 138/159
2nd: 285/903
3rd: 411/401

Database ID Number: 1093

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Patent #: 1074941

Author(s): Howard Friend

Date Issued: October 7, 1913

Location:
Town: Lexington
County: Cleveland
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., improved 891,417 ~ improved saddle blocks

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 1094

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Patent #: 1077508

Author(s): G. M. D. Bell

Date Issued: November 4, 1913

Location:
Town: Lucerne
County: Cass
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, drift wheel =horiz rotating drums push logs down & past pier, spring mounted

Classifications:
Prime: 405/211

Database ID Number: 1095

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Patent #: 1082578

Author(s): Arthur A. Ambler

Date Issued: December 30, 1913

Location:
Town: Middletown
County: Butler
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another minor variation in connecting top & bot halves of culvert

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1096

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Patent #: 1083002

Author(s): George H. Charls

Date Issued: December 30, 1913

Location:
Town: Middletown
County: Butler
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, structural plate corrug. metal, way to safeguard during shipping, & connection

Classifications:
Prime: 285/411
2nd: 138/160
3rd: 138/173

Database ID Number: 1097

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Patent #: 1085649

Author(s): S. S. Webber

Date Issued: February 3, 1914

Location:
Town: Trenton
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br. for RR dump cars to fill depressions, half deck only, much like 951,874

Classifications:
Prime: 238/11
2nd: 104/123

Database ID Number: 1098

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Patent #: 1086678

Author(s): J. B. Marsh

Date Issued: February 10, 1914

Location:
Town: Des Moines
County: Not Listed
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. precast sq concrete piles driven, then bridge or bldg cast on & against piles

Classifications:
Prime: 405/229
2nd: 52/252

Database ID Number: 1099

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Patent #: 1089488

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: March 10, 1914

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, tied arch using re-bars in a conc streambed floor "paving"

Classifications:
Prime: 264/32
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 264/34
4th: 52/745.07

Database ID Number: 1100

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Patent #: 1090081

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: March 10, 1914

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, tied, conc, built so span length can be increased at later date

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 2
3rd: 52/174
4th: 52/741.1

Database ID Number: 1101

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Patent #: 1094949

Author(s): H. S. Taft

Date Issued: April 28, 1914

Location:
Town: Seattle
County: Not Listed
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier, special caisson & equipment for driving foundation piling in deep water

Classifications:
Prime: 405/228
2nd: 173/122
3rd: 405/232
4th: 175/9

Database ID Number: 1102

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Patent #: 1095202

Author(s): Howard Friend

Date Issued: May 5, 1914

Location:
Town: Lexington
County: Cleveland
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., improved 891,417 ~ X-bracing between floorbeams for lateral stiffness

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 73

Database ID Number: 1103

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Patent #: 1096183

Author(s): W. E. Moore

Date Issued: May 12, 1914

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete girder br. for RR, 2 main girders, rails embeded in deck, modern re-steel

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174
2nd: 52/254

Database ID Number: 1104

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Patent #: 1096985

Author(s): Franklin E. Arndt

Date Issued: May 19, 1914

Location:
Town: Galion
County: Crawford
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another minor variation in connecting top & bot halves of culvert

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1105

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Patent #: 1097269

Author(s): W. M. Thomas

Date Issued: May 19, 1914

Location:
Town: Oceanside
County: San Diego
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, concrete, open spandrel, all precast & bolted together

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 2
3rd: 52/250
4th: 52/252

Database ID Number: 1106

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Patent #: 1098243

Author(s): Olin Freeny

Date Issued: May 26, 1914

Location:
Town: Carthage
County: Leake
State: MS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
weather protection, sheet metal "hats" atop wood stringers & bent caps

Classifications:
Prime: 73

Database ID Number: 1107

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Patent #: 1104879

Author(s): J. C. Dildine

Date Issued: June 28, 1914

Location:
Town: Cameron
County: Clinton
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc. precast conc deck panels, re-steel formed as cylinder, then squashed flat

Classifications:
Prime: 264/277
2nd: 73
3rd: 29/527.1

Database ID Number: 1108

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Patent #: 1112542

Author(s): Harry A. Loser

Date Issued: October 6, 1914

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge, concrete, adjustable centering for

