Bedstead Attachment. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Bedstead Attachment.

Creator

  • Inventor: McCormick, Henry Jasper
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: McCormick, H. J., of Santa Anna, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Walker, H. D.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Oliver, E. W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1887-12-27
  • Acceptance Date: 1887-12-27
  • Submission Date: 1887-07-13

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved bedstead attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails and head and foot boards, of the plates having angular projections provided with wedge-shaped grooves and small inclined recesses at their upper parts, and the plates having the tapering wedge-shaped projections provided with the lugs integrally formed with their upper portions and adapted to engage the recesses, whereby when the projecting engaging portions of the plates . . . wear and become loose they are prevented from disjointure by the engagement of the lugs" (lines 83-94).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: bedsteads
  • Keyword: bed frames

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Coleman County - Santa Anna

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: 375645
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171692

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,645, dated December 27, 1887. Application filed July 13, 1887. Serial No. 244,154 (No model.)"
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