Fence. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Fence.

Creator

  • Inventor: Ford, Benjamin Franklin
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Ford, B.F., of Hollis, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Hollis, C. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Ford, B. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1884-05-20
  • Acceptance Date: 1884-05-20
  • Submission Date: 1883-10-04

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "ha[s] its rails arranged diagonally to the line of fencing, consisting of the double end posts, bound together at their upper ends by means of the crown-wire . . . the intermediate single posts, the horizontal rails having their ends alternately lapping the inner and outer sides of the said single posts, the transverse blocks, interposed between the respective rails, and the top rails bound to the single posts by means of the wire loops" (lines 78-88).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

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

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Madison County - Hollis

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: 298961
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170752

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,961, dated May 20, 1884. Application filed October 4, 1883. (No model.)"
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