Log-Loading Mechanism. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Log-Loading Mechanism.
  • Added Title Log Loading Mechanism.

Creator

  • Inventor: Fletcher, William Andrew
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: William Andrew Fletcher, of Beaumont, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Long, Sidney Albert
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Curley, Thomas Whitmarsh
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Ourand, Franck L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for Illustration.
  • Other: Louis Bagger & Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Attorneys.
  • Printer: Andrew B. Graham Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Andrew B. Graham, Photo-Litho., Washington, D. C.

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1896-04-14
  • Acceptance Date: 1896-04-14
  • Submission Date: 1895-09-21

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with means for locking said legs in a vertical position" (lines 23-30).
  • Physical Description: [4], 3 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: Business, Economics and Finance - Logging
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Transportation - Railroads
  • Keyword: loading
  • Keyword: cars

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Jefferson County - Beaumont

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: 558376
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth174266

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed September 21, 1895. Serial No. 563,242. (No model.)
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