Fireproof Floor. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Fireproof Floor.

Creator

  • Inventor: Shields, Patrick T.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Patrick T. Shields, of San Antonio, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Cunningham, J. W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Wheeler, M. D.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: The Norris Peters Co., Photo-Litho., Washington, D. C.

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1902-11-18
  • Acceptance Date: 1902-11-18
  • Submission Date: 1902-03-15

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for an improved fireproof floor, which provides a light, rigid fire- and sound-proof flooring that is simple in construction. In addition, the ceiling construction allow the walls of a building to be strengthened against sagging or bulging, and also provides a continuous concrete-ceiling surface, allowing plaster coating or other material to be securely held without the need of another surface to support it.
  • 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
  • Keyword: fireproof floors
  • Keyword: form slabs with reinforcements

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Bexar County - San Antonio

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: 714047
  • Government Documents No.: 02/98379
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth514931

Note

  • Display Note: "Application filed March 15, 1902. Serial No. 98,379. (No model.)"
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