Dressing Millstones. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Dressing Millstones.
  • Added Title Millstone Dress.

Creator

  • Inventor: Gaines, Edmund P.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: E. P. Gaines, of Melrose, Texas

Contributor

  • Witness: Harris, John W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Culp, Daniel D.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: N. Peters, Photo-Lithographer, Washington D. C.

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1851-03-04
  • Acceptance Date: 1851-03-04

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding every kind of grain into meal flour &c., &c." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
  • Physical Description: [1], 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Farm Equipment
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Processing and Storage
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Millstones -- Patents.
  • Keyword: mills
  • Keyword: grain processing
  • Keyword: disklike comminuting surfaces
  • Keyword: radial comminuting faces
  • Keyword: grain comminution

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Nacogdoches County - Melrose

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 7980
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth165032

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