15509 Drummond Road, Orient, Ohio 43146.
In 1975 I started to get together all the information I could on
the Avery undermounted steam traction engine. I ran information
want ads in IMA and E&E magazines asking that all owners of
AVERY undermounted engines send me the size, serial number and year
engine was built.
From this ad and personal letters I got a fair reply. I thank
those people for taking the time to write to me. A report will be
made on this count. Mr. Lorin E. Bixler of New Concord, Ohio wrote
to tell me that I should write to the U.S. Patent Office,
Washington, D.C., and ask them what they would have on the Avery
catalogs on the undermounted engine I noticed the patent numbers
842,786 and 842,840. I wrote the Patent office asking them what
these numbers stood for. In time I got two most interesting
envelopes of mail from them.
This is what the Patent Office sent me. Patent #842,786 was
issued to Martin J. Hogan of Canton, Ohio. First application filed
on September 19, 1903. Renewed on June 2, 1906, serial number
319,922. Patented January 29, 1907. This is the patent on the
Aultman & Co. Double Star undermounted traction engine. Mr.
Hogan was superintendent of the Aultman Co.
This is what the Patent Office sent me on the Avery Co. William
N. Springer of Peoria, Illinois, assignor to the Avery
Manufacturing Co. of Peoria, Illinois a corporation of Illinois.
Patent #842,840. Original application filed December 21,1904,
serial #237,859. Divided and this application filed March 8, 1906,
serial #304,354.
Patent number 842,840 was issued to Avery on January 29,1907. I
have no word from the Patent Office on number 842,786 other than it
was issued to the Aultman Co. in a patent on January 29, 1907. This
patent #842,786 is the connection between the Avery and Aultman
Co.