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Robert Adams R.A.V (Robert Adams Victor) door closer 556

7/16/2017

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Robert Adams moved into the door closer business it appears from around 1927 with another product in the Victor line, that being the R.A.V (Robert Adams Victor) door closer. The model number on the one I am showing you is size 556 roughly equivalent to a Briton B.
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I have discovered however that this was not Robert Adams own design. I can find no patent for this model door closer associated to the Adams name and as can be seen from my pictures it is identical to a Yale 62 and was probably just that a Yale YR 62 re-branded.

The RAV in the above advert it should be noted has the valve mounted on top rather than in the end. This is still a Yale 62 but known as the Y62 introduced in 1911 as a successor to the  Yale/Blount after Yale bought and marketed Blounts original design which goes back as far as 1883.

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As you can see in the above the RAV is identical to the G & S Allgood (YALE YR62). Below is the YALE 202 bracket from the Allgood, again identical to the one on the RAV.
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