Tire Tightener. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Tire Tightener.

Creator

  • Inventor: Mayo, William Archer
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Mayo, W. A., of Paris, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Hill, T. S.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Ballinger, J. M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1890-04-29
  • Acceptance Date: 1890-04-29
  • Submission Date: 1890-01-16

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the spokes, the felly, and the tire . . . of the plates, each provided with rearwardly-extending apertured portions, forwardly-projecting fingers, and semi-socketed portions on their lower faces, the upper face of the plate being straight, its lower face inclined, the upper face of the plate inclined, and the lower face thereof straight, whereby when said plates are fitted in place, they will wedge between the felly and the shoulder of the spoke, said socket portions adapted to fit over said shouldered portion of the spokes" (lines 8-21).
  • 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: tires
  • Keyword: tire-tighteners

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Lamar County - Paris

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: 426730
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth172351

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,730, dated April 29, 1890. Application filed January 16, 1890. Serial No. 337,052. (No model.)"
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