Wire-Stretcher. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Wire-Stretcher.
  • Added Title Wire Stretcher.

Creator

  • Inventor: Cardwell, William C.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: William C. Cardwell, of Rice, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Hervey, A. C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Thompson, John A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Jno. A. Thompson.
  • Witness: Everett, Robert
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for Illustration.
  • Witness: Green, Thomas A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Thos. A. Green; Witness for Illustration.
  • Other: Norris, James L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Attorney.

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1895-07-23
  • Acceptance Date: 1895-07-23
  • Submission Date: 1895-04-02

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a simple, economical, and effictive wire-stretcher that uses "the fence-post as the fulcrum for the implement or tool in using the latter to stretch the wires longitudinally from post to post, and to provide a simple hand implement or tool by which a single person can rapidly string the fence-wires from post to post, stretch the wires, and kink or twist the same to take up slack" (lines 19-26).
  • 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 - Tools
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Ranching - Barbed Wire
  • Keyword: wires
  • Keyword: stretchers
  • Keyword: staples

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

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: 543290
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth174050

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed April 2, 1895. Serial No. 544,165. (No model.)
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