Weight Motor. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Weight Motor.

Creator

  • Inventor: Spencer, Hiram A.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Spencer, H.A., of Rogers, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Chandler, F. M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Thomas, E. M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1886-12-07
  • Acceptance Date: 1886-12-07
  • Submission Date: 1885-06-09

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved weight-motor. This design consists in "the drum having the ratchet-wheel, the gear-wheel having the pawl engaging the ratchet-wheel, the lever extending from the track and adapted to be operated by the wheels of a passing train, the push-rod attached to the said lever and adapted to engage the ratchet-wheel to rotate the latter, the rope attached to the drum and having the weights, the trip-lever to move the push-rod out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel, and the rod attached to the said trip-lever and having an arm extending in the path of the weight" (lines 48-59).
  • 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: weight-motors
  • Keyword: motors
  • Keyword: railroads
  • Keyword: railways

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Bell County - Rogers

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: 353717
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171411

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,717, dated December 7, 1886. Application filed June 9, 1885. Serial No. 168,161. (No model.)"
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