today in history July 9, 1895 John Lee Love of Fall River, - TopicsExpress



          

today in history July 9, 1895 John Lee Love of Fall River, Massachusetts received patent number 542,419 for an improved plaster’s hawk. A plaster’s hawk is a flat square piece of board made of wood or metal, upon which plaster or mortar is placed and then spread by plasterers or masons. Love designed one that was more portable with a detachable handle and foldable board made of aluminum. Mr. Love subsequently received patent number 594,114 November 23, 1897 for a pencil sharpener that used a crank to shave off thin slices of wood from the pencil until a point was formed. The shavings from the wood would stay inside the sharpener much like the sharpeners we use today. Not much else is known of Love’s life except that he died December 26, 1931.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:04:06 +0000

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