Large balance with “ANGLDILE” splashed across the front of a large circular dial that shows the weight; a smaller cylindrical dial on the back, set at an angle and seen by the clerk, shows weight and price. A metal tag at bottom reads “N.Y. CITY / APPROVED / TYPE 12 / SERIAL V / STYLE 303 GE / NO. 25286.”
The Angldile Computing Scale Company was established in 1908 in Elkhart, Indiana, and manufactured scales developed by Joseph Edward Cochran. It won a gold medal at Panama Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915.
Ref: Joseph E. Cochran, “Computing-Scale Dial,” U.S. Patent 956,682 (May 3, 1910).
Joseph E. Cochran, “Computing-Scale Dial,” U.S. Patent 957,934 (May 17, 1910).
Flynt Wayne, “True Weights. Ancient and Modern,” National Magazine 34 (1911): 525-528.
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