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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4525874, member: 56"]The oldest patent date is 1891, and the most recent 1900, so yours wont be not much more than 10 years after the original patent. Maybe the thing to do is to find out when the metal scissor system was introduced. Looks like yours runs on ribbons. I imagine they had a tendency to break, which might be why a new system was developed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=17270]@Roaring20s[/USER] : I never imagined these as floor-to-ceiling units, or in a stepped configuration.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4525874, member: 56"]The oldest patent date is 1891, and the most recent 1900, so yours wont be not much more than 10 years after the original patent. Maybe the thing to do is to find out when the metal scissor system was introduced. Looks like yours runs on ribbons. I imagine they had a tendency to break, which might be why a new system was developed. [USER=17270]@Roaring20s[/USER] : I never imagined these as floor-to-ceiling units, or in a stepped configuration.[/QUOTE]
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