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...Beech-Nut Packing...
...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...McCann had been with Standard Oil, and the Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey, Ohio, California, Indiana, Nebraska and Pennsylvania, together with Stance, Inc. are still among his biggest clients, along with California Packing Corp., Devoe & Raynolds (in part), Canadian National Railways, Zonite, Borden (in part), Beech-Nut, Encyclopedia Britannica and many another...
...wrecks motivated him, but the fact that many shells became loose in their whirling trip through the air, became duds instead of explosive missiles. No mechanic, never having touched a monkey-wrench, he set about the problem in a purely theoretical way, writing upon a piece of paper "bolt, nut, parts joined...
...principle of the Dardelet Threadlock is that a nut remains fixed when its friction on a bolt is greater than its friction against the face of the part that is being clamped. By mathematically designed taperings on the thread, the Dardelet nut and bolt become wedged into one mass, cannot possibly shake loose, yet are uninjured when separated. Separation is accomplished easily with a wrench...