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Patents

George A. Peate was an inventor, and holds early patents for
a mechanism to fine tune fretted instrument strings.
A search of subsequent patents reveals the influence of Peate's original work.
Certain contemporary fine tuners are strikingly similar in design.

Patents below:

Feb. 16, 1937
Tuner For Stringed Instruments
pat2070916.pdf
USA

March 8, 1938
[Expired March 8, 1955]
Tuner For Stringed Instruments
Canada #CA372400 
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Sept. 13, 1938
Tuner For Stringed Instruments
pat2130248.pdf
USA