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Some patents relating to Valves produced by the company.
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Ashton Valve pop safety valve 1871
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More patents.
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Patents #3
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Patents #4
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Patents #5
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A link to early safety valve patents. Google patents is a great reference.
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&e ... 20yzLoJFww
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&e ... 20yzLoJFww
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Articles about safety valves.
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Part 2
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part 3
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Part 4
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Report on safety-valve tests, made at the U. S. Navy yard, 1877
by United States. Steamboat-inspection service. [from old catalog]
https://archive.org/details/reportonsaf ... ety+valves
by United States. Steamboat-inspection service. [from old catalog]
https://archive.org/details/reportonsaf ... ety+valves
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Here's my circa 1874 Ashton safety valve, courtesy of an ex Crosby employee who was kind enough to give it to me at a Yankee Steam-up a few years ago.
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Pop valve magazine, published in France by the US Army. This copy from 1919.
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Crane, the well known Valve manufacturer, also put out a monthly magazine, VALVE WORLD.
Besides articles about the industry, the publication also featured some inspirational articles aimed at the workers in these large plants.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012369148
A complete issue.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Th ... frontcover
valve world- Crane Company
Among the many publications which come regularly to the writer’s desk is a monthly magazine called “The Valve World,” published as the house organ of a great manufacturing company having offices, branches, warehouses and factories all over the world, including every Canadian Province, except Prince Edward Island. One of the regular departments in this magazine is headed “From an Old Fogy’s Inglenook,” and consists of Informal, personal chats of a most Interesting, informative, and inspirational character. They are thought-provoking, while at the same time bringing comfort to the reader. They are a .spur to one’s ambition, a ray of sunshine on a gloomy day, an incentive to be up and doing, and to endeavor to find and appreciate true values In life.
Besides articles about the industry, the publication also featured some inspirational articles aimed at the workers in these large plants.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012369148
A complete issue.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Th ... frontcover
valve world- Crane Company
Among the many publications which come regularly to the writer’s desk is a monthly magazine called “The Valve World,” published as the house organ of a great manufacturing company having offices, branches, warehouses and factories all over the world, including every Canadian Province, except Prince Edward Island. One of the regular departments in this magazine is headed “From an Old Fogy’s Inglenook,” and consists of Informal, personal chats of a most Interesting, informative, and inspirational character. They are thought-provoking, while at the same time bringing comfort to the reader. They are a .spur to one’s ambition, a ray of sunshine on a gloomy day, an incentive to be up and doing, and to endeavor to find and appreciate true values In life.
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A 1910 safety valve catalog by the Consolidated Saefty Valve Co.
Consolidated pop safety valves : 1910
by Consolidated Safety Valve Co. New York
https://archive.org/details/consolidate ... 5/mode/2up
Consolidated pop safety valves : 1910
by Consolidated Safety Valve Co. New York
https://archive.org/details/consolidate ... 5/mode/2up