The Elliptic Concave Leaf Spring Company Record, 1881 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Record book for The Elliptic Concave Leaf Spring Company including minutes of the organizational meeting (August 9, 25, 1881) in New York, and copies of the certificate of incorporation (August 2, 1881), by-laws, treasurer's bond (August 9, 1881), certificate of full payment of capital stock (August 25, 1881), contract between the United States Concave Spring company and Krepps Brothers for rights to Edward Spaulding's February 18, 1881 patent of "a new and improved concaved spring" (July 7, 1881), Krepps Brothers assignment of the contract to the Elliptic Concave Leaf Spring Company and a release of Krepps Brothers by the U. S. Concave Spring Company (August 9, 1881).  The volume provides an example of business law forms and nineteenth penmanship.