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Hampton Pratt Rhodes received US Patent No. 1,627,620 on May 10, 1927, filed July 18, 1925.
The patent's description opens (from the scanned text):
My invention relates to packing for use in stufiing boxes in maintaining a \tight closure about moving shafts and is particularliy adapted for use where heat is encountere It is an object of the invention to provide which the preferred embodiment of my invention is shown, Fig. 1 is a transverse section through a. stri constructed in accordance with my -invention.
- Author
- Hampton Pratt Rhodes
- Published by
- US Patent Office
- Series
- US Patent No. 1,627,620
- Date
- May 10, 1927
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 22340 · asbestosclaims.law/library/22340
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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Where it was listed
- Asbestos, August 1927, in its patents department (the year's issues)
Cite this document
Hampton Pratt Rhodes. “Flexible Metallic Packing (US Patent 1,627,620, 1927).” May 10, 1927. US Patent No. 1,627,620. US Patent Office. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 22340. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/22340.
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