Electric Car Brake. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Electric Car Brake.

Creator

  • Inventor: Conover, Philip Vorus
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Conover, P.V., of Uvalde, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Archer, Eugene
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Spencer, A. J.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1882-09-26
  • Acceptance Date: 1882-09-26
  • Submission Date: 1882-08-08

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved electric car brake. This design "consists in a combination . . . of a friction-wheel mounted on a laterally-adjustable vertical shaft, provided at its upper end with a beveled cog-wheel, engaging with a beveled cog-wheel on a horizontal shaft, journaled in the under side of the car-floor, on which horizontal shaft is loosely mounted a worm, which engages with a worm-wheel mounted on [a] shaft . . . when this worm is locked on the shaft . . . the brake-chain will be wound on the shaft of the worm-wheel, and the brakes will be applied" (lines 10-23).
  • Physical Description: [2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: electric brakes
  • Keyword: railroad cars
  • Keyword: trolley cars

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Uvalde County - Uvalde

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: 265023
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170416

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,023, dated September 26, 1882. Application filed August 8, 1882. (No model.)"
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