Forest Service Lock by Yale

[BBE]

Here is an enlarged image of the Yale No. 8 key blank taken from the Supplee Hardware Company catalog page 86 ca. 1902 that has been cited here previously, see thumbnail attached. I was interested in the patent dates incised on the key blade: Nov. 2, 1892, July 28, 1892 and Aug. 11, 1891, with some diligence I did find two:

1. July 28, 1892, U.S. Patent 456,917
2. Aug. 11, 1892, U.S. Patent 457,753

Both the above were issued to Warren H. Taylor and assigned to Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. I was unable to find anything whatever on the Nov. 2, 1892 patent. Anybody out there that can find this one?

Pete Schifferli

I haven't time to look now, but I think you misread the date on that key, it is Nov. 2, 1891.
BBE.

[BBE]

I haven't time to look now, but I think you misread the date on that key, it is Nov. 2, 1891.
BBE.

OK, did a quick look and neither 11/2/1891 nor 11/2/1892 was a Tuesday, so both are invalid.
BBE.

[Pschiffe]

OK, did a quick look and neither 11/2/1891 nor 11/2/1892 was a Tuesday, so both are invalid.
BBE.

Billy, perhaps that century old error should have been Nov. 2, 1880? I found that date on other goods patented by Yale & Towne in that era. See US Patent 234,089 issued to Warren H. Taylor "Apparatus for slotting metal".

Every major lock company had at least one outstanding inventor of locks and builders' hardware. In the case of Yale & Towne, the man was Warren H. Taylor. Taylor entered the employ of the Yale Lock Shop of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts in 1869. At the time of his death in 1914, he was superintendent of the bank lock department. He was also one of the largest stockholders of the company.*

*from Locks and Lockmakers of America, rev. 3rd edition, (c) 1976, 1997 by the late Thomas F. Hennessy, pg. 70

Pete Schifferli

[BBE]

Billy, perhaps that century old error should have been Nov. 2, 1880? I found that date on other goods patented by Yale & Towne in that era. See US Patent 234,089 issued to Warren H. Taylor "Apparatus for slotting metal".

Every major lock company had at least one outstanding inventor of locks and builders' hardware. In the case of Yale & Towne, the man was Warren H. Taylor. Taylor entered the employ of the Yale Lock Shop of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts in 1869. At the time of his death in 1914, he was superintendent of the bank lock department. He was also one of the largest stockholders of the company.*

*from Locks and Lockmakers of America, rev. 3rd edition, (c) 1976, 1997 by the late Thomas F. Hennessy, pg. 70

Pete Schifferli

Nice detective work Pete. I think you may be right.
BBE.

[Pschiffe]

I haven't time to look now, but I think you misread the date on that key, it is Nov. 2, 1891.
BBE.

Right you are, that was a typo; it is indeed Nov. 2, 1891, sorry for the confusion!

Pete