Tool for Building Wire Fences. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Tool for Building Wire Fences.

Creator

  • Inventor: Highsmith, Lewis C.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Lewis C. Highsmith, of Canton, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Coleman, W. D.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Kearby, J. P.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Ober, B. S.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for Illustration.
  • Other: C. A. Snow & Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Attorneys.
  • Printer: National Lithographing Company
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: The National Lithographing Company, Washington, D. C.

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1894-05-15
  • Acceptance Date: 1894-05-15
  • Submission Date: 1894-02-13

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a simple and effective tool used for building wire fences that is "a nail holding and driving device, a measuring attachment, and a wire cutter" (lines 12-14).
  • Physical Description: [1], 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Architecture - Construction
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Ranching - Barbed Wire
  • Keyword: wires
  • Keyword: fences
  • Keyword: multi-purposes

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Van Zandt County - Canton

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

  • Accession or Local Control No: 519710
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth173723

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed February 13, 1894. Serial No. 500,101. (No model.)
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