Box 2
Container
Contains 30 Results:
"Agreement Concerning Patents and Inventions", 1909 November 27
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
The original contract between Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright and the Wright Company signed on November 27, 1909. The Wrights agreed to transfer and assign to the Wright Company patents 821,393 dated May 26, 1906 for “improvements in flying machines” and 908,929 dated June 5, 1909 for “improvements in mechanism for flexing the rudder of flying machines or the like.” The agreement also transferred “one aeroplane complete” and rights to three patent applications. The document is signed by...
Dates:
1909 November 27
Assignment of Rights, 1915 October 15
File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
An assignment of all rights by T. Frank Manville and Frederick Y. Robertson to Albert H. Wiggin and William B. Thompson in a contract with Orville Wright dated August 26, 1915. The document was signed and notarized on October 15, 1915 in accordance with the terms of a contract dated October 4, 1915, between Manville and Robertson and Wiggin and Thompson that required the assignment immediately after the closing of the Wright contract. 2 pages.
Dates:
1915 October 15
Certificate of Incorporation -- transcript, 1909 June 18 - 1920 October 1
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Transcript of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Wright Company certified as correct by the Second Deputy of State of New York, C.W. Taft, on October 1, 1920. The original Certificate was signed by Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, George A. Steves, Henry S. Hooker, and Alpheus F. Barnes on June 18,1909, and notarized by J. R. Thomson in Montgomery County, Ohio, on June 20, 1909. The original was recorded by John M. Ebert, Clerk of the Common Pleas Court for Montgomery County on June 20,...
Dates:
1909 June 18 - 1920 October 1
Proxies for stockholders, 1910
File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
One folder labeled "#4" containing 9 proxies for the meeting to be held on December 7, 1910. Each proxy contains the name of the stockholder and the name of the proxy authorized to vote upon all stock held and act fully on all business. There are proxies for Henry Hooker, M. F. Plant, George A. Steves, August Belmont, T. P. Shonts, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Freedman, Robert J. Collier, and John D. Lindsay. Each Proxy is signed by the stockholder and lists Wilbur Wright as the proxy. All...
Dates:
1910
Board and Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1910-1914
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Wright Company includes material dating from 1909-1927 and is divided into three subseries: Administrative, Legal and Financial records.The Administrative records subseries consists of bound volumes of documents. Two bound volumes with documents glued in and one additional file consist of minutes from meetings of the board of directors and executive committee. The minutes reflect such things as the reorganization of leadership in late 1915,...
Dates:
1910-1914
Agreement for the sale of the Wright Company, 1915 August 26
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
An Agreement between T. Frank Manville and Frederick Y. Robertson of New York and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, for the sale of the Wright Company. The agreement states that the Wright Company has an authorized capital stock of $1,000,000 par value and is the owner of Patent Number 821,393 for “heavier-than-air flying machines. Robertson and Manville agree to pay Wright $250,000 for 7760 shares of stock (97% of the issued capital stock). The agreement specifies that a contract between the...
Dates:
1915 August 26
Contract between Wright Company and Orville Wright, 1915 October
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
A contract between the Wright Company and Orville Wright (the “inventor of the so-called Wright Aeroplane”). The Wright Company agrees to engage Orville Wright as a consulting engineer for $25,000 annually because he is “a pioneer in the art of flying, and has peculiar ability in connection therewith, and is an engineer of standing and repute.” Wright agrees to assign to the Company “such inventions as he may make in heavier-than-air flying machines and appurtenances thereto.” The Wright...
Dates:
1915 October
"Consent to corporate mortgage", 1915 October 9
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Consent to execute and deliver a mortgage constituting a first lien on all patents, applications for patents, and real estate in Dayton as security for a $250,000 bond. The document is signed by Orville Wright (as owner of 6600 shares) and Katharine Wright (as owner of 1100 shares) on October 9, 1915. The document is notarized by Frederick Howard and a certificate issued by the Clerk of Common Please Court in Montgomery County, Ohio is attached. The document also includes the sworn statement...
Dates:
1915 October 9
Unsigned agreement between Wright Company and Orville Wright, 1915 October 15
File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
An unsigned file copy of an agreement between Orville Wright and the Wright Company in which Wright agrees to cancel the agreement of November 27, 1909 and assign all rights, title, and interests to all inventions in connection with heavier-than-air flying machines and all rights there under in Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Asia. Wright also agreed to discharge all outstanding debts of the Wright Company and indemnify it from all loss and damages that might
result from...
Dates:
1915 October 15
Bond of the Wright Company to Orville Wright, 1915 October 9
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Signed $250,000 bond of the Wright Company to Orville Wright. Payment was to be made in two equal annual installments due October 15, 1916 and 1917. Interest of 6% was to be paid semi-annually in April and October. The document was signed by Lorin Wright as Vice-President and attested to by Katherine Wright as Secretary and bears the 1909 embossed seal of the Wright Company. The signatures were notarized by Frederick Howard on October 9, 1915 and bears his notary seal. In the margin of page...
Dates:
1915 October 9