1838 Angell's Patent Model of a Loom Temple
date: label: model constructed
content: before 1838-10-19
label: patent date
content: 1838-10-19
name: label: inventor
content: Angell, Emory A.
notes: label: Description
content: Loom Temple Patent Model
label: Description
content: Patent No. 987, issued October 19, 1838
label: Description
content: Emory A. Angell of Killingly, Connecticut
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content: In his patent specification, Angell stated that “this temple is of the kind which holds the selvage of the cloth between jaws, which are opened by the beat of the lathe, and is in many respects similar to such as have been long in use.” He claimed, as his invention, the way in which the upper and lower jaws were connected by pins to form the hinge-joints.
label: Description
content: On the original wrapper containing the patent application papers is a faint handwritten note “see Saml. P. Mason’s Temple July 1837.” In the process of checking Angell’s patent, Charles M. Keller, the patent examiner, probably wrote that notation but found no conflict with the Mason patent and thus granted Angell his patent.
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topic: label: classified
content: Patent Models
label: classified
content: Invention
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Patent Models, Textile Machinery
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content: Textiles
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content: Patent Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Janssen, Barbara Suit. Patent Models Index
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T11414.013
label: catalog number
content: T11414.013
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 987
objectType: label: Object Name
content: loom temple patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)