Classifications:
Prime: 249/209
2nd: 52/640
3rd: 249/181

Database ID Number: 1109

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Patent #: 1117428

Author(s): Ralph E. Newton

Date Issued: November 17, 1914

Location:
Town: Milwaukee
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br, conc, multispan, reuse centering but leave midspan prop to nix unbal force

Classifications:
Prime: 264/32
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 264/33

Database ID Number: 1110

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Patent #: 1118177

Author(s): Eddie Beard

Date Issued: November 24, 1914

Location:
Town: Not Listed
County: Fisher
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood, camelback with horiz. prestressing cable

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 1111

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Patent #: 1120104

Author(s): W. M. Thomas

Date Issued: December 8, 1914

Location:
Town: Los Angeles
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, concrete, open spandrel, precast & bolted together, +hinged base for arches

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 52/260

Database ID Number: 1112

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Patent #: 1120564

Author(s): P. A. Teters

Date Issued: December 8, 1914

Location:
Town: Rock Island
County: Colorado
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle bridge for RR, most timbers joined by U-bolts & J-bolts

Classifications:
Prime: 104/125

Database ID Number: 1113

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Patent #: 1121313

Author(s): Wilbur J. Watson

Date Issued: December 15, 1914

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
girder br. uses steel lattice-truss girders encased in conc & holding deck re-bars

Classifications:
Prime: 52/724.3
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/326
4th: 52/334

Database ID Number: 1114

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Patent #: 1122504

Author(s): George Huebner

Date Issued: December 29, 1914

Location:
Town: Lagrange
County: Fayette
State: TX

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, deck truss, very shallow, stringers and deck must form top chord

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 1115

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Patent #: 1128047

Author(s): A. H. Rhett

Date Issued: February 9, 1915

Location:
Town: Brooklyn
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, waterproofing for balast-deck RR girder bridge, membrane style

Classifications:
Prime: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1116

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Patent #: 1128809

Author(s): C. M. Markham

Date Issued: February 16, 1915

Location:
Town: San Diego
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, support for concrete forming

Classifications:
Prime: 249/210
2nd: 23
3rd: 248/357
4th: 24

Database ID Number: 1117

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Patent #: 1133230

Author(s): J. L. Funk

Date Issued: March 23, 1915

Location:
Town: Redondo
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
trestle br., wood, steel rods & pipes connect & align parts (piles, caps, stringers)

Classifications:
Prime: 74.5

Database ID Number: 1118

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Patent #: 1138697

Author(s): J. H. Smith

Date Issued: May 11, 1915

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, monorail, piers and beams for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/95
2nd: 104/124

Database ID Number: 1119

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Patent #: 1142124

Author(s): J. H. Smith

Date Issued: June 8, 1915

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, cars hang below tracks, piers and beams for

Classifications:
Prime: 104/95
2nd: 104/124

Database ID Number: 1120

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Patent #: 1142259

Author(s): Jean H. Knox

Date Issued: June 8, 1915

Location:
Town: Oakland
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., conc, forms = reusable, self-supporting, open-topped metal box girders

Classifications:
Prime: 249/1
2nd: 249/83
3rd: 249/163

Database ID Number: 1121

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Patent #: 1143866

Author(s): N. H. Sturgis

Date Issued: June 22, 1915

Location:
Town: Guthrie
County: Logan
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., trussed full height to cables, adjust-length hangers located by extra rod

Classifications:
Prime: 20

Database ID Number: 1122

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Patent #: 1146283

Author(s): A. C. Rush

Date Issued: July 13, 1915

Location:
Town: Los Angeles
County: Not Listed
State: CA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., 2 cables ea side, hangers are "levers", 8 pgs of suspect logic,36 claims

Classifications:
Prime: 20

Database ID Number: 1123

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Patent #: 1153099

Author(s): T. J. Moore and W. V. Moore

Date Issued: September 7, 1915

Location:
Town: Sandusky
County: Sanilac
State: MI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, curved corrug.metal betwn stringers to form it, invertd queen-post brace sys

Classifications:
Prime: 3

Database ID Number: 1124

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Patent #: 1162038

Author(s): Noah Cool

Date Issued: November 30, 1915

Location:
Town: Arcanum
County: Darke
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn to attach br. to abutments (against floods) yet allow some longit movem'nt

