Washing Machine. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Washing Machine.

Creator

  • Inventor: Gardner, David
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Gardner, D., of White Wright, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Binford, R. A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Marshall, J. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1892-10-25
  • Acceptance Date: 1892-10-25
  • Submission Date: 1891-10-16

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved washing-machine. This design "is to simplify and improve the construction of washing machines and to enable clothes to be thoroughly washed without liability of injuring them" (lines 10-14). This design consists in "a frame comprising the legs, the rounds connecting the legs, and the parallel horizontal side bars connecting the upper ends of the legs at each side of the frame, the ends of the frame being open at the top, a diamond-shaped washing-machine body journaled between the sides of the frame, the spiral springs arranged at each end of the horizontal bars" (lines 89-98).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: washing machines
  • Keyword: washers

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Grayson County - Whitewright

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: 484892
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth173199

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,892, dated October 25, 1892. Application filed October 16, 1891. Serial No. 408,910. (No model.)"
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