Chuck,
When you say "bobweight" I take it that you're referring to the inertia block...and speaking of Rabbit's "interconnect" between Miller and Howland, did you notice that Howland actually applied for the patent in June of '28? It's on the top of the drawing posted earlier...
and I just noticed that the Miller drawing has the patent date and patent number cut off...that date is July '25, and the number is 1544673.
So that's from July of '25 to June of '28...if an Ithaca employee applied in June '28, it doesn't stand to reason that he just started jerking around with single triggers in June of that same year...so that pushes it back some
Why wouldn't Ithaca steamroll Miller and his designs when all Miller's designs were based on somebodies elses patented design anyway?...
Oh yeah, I was mistaken about EE Miller going off radar after '29...he was just on to different things like over/unders and sliding cheekpieces during the Depression