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 1125

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Patent #: 1163641

Author(s): R. A. Cummings

Date Issued: December 14, 1915

Location:
Town: Pittsburgh
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, conc, centering that's adjustable to fit any shape: parabolic, ellipse, etc

Classifications:
Prime: 2
2nd: 52/640

Database ID Number: 1126

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Patent #: 1174931

Author(s): W. C. Furry

Date Issued: March 7, 1916

Location:
Town: Tecumseh
County: Not Listed
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch bridge, concrete, adjustable centering for

Classifications:
Prime: 249/83
2nd: 52/640

Database ID Number: 1127

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Patent #: 1176994

Author(s): T. C. Spelling

Date Issued: March 28, 1916

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, steel, modular, surrounding roadwy, suitable to form both bridges & tunnels

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 3
3rd: 405/137

Database ID Number: 1128

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Patent #: 1181013

Author(s): C. E. Inglis

Date Issued: April 25, 1916

Location:
Town: Cambridge
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss "military" with one top chord & 2 bottom chords ~ triangular cross-sect

Classifications:
Prime: 4
2nd: 14
3rd: 52/652.1

Database ID Number: 1129

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Patent #: 1186108

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: June 6, 1916

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., concrete, lower arch surface curved both ways to "funnel" flood through

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1130

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Patent #: 1186109

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: June 6, 1916

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete arch br, multi-span, lower springline of longer span to balance pier mom

Classifications:
Prime: 52/88

Database ID Number: 1131

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Patent #: 1186110

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: June 6, 1916

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method for conc arch br, so cold joints won't hurt strength or appearance

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 52/174
3rd: 52/741.1

Database ID Number: 1132

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Patent #: 1198409

Author(s): Charles Berghoefer

Date Issued: September 19, 1916

Location:
Town: Milwaukee
County: Not Listed
State: WI

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
traveling bridges on docks, locking mechanism for

Classifications:
Prime: 188/44
2nd: 2.4
3rd: 212/324
4th: 246/171

Database ID Number: 1133

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Patent #: 1207740

Author(s): Johnathan R. Freeze

Date Issued: December 12, 1916

Location:
Town: Middletown
County: Butler
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, corrug. metal, another minor variation in connecting top & bot halves of culvert

Classifications:
Prime: 138/160

Database ID Number: 1134

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Patent #: 1215537

Author(s): James D. Hyatt

Date Issued: February 13, 1917

Location:
Town: Wadesboro
County: Anson
State: NC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
stone-filled, log-crib piers connected by simple beam spans

Classifications:
Prime: 77.1
2nd: 73
3rd: 405/273
4th: 75

Database ID Number: 1135

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Patent #: 1216830

Author(s): F. W. May

Date Issued: February 20, 1917

Location:
Town: Seattle
County: Not Listed
State: WA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
movable filling bridge, truss for dump cars to create a fill

Classifications:
Prime: 238/11

Database ID Number: 1136

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Patent #: 1219608

Author(s): W. J. Watson

Date Issued: March 20, 1917

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Cuyahoga
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
constr. method, centering for conc girder br, stay-in-place bar joists = re-steel

Classifications:
Prime: 249/24
2nd: 235/95A
3rd: 249/30

Database ID Number: 1137

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Patent #: 1223266

Author(s): Walter Dyer

Date Issued: April 17, 1917

Location:
Town: Portland
County: Not Listed
State: OR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
culvert, pipe arch from precast conc pieces that snap-together without centering

Classifications:
Prime: 52/86
2nd: 52/89
3rd: 52/592.1
4th: 52/249

Database ID Number: 1138

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Patent #: 1225485

Author(s): H. L. Pegram

Date Issued: May 8, 1917

Location:
Town: Mulvane
County: Mulvane
State: KS

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
concrete br., reinforcing looks like cable-stayed bars over abutmts, elims falsewk

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 249/1

Database ID Number: 1139

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Patent #: 1227565

Author(s): W. E. Ashley

Date Issued: May 29, 1917

Location:
Town: Greensboro
County: Guilford
State: NC

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
debris deflector, V-shape, across creek at road level, shunts flood drift to bank

