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See also: English locksmith, started a hardware business at Winchester, subsequently removing to Portsea
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Here he improved on the " detector " See also: lock (q.v.), originally patented in 1818 by his See also: brother, See also: Jeremiah Chubb
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He soon moved to See also: London and then to Wolverhampton, where he employed two See also: hundred hands
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In 1835 he patented a See also: process intended to render See also: safes (q.v.) burglar-proof and fireproof, and subsequently established a large safe-factory in London
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He died on the 16th of May 1845, and was succeeded in the business by his son, See also: John Chubb (1816-1872), who patented various improvements in the products of the
See also: firm and largely increased its output
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The factories were combined under one roof in a See also: model plant, and the business See also: grew to enormous proportions
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After John Chubb's See also: death the business was converted into a limited See also: company under the management of his three sons
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