Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-19
SMITHS PATENT
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4 Rare Chance to Secure TTaluable Agencp

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COUNTY OR STATE RIGHTS,
As secured under Letters Patent rec<nty issue for
"smyths Acting, Bent Lever; Platform Scales
can now be secured on application to
the Subscriber.
THls Invention claims superiority every other in
the following respects nYariable scientific prin-
cipe involved, and upon which it acts in its undertaking
accuracy in ghness and strength its wonderful ca
pacty convenience of FORM and applicability to every
pose for which scales of any kind required in its
feet simplicity, and the fact that any ordinary mechanic can
them the absence of anv complication IL
able 10 variation to get of ORDER and finally in the
important fact that this scale afforded at about
cost any other Platform scale of like canacitv
and accuracy in And that possessing an eminent
degree all these merits this is conceded TO be
useful and valuable ever broupht before the
public And coming, it does within the reach of ALL it
cannot but find unprecedented and undivided
among farmers, housekeepers mechanics merchants
etc. everywhere to the exclusion of every other weighing
apparatus,
State and County Rights under this Patent were FIRST Of
Tered Tor sale on the 10th day March last Albany ~
and IN the short space twenty days Eastern Middle
and Atlantic States taken by the nuen
tlal business men in that City, and prices that gave
Inventor handsome competence. So great the demand
for these Scales, that factory for their manufacture is al
ready In successful operation and viii be rapidly enlarged
to an extent equal to the immense demand already created
for their sale Arrangements being manufac-
ture them IN TINS CITY equal any demand that may be
Rights will be placed within reach of every enterprs-
ing salesman or business and upon terms as will
insure success and render their possession valuable
question: and constant and increasing source
! fit during the continuance of the Patent.
1t believed that seldom never were more tepting
inducements offered than this Invention affords for the
small investment required and to of ability pre-
sened opportunity for the realization easy rapid and
honorable wealth, seldom afforded.
ID. NJ SMYTH, Patentee,
! Office Of "Smytks Patent Platform Scnles,''
80 South CLARK Street CHICAGO
| CHICAGO, 1856. 4w52 Up. O. Boz S52 }
From, the 44tLds Dc 1rQus.
SMYTHs PATENT PLATFORM have examined this
new invention Nothing can be simpler completely
developed than the principle upon which The plat
form which sustans the weight lifts pendulum suspended
and loaded at the end thro' circles the ndi
Gator points out upon the graduated circumference
act weight In other platform scales the measure of
dupos has to be ascerained by moving loose weight
BEAM as on steelyard till it hits the precise point Smyh's
invention rs seli-workng and indicates once and
To the nlnest fraction the figure BY attaching the weight
on the end of the pendulum the scale becomes multiplied by
hveS or tens by releasing the weight gives instead
better than seey Yards and finding the way to all welreg
ated KITCHENS where the receipt book, with its prescrp-
tons OF weight and proportions, is used