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This discussion could be considered correct either way, yes the Whitehouse was called Butt-weld and The Patent Butted Tubing Company
patent document in 1897 No 24931 states “The invention consists of improvements to seamless steel and other tubes” and does not claim inventing Butted tubing nor is Butted Tubing stated in that Patent document as it probably would not have been allowed at the time as another Patent was already in force. Thus Reynolds claim to inventing is only for the process of
improvements to seamless steel and other tubes, surely a less confusing, original name could been applied.
My original statement of "The frame tubing is the butted type with a constant wall thickness (not thinning at the centres) on all tubes." This is a correct as it is clarifies the original request by evacReynolds531 to find "gauges Accles and Pollock Kromo tubes were drawn to.
" Butting" by Reynolds meaning is the "improvements to seamless steel and other tubes” ie wall thickness. A&P do state they use the Butted tubing in at least 1905 from what I have seen. Maybe Reynolds Patent had expired or A&P paid a royalty to use it or Reynolds did not have a claim to the "Butted" naming.
This is the origin of what is confusing to you.
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