Trailer. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Trailer.

Creator

  • Inventor: Watkins, Leigh
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Leigh Watkins, of San Antonio, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Blum, H. W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Baird, W. K.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Diehl, Frederick
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for illustration.
  • Witness: Kichin, A. L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for illustration.

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1917-08-28
  • Acceptance Date: 1917-08-28
  • Submission Date: 1916-10-21

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for "...an improved construction and arrangement of trailers and has for an object that provision of means which will allow as easy turning movement where a number of trailers are connected while admitting of strain between the various trailers, whereby they are propelled properly around a curve." (lines 5-15) including illustrations.
  • Physical Description: 2, 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: motor vehicles
  • Keyword: trailers

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: 1238603
  • Government Documents No.: 02/126909
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth854104

Note

  • Display Note: "Application filed October 21, 1916. Serial No. 126,909."
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