Apparatus for Loading Wagons. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Apparatus for Loading Wagons.

Creator

  • Inventor: Bernard, Alfred Franklin
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Bernard, A. F., of Weatherford, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Speer, G. K.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Garvin, T. A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1888-11-27
  • Acceptance Date: 1888-11-27
  • Submission Date: 1888-05-26

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved apparatus for loading wagons. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform having the opening and the trap-doors, the fastening devices to secure the trap-doors when closed and to permit the same to open, and the counter-weights connected to the trap-doors" (lines 24-28).
  • Physical Description: [2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: wagons
  • Keyword: earth-movers
  • Keyword: excavators

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Parker County - Weatherford

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: 393499
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171911

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,499, dated November 27, 1888. Application filed May 26, 1888. Serial No. 275,247 (No model.)"
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