Ohio scale plate

[kyskinner]

I grabbed the ole T2 today and went on the hunt for about 2 hours,went to an old house site that i know of and about an hour into the hunt i got a 92 signal, thought sure that i had found me a quarter. This thing here popped outta the ground at about 4 inches. It has writing on it that says



The National Computing Scale Co. Cleveland O. U.S.A.

75430
Patented
Jan.12.1817 Jan.12.1897
March 16 1897
OTHER PATENTS PENDING

What has me confused is all the different dates on the thing,if anyone would have any info about my find please feel free to let me know ,might not be much but i thought that it was kinda cool LOL!!!
happy hunting everyone !!!

 

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[sutphin]

DANG MR. SKINNER WHAT A COOL DISC YOU HAVE , NICE FIND.

 

[kyskinner]

thank you sutphin

 

[cjon455]

that's pretty neat, I like finding stuff like that with patent dates on them, very cool!

 

[kyskinner]

Thank you cjon455,just wish that i could find some more info on it,been looking but cant find out much about it.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome find, in perfect condition! Congratulations.

 

[kyskinner]

thanks Professor of Engineering

 

[Loco-Digger]

Nice find. I'd love to dig one of those.

 

[Nitric]

The different dates are patent dates, The last or most recent date is going to be closer obviously. But even then, some of those could be years away from when it was made. I've heard seven years, but found that isn't always true.

cool find!!! Some of these scales were huge complicated looking things! Look up computing scales Dayton OHIO. I imagine there were many more companies in ohio in that time. Probably in every city.

 

[kyskinner]

thanks Loco-Digger and thanks Nitric for date info

 

[NOLA_Ken]

The patents are likely for different parts of the scale, different features basically. You'd have a patent for the basic machinery, the computing device, etc....

 

[kyskinner]

thank you NOLA Ken