Tent and Attachment. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Tent and Attachment.

Creator

  • Inventor: Turner, Epraim Meral
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Turner, E. M., of Fort Worth, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Morgan, R. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Seyfreidt, W. C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1889-11-26
  • Acceptance Date: 1889-11-26
  • Submission Date: 1889-07-29

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved tent. This design is "to provide a tent-frame in such a manner that it may be readily folded into small compass, and which when extended for use will be very strong and serviceable" (lines 14-17). To this end, it consists of a cap, "of the rafters pivoted in the walls of said recesses and having their ends formed with a short incline or bevel and a longer or different incline or bevel" (lines 1-4).
  • 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: tents
  • Keyword: folding tents

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Tarrant County - Fort Worth

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: 415826
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth172210

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,826, dated November 26, 1889. Application filed July 29, 1889. Serial No. 319,116. (No model.)"
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