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 1140

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Patent #: 1231365

Author(s): C. E. Inglis

Date Issued: June 26, 1917

Location:
Town: Cambridge
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn for quick assembly of military truss bridge

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 1141

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Patent #: 1235054

Author(s): A. W. Rammage

Date Issued: July 31, 1917

Location:
Town: London
County: Not Listed
State: Engl

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
deck, corrug steel, bolts together from top side

Classifications:
Prime: 52/450
2nd: 52/336

Database ID Number: 1142

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Patent #: 1235627

Author(s): Lavater Woodward

Date Issued: August 7, 1917

Location:
Town: Liberty
County: Dekalb
State: TN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., straight cables only, above & below, to reduce oscil, but claims only conn

Classifications:
Prime: 19

Database ID Number: 1143

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Patent #: 1237615

Author(s): Milo O. Burnett

Date Issued: August 21, 1917

Location:
Town: Marengo
County: Iowa
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge with abutmts, wall across bottom of opening to prevent streambed lowering

Classifications:
Prime: 52/169.2
2nd: 52/174

Database ID Number: 1144

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Patent #: 1238276

Author(s): Isaac Dickson

Date Issued: August 28, 1917

Location:
Town: Philadelphia
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev RR, columns & beams (deeper towards piers) for, wheels on top & bot of car

Classifications:
Prime: 104/124
2nd: 104/243

Database ID Number: 1145

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Patent #: 1248643

Author(s): W. C. Furry

Date Issued: December 4, 1917

Location:
Town: Shawnee
County: Not Listed
State: OK

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conc arch from precast slabs help by special centering, conc placed in seams

Classifications:
Prime: 52/89
2nd: 122/46
3rd: 249/209
4th: 405/132

Database ID Number: 1146

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Patent #: 1253809

Author(s): Henry Gelner

Date Issued: January 15, 1918

Location:
Town: Garner
County: Hancock
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
beam bridge supported on levers at each end ~ a "something for nothing" idea

Classifications:
Prime: 18

Database ID Number: 1147

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Patent #: 1256081

Author(s): C. A. P. Turner

Date Issued: February 12, 1918

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
cantilever w/ mid-ht bracing, but really his design for Quebec Bridge competition?

Classifications:
Prime: 7

Database ID Number: 1148

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Patent #: 1293006

Author(s): Christian Brynoldt

Date Issued: February 4, 1919

Location:
Town: Pittsburgh
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch br., conc, centering for

Classifications:
Prime: 264/32
2nd: 249/1
3rd: 249/184
4th: 264/33

Database ID Number: 1149

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Patent #: 1453084

Author(s): Joseph B. Strauss

Date Issued: April 24, 1923

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., Strauss' Golden Gate Br design~ Luckily, he let C.A. Ellis really design it

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 8

Database ID Number: 1150

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Patent #: 1548925

Author(s): Mike Zuzek

Date Issued: August 11, 1925

Location:
Town: Roundup
County: Not Listed
State: MT

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
debris deflector, timber, sloping, upstream from pier to turn logs & break ice

Classifications:
Prime: 76

Database ID Number: 1151

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Patent #: 1600233

Author(s): C. G. E. Larsson

Date Issued: September 21, 1926

Location:
Town: Plainfield
County: Not Listed
State: NJ

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebar, method of making

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 29/558

Database ID Number: 1152

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Patent #: 1634549

Author(s): D. B. Luten

Date Issued: July 5, 1927

Location:
Town: Indianapolis
County: Not Listed
State: IN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
expansion joint for sidewalls of concrete arch bridge, that prevents seepage

Classifications:
Prime: 52/87
2nd: 73.1
3rd: 52/334

Database ID Number: 1153

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Patent #: 1744588

Author(s): Joseph B. Strauss

Date Issued: January 21, 1930

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
eyebar, method of making

Classifications:
Prime: 13
2nd: 76/101.1
3rd: 228/190

Database ID Number: 1154

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Patent #: 1762786

Author(s): J. L. McKeown

Date Issued: June 10, 1930

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, laminated wood, iron tie, way to reduce thermal stress

Classifications:
Prime: 52/642
2nd: 10

Database ID Number: 1155

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Patent #: 1962820

Author(s): Arthur R. Knight

Date Issued: June 12, 1934

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Ways to repair and strengthen trusses

Classifications:
Prime: 29/897.1
2nd: 10
3rd: 29/434
4th: 29/402.07

Database ID Number: 1156

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Patent #: 2042973

Author(s): C. A. P. Turner

Date Issued: June 2, 1936

Location:
Town: Minneapolis
County: Not Listed
State: MN

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bridge & truss designs to minimize painting, continuous stringers, arches, etc.

