Wire Stretcher. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Wire Stretcher.

Creator

  • Inventor: Mason, James Alexander
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Mason, J.A., of Savoy, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Hinshaw, E. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Teague, W. L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1887-07-19
  • Acceptance Date: 1887-07-19
  • Submission Date: 1887-05-25

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "the combination of a bar provided with a toothed quadrant and with a boss having an overhanging projection at its rear end, an eccentric pivoted on the face of the said boss for holding the wire against the projection, a hand-lever pivoted to the bar, and provided with a spring-detent engaging with a toothed quadrant, a plate pivoted at one end to the hand-lever and provided with an overhanging projection, and a second eccentric pivoted upon the face of the plate for gripping the wire against the projection" (lines 77-88).
  • 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: wire-stretchers
  • Keyword: fences

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Fannin County - Savoy

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: 366853
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171578

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,853, dated July 19, 1887. Application filed May 25, 1887. Serial No. 239,313. (No model.)"
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