Pressure Device. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Pressure Device.

Creator

  • Inventor: Moore, William Alexander
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Moore, W.A., of Sherman, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Smith, J. F.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Wells, R. W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1883-08-28
  • Acceptance Date: 1883-08-28
  • Submission Date: 1883-05-19

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved compacter. This design "has relation to portable pressure-devices for use in casks, boxes, barrels, or other receptacles; and the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pointed dogs and cam-levers pivoted together, and in the combination therewith of a pivot-bolt having its nut secured by means of a locking-key" (lines 20-27).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: compacters

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Grayson County - Sherman

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: 284044
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170611

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,044, dated August 28, 1883. Application filed May 19, 1883. (No model.)"
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