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1157

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Patent #: 2057168

Author(s): J. B. Strauss

Date Issued: October 13, 1936

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br, towerless, cables below road, support struts in compression

Classifications:
Prime: 19
2nd: 6
3rd: D25/1

Database ID Number: 1158

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Reissue Patent #: 34 For Original Patent #: 1398

Author(s): Stephen H. Long

Date Issued: July 20, 1841

Location:
Town: Marietta
County: "US engrs"
State: GA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Long Truss +underbraces, clip+wedge (gib+key) conn, orig #1398 of 1839

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 1159

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Reissue Patent #: 175 For Original Patent #: 1711

Author(s): William Howe

Date Issued: September 3, 1850

Location:
Town: Warren
County: Worchester
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, wood Howe-ish truss with tension-rod verticals. orig #1711 of 1840

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 1160

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Reissue Patent #: 2701 For Original Patent #: 43202

Author(s): David Hammond and W. R. Reeves

Date Issued: July 30, 1867

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring or tied arch, arch = 2 iron channels, orig = #43,202 of 1864

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 1161

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Reissue Patent #: 6445 For Original Patent #: 142381

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: May 25, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, stiffened by using two lenticular trusses within. orig #142,381 of 1843

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 1162

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Reissue Patent #: 739 For Original Patent #: 16446

Author(s): David McCallum

Date Issued: June 21, 1859

Location:
Town: Owego
County: Tioga
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, McCallum arch-truss, way to prestress the counters. orig #16,446 of 1857

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 1163

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Reissue Patent #: 1884 For Original Patent #: 16579

Author(s): Reuben Comins

Date Issued: February 28, 1865

Location:
Town: Troy
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, iron castings with fins for panel pts of wood Howe truss orig 16579 of 1857

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 1164

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Reissue Patent #: 18973 For Original Patent #: 1842136

Author(s): E.M. Wichert

Date Issued: October 24, 1933

Location:
Town: Wilkinsburg
County: Not Listed
State: PA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, continuous truss that is flexible & statically determinate, orig 1842136 of '32

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 1165

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Reissue Patent #: 2070 For Original Patent #: 20987

Author(s): A. D. Briggs

Date Issued: September 12, 1865

Location:
Town: Springfield
County: Not Listed
State: MA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, panel pts in wood Warren truss, extr blocks spread load orig 20,987 of 1858

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 1166

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Reissue Patent #: 2586 For Original Patent #: 56043

Author(s): David Hammond

Date Issued: April 30, 1867

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, arch = pair of I-beams with cover plate, orig #56,043 of 1866

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1167

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Reissue Patent #: 2707 For Original Patent #: 33384

Author(s): Zenas King and P. M. Frees

Date Issued: July 30, 1867

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron crescent arch deeper at midspan, no diags, orig 2,380 10-1-1861

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1168

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Reissue Patent #: 3073 For Original Patent #: 71955

Author(s): Charles Bender

Date Issued: August 11, 1868

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
susp br., self anchoring, reissue of 71,955 of 1867

Classifications:
Prime: 20
2nd: 73.5

Database ID Number: 1169

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Reissue Patent #: 3292 For Original Patent #: 43202

Author(s): David Hammond and W. R. Reeves

Date Issued: February 9, 1869

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, tied-arch, no diags, built-up arch rib design orig 43,202 of 1864

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1170

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Reissue Patent #: 3433 For Original Patent #: 56043

Author(s): David Hammond

Date Issued: May 11, 1869

Location:
Town: Canton
County: Stark
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, orig 56,043 of 1866

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1171

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Reissue Patent #: 3758 For Original Patent #: 96278

