The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-25
SMITHS PATENT PLATFORM
SCALES.
Rare Chance to secure a Valuable Agency
County or State Right as secured under
letters patent (recently issued6 for
"Smyth's Self-Acting, Bent
Lever, platform Scales"
can now be secured
on application to

$500" ASNNSsS - ~ W.
"Smyth's Self-Actng, Bent
Lever, platform Scales"
can now be secured
on application to
the subscribers.
THIS invention claims superiority over every 9th.
1 eli, in the following respects: In the invaluable
scientific principle Involved, and upon which il acts,
in its pnd is i. nS0s sss1,ss sy,, n It's lish.ns.: and
ssals. s sf .n ngR aiad ars yr e Rai i. perfect lsa sa si@.
Manufacture them; in the absence or any complica.
ton net liable TO variation or 10 get cut OF order;
and finally, in the importan nj fact that this Scale can
be afforded at about one third the cost Of any other
Platform Scale Of like capacity and accuracy, in use.
And that possessing, In an eminent degree, all these
merits, this invention Is conceded TO g one Of he
public. And coming, as itdees, within the reach Of
ali, 1t cannot but ind an unprecedented sale and un-
chanics, merchants, etc. everywhere, to the exclusion
Of every other weighing apparatus.
State and County Rights, under this Patent we're
Albany Y, and, in the short space Of 90 days, all
the Eastern Middle and Atlantic States were taken
by some ofthe most influential business men in that
city, and ut prices that gave the Inventor . handsome
competence. So great Is the demand for these
Scales, that q factory fortheir manufacture 10 already
in successful operation, ana wiil DO rapidly enlarged
created in the West.
Rights will be placed within the reach of every en-
IL PDPt0fuR u2icuiuuu VI Ill anu upon uuCQ
terms as WI 4 insure success, and render their poe
session a valuable acquisition, and u constant, sure
and increasipg source of profit during the contipu-
II is believed that seldom or never, we're more
tempting inducements offered than this Invention
ansrds, foIthe small investments required, and 10 q
man of ability, is presented an opportunity for the
realization OF easy, rapid and honorable wealth sci
dom afforded. For further information apply 10
DUM0NT Il oODRICH
att. II. Dumont's, Perry st
Davenport, lows.
From tAe Atlas aud .Srgss.
sNyrH's PATENT PLATFORM ScALE.-We have ex-
o. more completely developed than The principle
usoU which It acts. The platform which sustainsthe
weigh. liis:a psSdai.m, suspended s.s1s: s0s ia *, l inSiss,s a.
points out, upon the graduated circumference, the
exact weight. In other platform scales the measure
loose weight on a beam, as on . siselyard, ill il hits
he precise point. Smyth's invention 10 = self-w ork-
ing ons, and indicates ~ once, and to the minutes,
frsctiop, the hgure. BY attaching the weight on the
| end Of the pendulum, the scale becomes multiplied
by nyes or tens; BY releasing the weight It gives
ouneesins.ead Oh pounds; fSr household purposes,
nndins the way to all weil-regalstsd kitchens where
the receipt book, with its prescriptions of weight and
From the Chicago Democratic Press.
SMITHS PATENT PLArroRn ScALEs.-We have or
amined this new and valuable invention, and fully
nom the united pressof Albany, as will be seen By
reference to an advertisement In another eolumn.-
We believe 1t 10 just what is wanted BY the people Of
the West, ~ the agricultural community, in particu.
lar. il Is invaluable. Weprsdictfor the luck inyen
tor an unlimited sale, as the low price atwhich tho,
are Afforded will place them within the reach Of sv
| cry farmer In the State. Those Of our citizens whs
are prejudiced against new Inventions, from the ma
ny worthless pxtentsthat are hawked about the coun
Try, by calling aiths office Of Smylh's Patent Plat
form Scales, No. 80 South Clark Street, and exam
inc These Scales, will DO sstisned that the economy
utility and aeeurs cy, combined in them, enutles hi
invention 10 the loren oct ranks OF the many wonder
ful disco veries that have stamped this Eras ~ the ~
ofinvenllon. II will open o held OF ente rprise 1
thousands of our snterprising men, as lucrative Is
isbroxd and unlimited. july7 dim Wit