Grapple for Handling Well Pipes or Tubes. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Grapple for Handling Well Pipes or Tubes.

Creator

  • Inventor: Smith, Thomas McGlothlin
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Thomas McGlothin Smith, of Stanton, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Flanagan, F. W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Konz, Paul
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1897-04-13
  • Acceptance Date: 1897-04-13
  • Submission Date: 1896-12-26

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for "a simple and inexpensive device adapted for readily gripping a well pipe or tubing to enable the same to be readily removed from a well or lowered within." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
  • 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: Science and Technology - Tools

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Martin County - Stanton

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: 580737
  • Government Documents No.: 02/617048
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth174580

Note

  • Display Note: Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 580,737, dated April 13, 1897. Application filed December 26, 1896. Serial No. 617,048. (No model.)
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