woody 73
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Part three, second part of the follow up of the Upson Bros., Inc., post; The following Ball driver had a story to tell and it did indeed give up all its secrets.
Deep within the amber handle were three sets of information, two sets of patent numbers and one special trade name used by the Upson Brothers. Now even with my bifocals on and using a strong loop it took me a long time to pull everything together for the following story.
Rudolph Jacob Velepec was born on Feb. 20th, 1899 in Missouri and he died sometime in the month of October 1976 in Monroe NY. (special thanks to GJ Member Bczygan, for finding that information). The next part I found after many long hours and Bczygan did indeed confirm that I found his wife after many long hours of searching the records.
His wife was Elizabeth K. Velepec (born Spindler) on the 16th of October, 1903, and she died on August the 24th, 1996 at the age of 92. They had two children Douglas R. Velepec and Herbert Velepec.
Rudolph was a very busy man and he has many patents to his name dealing with screwdrivers and one I found dealing with a coin operated machine.
After I found his patents I started to read them over and before long I figured out with a little pulling I could take it apart, hence his patent for keeping the two parts in place. The third part (see above) was not a patent number but marked only as "Lok Blok", I imagine a special name that Upson used in all their drivers at that time. Having invented the special screw holding feature I did find one patent that went back as far as 1927 and it listed the Upson Brothers as the company making that special screwdriver.
Just how far back that company went I have no idea as the literature is lacking in that area. I took several more pictures and if you look very hard at one of the pictures, you can just make out a set of patent numbers under all that amber.
A Few links for you to look at and a story that I hope you will all enjoy on this winter evening in November.
https://www.myheritage.com/names/elizabeth_spindler
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...50&s1=2840382.PN.&OS=PN/2840382&RS=PN/2840382
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2141072
http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=40528
http://datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=40529
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=...&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=...&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2141072.pdf
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2903183A/en
Deep within the amber handle were three sets of information, two sets of patent numbers and one special trade name used by the Upson Brothers. Now even with my bifocals on and using a strong loop it took me a long time to pull everything together for the following story.
Rudolph Jacob Velepec was born on Feb. 20th, 1899 in Missouri and he died sometime in the month of October 1976 in Monroe NY. (special thanks to GJ Member Bczygan, for finding that information). The next part I found after many long hours and Bczygan did indeed confirm that I found his wife after many long hours of searching the records.
His wife was Elizabeth K. Velepec (born Spindler) on the 16th of October, 1903, and she died on August the 24th, 1996 at the age of 92. They had two children Douglas R. Velepec and Herbert Velepec.
Rudolph was a very busy man and he has many patents to his name dealing with screwdrivers and one I found dealing with a coin operated machine.
After I found his patents I started to read them over and before long I figured out with a little pulling I could take it apart, hence his patent for keeping the two parts in place. The third part (see above) was not a patent number but marked only as "Lok Blok", I imagine a special name that Upson used in all their drivers at that time. Having invented the special screw holding feature I did find one patent that went back as far as 1927 and it listed the Upson Brothers as the company making that special screwdriver.
Just how far back that company went I have no idea as the literature is lacking in that area. I took several more pictures and if you look very hard at one of the pictures, you can just make out a set of patent numbers under all that amber.
A Few links for you to look at and a story that I hope you will all enjoy on this winter evening in November.
https://www.myheritage.com/names/elizabeth_spindler
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...50&s1=2840382.PN.&OS=PN/2840382&RS=PN/2840382
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2141072
http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=40528
http://datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=40529
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=...&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page
http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=...&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2141072.pdf
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2903183A/en
