Axle Box for Locomotives. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Axle Box for Locomotives.

Creator

  • Inventor: Carlson, Frank August
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Carlson, F. A., of Dallas, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Clark, William H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Clark, Wm. H.
  • Witness: Dongler, H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1889-05-21
  • Acceptance Date: 1889-05-21
  • Submission Date: 1889-02-25

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design "has relation to self-adjusting wedges for axle or driving boxes for locomotives, and has for its objects to produce a wedge that is controlled by a spring, which can be readily and easily adjusted for removing the pounding and lost motion between the axle-box and pedestal" (lines 11-17).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: axles
  • Keyword: axle-boxes
  • Keyword: locomotives

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

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

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: 403735
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth172052

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,735, dated May 21, 1889. Application filed February 25, 1889. Serial No. 301,146. (No model.)"
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