Author(s): F. H. Smith

Date Issued: December 7, 1869

Location:
Town: Baltimore
County: Not Listed
State: MD

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, Smith-Latrobe Co, length-adjustmt for verts, lat. brac conn, orig 96,278 of '69

Classifications:
Prime: 5

Database ID Number: 1172

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Reissue Patent #: 4093 For Original Patent #: 63714

Author(s): Albert Fink

Date Issued: August 9, 1870

Location:
Town: Louisville
County: Not Listed
State: KY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination Warren RR truss and conn for it orig 63,714 of 1867

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 1173

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Reissue Patent #: 4172 For Original Patent #: 25210

Author(s): Richard Montgomery

Date Issued: November 1, 1870

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
arch, reinforced corrugated iron beams, orig 25,210 of 1859

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1174

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Reissue Patent #: 4398 For Original Patent #: 70245

Author(s): David H. Morrison

Date Issued: May 23, 1871

Location:
Town: Dayton
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, orig 70,245 of 1867

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1175

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Reissue Patent #: 6150 For Original Patent #: 106056

Author(s): J. M. Hannahs

Date Issued: November 24, 1874

Location:
Town: Chicago
County: Not Listed
State: IL

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
elev. RR, piers & cable-stayed girders for, orig #106,056

Classifications:
Prime: 104/123
2nd: 256/23

Database ID Number: 1176

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Reissue Patent #: 6026 For Original Patent #: 58266

Author(s): Zenas King

Date Issued: August 25, 1874

Location:
Town: Cleveland
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
bowstring, iron, heavy, orig 58,266 of 1866

Classifications:
Prime: 13

Database ID Number: 1177

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Reissue Patent #: 6444 For Original Patent #: 142381

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: May 25, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
reissue of 142,381 but altered ~ ea half arch =lenticular truss, 20 ksi allow noted

Classifications:
Prime: 25

Database ID Number: 1178

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Reissue Patent #: 6446 For Original Patent #: 142381

Author(s): James B. Eads

Date Issued: May 25, 1875

Location:
Town: St. Louis
County: Not Listed
State: MO

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
fnd. for arch, A-frame-like pier for, reissue of 142,381 of 1873

Classifications:
Prime: 26

Database ID Number: 1179

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Reissue Patent #: 7116 For Original Patent #: 147775

Author(s): David Klein

Date Issued: May 16, 1876

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pontoon br., reissued 147,775 modified: text no longer requires 2-float sections

Classifications:
Prime: 30

Database ID Number: 1180

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Reissue Patent #: 7282 For Original Patent #: 146400

Author(s): John A. Patterson and Andrew J. Sprague

Date Issued: August 29, 1876

Location:
Town: Toledo
County: Not Listed
State: OH

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
conn, etc. for combin Howe truss w/ wght iron lower chord orig 146,400 of 1874

Classifications:
Prime: 14

Database ID Number: 1181

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Reissue Patent #: 8860 For Original Patent #: 66197

Author(s): F. A. Williams

Date Issued: August 19, 1879

Location:
Town: Cloverdale
County: Delaware
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
pier for elevated RR

Classifications:
Prime: 52/292
2nd: 404/1

Database ID Number: 1182

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Reissue Patent #: 8280 For Original Patent #: 173863

Author(s): Joseph M. McDonald

Date Issued: June 11, 1878

Location:
Town: Tomlinson
County: Scott
State: AR

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, king post on sides, arches under road, iron ties orig #173,863 of 1876

Classifications:
Prime: 2

Database ID Number: 1183

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Reissue Patent #: 8959 For Original Patent #: 146397

Author(s): Richard Long

Date Issued: November 4, 1879

Location:
Town: Iowa City
County: Johnson
State: IA

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
tied arch, laminated wood, orig = #146,397 of 1874, much like #43,202

Classifications:
Prime: 9

Database ID Number: 1184

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Reissue Patent #: 9575 For Original Patent #: 63714

Author(s): Albert Fink

Date Issued: February 15, 1881

Location:
Town: New York
County: Not Listed
State: NY

Comments By Jim Barker, P.E.
truss, combination, Warren truss & conn, ~ clever orig #63,714 of 1867

Classifications:
Prime: 4

Database ID Number: 1185

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