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Keeping with the theme of last Thursday’s launch of the Safe Deposit page of the Library, here are some of the earliest safe deposit box and lock patents. You can see a lot of the progression of both safe deposit boxes and locks by clicking through these patents chronologically. These patents were pulled directly from Lock & Lockmakers of America by Thomas F. Hennessy. If you don’t already have a copy of Lock & Lockmakers of America, grab a copy; it will be one of the most referenced books in your library.
- 296,153 – John Farrel – April 1, 1884
- 481,736 – James Roche (Eagle Lock Co.) – August 30, 1892
- 524,148 – James Roche (Eagle Lock Co.) – August 7, 1894
- 545,161 – Henry Horne – August 27, 1895
- 666,697 – James Roche (Eagle Lock Co.) – January 29, 1900
- 671,326 – Frank Soley (Miller Lock Co.) – April 2, 1901
- 853,485 – Harry P. Townsend (Corbin Cabinet Lock Co.) – May 14, 1907
- 860,940 – James Roche (Eagle Lock Co.) – July 23, 1907
- 868,306 – Harry P. Townsend (Corbin Cabinet Lock Co.) – October 15, 1907
- 869,533 – Warren H. Taylor (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.) – October 29, 1907
- 953,641 – Edwin J. Prindle (Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co.) – March 29, 1910
- 960,421 – Augustus W. Sibley (Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co.) – June 7, 1910
- 972,241 – Edwin J. Prindle (Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co.) – October 11, 1910
- 974,693 – James J. Murphy (Eagle Lock Co.) – November 1, 1910
- 988,663 – Walter Rees – April 4, 1911
- 993,908 – Warren H. Taylor (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.) – May 30, 1911
- 996,726 – James J. Murphy (Eagle Lock Co.) – July 4, 1911
- 1,004,904 – Walter Rees – October 3, 1911
- 1,148,282 – Edgar Morton Benham (American Bankers Dust Proof Time Lock Co.) – July 27, 1915