Door Check. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Door Check.

Creator

  • Inventor: Maurer, Adam
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Maurer, A., of San Antonio, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Deussen, Charles
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Cotera, A. G.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1885-11-10
  • Acceptance Date: 1885-11-10
  • Submission Date: 1885-04-11

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "consists in the combination, with a jaw provided with a pocket having an opening in its bottom, of a pivoted bar having a bead or nipple, which bar is passed through the pocket, and of a spring held in the pocket jaw and resting on the bar" (lines 12-17).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: doors
  • Keyword: door-holders
  • Keyword: door-checks

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Bexar County - San Antonio

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: 330138
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171120

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,138, dated November 10, 1885. Application filed April 11, 1885. Serial No. 161,983. (Model.)"
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