Artificial Fruit, Foliage, and Flowers. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Artificial Fruit, Foliage, and Flowers.

Creator

  • Inventor: Eve, Emma H.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Eve, E.H., of Lockhart, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Harris, Sidon
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Harris, Lucy
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1887-05-24
  • Acceptance Date: 1887-05-24
  • Submission Date: 1887-03-23

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved method of making artificial fruit. This design "consists in cutting out a piece of lace or netting of the desired shape, forming the lace or netting into a bag, stuffing the bag with cotton or wool . . . picking the cotton or wool up through the meshes of the lace or netting, cutting narrow strips of tissue-paper, and applying them in layers until a covering similar to pasteboard is formed, drying the article, painting the article, sinking the article in a bath of wax heated to a point beneath boiling . . . letting it drain off, and finally applying a paint finish" (lines 34-47).
  • 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: centerpieces
  • Keyword: artificial fruit
  • Keyword: artificial foliage

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Caldwell County - Lockhart

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: 363736
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171539

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,736, dated May 24, 1887. Application filed March 23, 1887. Serial No. 232,167. (No model.)"
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