Medicine Case. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Medicine Case.

Creator

  • Inventor: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Zanetti, F.C., of Bryan, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Walker, W. J.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Gaillaro, John
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Gaillaro, Jno.
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1886-05-11
  • Acceptance Date: 1886-05-11
  • Submission Date: 1885-10-09

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved medicine case. This design is "to provide a series of receptacles for the medicine to be taken or administered, said receptacles being of different colors, to avoid mistakes or errors in the distributions of the medicines; to provide means for accurately indicating the medicine to be taken; to indicate the time which said medicine shall be taken; to provide means for holding a spoon or other article within the cases for taking the medicine when in a liquid or powder form" (lines 15-25).
  • 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: medicine cases
  • Keyword: medication

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Brazos County - Bryan

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: 341621
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171260

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,621, dated May 11, 1886. Application filed October 9, 1885. Serial No. 179,457. (No model.)"
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