I took a stuffed dog to the Antiques Roadshow and was told, "This is extremely rare. Do you know what it would fetch in good condition?"
"Dunno," I said. "A stick?"
Edison patentIn 1893, a patent for a "Roller for Crushing Ore or Other Material" was issued to Thomas A. Edison (U.S. No. 498,385). Edison had in mind crushing iron ore. "It is usual in ore crushing machines employing rollers to mount them in pairs on suitable supporting frames and to provide means for driving each pair, and for feeding material to be crushed separately to each pair of rollers and to provide separate means for pressing the rollers of each pair together. In the machine to be described I employ three or more rollers supported side by side in a frame and moveable towards or away from each other, instead of using them in pairs, and a single weight and lever serves to press all of said rollers together."Image: drawing of the side elevation of the apparatus. |
