Car Coupling. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Car Coupling.

Creator

  • Inventor: Hathaway, Charles L.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Hathaway, C.L., of Austin, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Stanley, H. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Anderson, W. P.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1883-09-25
  • Acceptance Date: 1883-09-25
  • Submission Date: 1883-07-07

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. With this design, "[w]hen the cars are coupled, the shoulders upon the draw-heads will bear against each other, pressing the spring-bolts forward, which will tilt the free ends of the bails forward over the ends of the opposite draw-heads, thus forming a strong and safe coupling which may be uncoupled in a moment of time" (lines 92-98).
  • 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: car-couplings
  • Keyword: railroad cars

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Travis County - Austin

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: 285616
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170626

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,616, dated September 25, 1883. Application filed July 7, 1883. (No model.)"
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