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PART TWO - The Patent

This patent was Applied for in late 1913, when Scott was single and just twenty-years-old.
The patent was Accepted in late 1914. Here is the Public Notice of Acceptance.



This was an improvement on existing machines. Scott's machine's main feature was that it
had a 'compensatory' spring loaded mechanism by which the cutting wheel would yield to any
solid foreign matter that might be in the uncut material, thus preventing machine jamming.

Here is the accompanying illustration to the patent.
I would like to acknowledge the research skills of member Sir Chook in finding the patent
document at AUSPAT. I have included the patent document below for downloading.
It is well worth the read.