What was the Jesse Delano and Sons Safe Company?

Answer 1

JESSE DELANO & SONS1825-1859, NY, NY

7 March, 1826 - patd' "Fireproof Wrought Iron Chest"

13 August, 1834 - patent reissued for "Fire Proof Safe"

Apparent "Patent Extension" lawsuit "Delano vs Scott" (xx, 47) Journal of the Franklin Institute index of volumes I to CXX, 1826-1855.

By 1825, Jesse Delano was manufacturing iron chests in New York City. In 1826, he patented an improvement in fire proof safes "which consisted in coating the wooden foundation with a composition of equal parts, clay and lime, plumbago and mica or saturating the wood in a solution of potash lye and alum, to render it incombustible. These were generally used in this country (the US). (One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States, 1870, pp 396-97). " The first safes manufactured in this country were lined with wood; the old-fashioned "knob-chests", as they were called , were simply wooden boxes covered first with thin sheet-iron, then banded and strapped, and the whole nailed fast with larger nails, having prominent knobs or cast-iron heads (Hob Nails). The original method of preparing wood as a lining for safes was to saturate or soak it with salt water, and as wood is absorbent, it retained this saturation for some time." (Fighting Fire for Twenty six Years, Comprising a History of Herring's Patent Champion Safes, 1867, p. 9) Delano's patent, which bears the number x-8356, was reissued in 1834. A copy of the patent diagram is provided below. Delano and his sons manufactured safes in New York City until 1859.