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Antique tool - test indicator - pat#2,228,497 - lufkin
Antique Tool - Test INDICATOR - Patent #2,228,497 January 1941 - Lufkin
Tools, my how tools have evolved since the cave man. Well, if you are a tool collector then what we have here might be of interest to you as it is truly a machinist collectible precision tool. This is an Antique Tool - it is called an INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments - #199A - US Patent #2,228,497 January 1941.
I will describe this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments as much and/or best as I can:
* This Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments is called a LUFKIN Test INDICATOR - or - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments. This INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments has three pieces and, though old/used, comes in its original box.
* This Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments has a US Patent number of: 2,228,497
* Applied for: January 03, 1929
* Granted: January 14,1941
* The three pieces to this Antique Tool - INDICATOR measure approximately:
* The Patentee for this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments is: Eugene J. Witchger - Saginaw, MI
* USPTO Classifications for this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments: 116/332, 116/DIG.6, 33/556
* The Tool Categories for this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments are: (does not list any)
* The Assignees for this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments is: Lufkin Rule Company - Saginaw, MI
* The numbers on the front of this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments go: +4-2-0-2-4-
* The face, or top side, of this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments reads: LUFKIN.
* The under side of this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments reads: No. 199A - Made in USA - Pat Nos. 2,151,255 - 2,228,497
* This Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments even, as said, comes in its original box which reads: LUFKIN Test INDICATOR - No. 199A
I do not know where all this Antique Tool - INDICATING Device for Measuring Instruments has been, or things it has seen and/or done, but from 1941 to now......
I am no expert, I do not even know how this works, but it appears to be in excellent, pretty clean, used condition and, in the right hands, would work and/or know what it is suppose to be doing.
