Linus Yale, Sr.

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Linus Yale
Linus Yale
Born	27 April 1797 Middletown, Connecticut,
Died	8 August 1858 Newport, New York
Nationality	American

Linus Yale, Sr. (27 April 1797 — 8 August 1858) was an American inventor and manufacturer of locks.

He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and later moved with his parents to Salisbury, New York. Yale opened a lock shop in the early 1840s in Newport, New York, specializing in bank locks. In 1850 his son, Linus Yale, Jr. joined him at the lock shop and began working on improving his father’s pin tumbler lock.

Patents by Linus Yale, Sr. from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:

20 Jan 1830 Pat. #x5,788 mill stone dresser - Salisbury, NY
17 Sep 1833 Pat. #x7,767 horse power - Otsego, NY (with P.C. Curtis)
17 Sep 1833 Pat. #x7,770 threshing machine - Utica, NY (with P.C. Curtis)
11 Sept. 1835 Pat. #9,094x sawmill head block - Utica, NY
17 May 1838 Pat. #739 grain threshing machine - Little Falls, NY (with S.W. Stimson)
29 July 1841 Pat. #2,196 sawmill dog - Newport, NY
20 Oct 1843 Pat. #3,312 combination lock - Springfield, MA (with C. Wilson)
13 June 1844 Pat. #3,630 pin tumbler safe lock - Springfield, MA
13 Feb. 1849 Pat. #6,111 safe - Newport, NY
18 Oct. 1853 Pat. #10,144 a bank lock - Newport, NY
28 Feb. 1854 Pat. #10,584 a bank lock - Newport, NY
22 May 1855 Pat. #12,932 a bank lock - Newport, NY
5 Aug 1856 Pat. #15,500 vault and safe door bolt - Newport, NY
8 Sept. 1857 Pat. #18,169 padlock - Newport, NY

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[edit] Sources

Yale, Elihu. The Yale Family. New Haven, Connecticut: Storer & Storer, 1850. LCCN: 09-18747
Yale, Rodney Horace. Yale Genealogy and History of Wales. Beatrice, Nebraska: Milburn and Scott Co., 1908. LCCN: 09-9945
Gravestone in Newport, New York