Vehicle Top. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Vehicle Top.

Creator

  • Inventor: McCurdy, Thomas B.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: McCurdy, T. B., of Lancaster, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Stuart, E. G.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: George, William M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: George, Wm. M.
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1888-04-24
  • Acceptance Date: 1888-04-24
  • Submission Date: 1888-02-03

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved vehicle top. This design consists in "the combination of the supporting-bows having grooves in their side, the upper ends of the grooves overlapping the curtain-supporting frames, comprising the flexible side-bars provided with lateral tongues fitting in the grooves of the supporting-bows, and the cross-bars secured to the side bars and having their ends fitted in said grooves, and the covering secured to said frame" (lines 82-91).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: automobiles
  • Keyword: cars

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Dallas County - Lancaster

Relation

  • References: 367540

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: 381630
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171752

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,630, dated April 24, 1888. Application filed February 3, 1888. Serial No. 262,883 (No model.)"
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