The pad
is lignum vitae;
the wrist handle is rosewood:
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Millers Falls Mfg.
Co.
Patent July 3, 1868:
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Model No. 13:
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B&D-171
Price: $80.00
plus shipping
Everything
about this brace is first-rate, excepting all the little dings on the
chuck and that one of the chuck jaws has to be nudged a little before
it will grip an auger bit. And that the July 3, 1868 patent date
stamped on the frame is not a date on which any patent was awarded.
There is good news: The wrist handle follows the teachings of William
McCoy's U.S.
Patent No. 118,039 (below, left) which was granted nearly three
years after
Albert Goodell's U.S.
Patent No. 79,825 (below, right) for the chuck. As McCoy's patent
isn't
referenced on this brace, not even as a pending patent, the present
brace may have been made during the one year grace period before Mr.
McCoy's invention had to be disclosed to the U.S. Patent Office in
order to avoid loss of protection.
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