Patent information:

Patent:Reissue 8,429
Patented:September 24, 1878
Applied:August 3, 1878
Title:Improvement in Lightning Rods
Description:Star shaped lightning rod made of 4-edged angle iron with a sheet of copper pressed over the outer surface and then twisted (see 92,551)
Category:Lightning Rod
Assigned to:Rights of Vermilya to Reyburn, Hunter, and Byron P. Moulton

Patentee Information:

VERMILYA, Leland D. Dayton, OH
REYBURN, William S. Philadelphia, PA
HUNTER, Edmund A. W. Philadelphia, PA

Class and subclass information:

Class:428STOCK MATERIAL OR MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
Subclass:592ALL METAL OR WITH ADJACENT METALS Helical or with helical component;
Class:174ELECTRICITY: CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
Subclass:133RCONDUITS, CABLES OR CONDUCTORS Conductor structure (nonsuperconductive) Noncircular strand section;
Class:428STOCK MATERIAL OR MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
Subclass:598ALL METAL OR WITH ADJACENT METALS Having member which crosses the plane of another member (e.g., T or X cross section, etc.);

Known specimens:

None known

Drawings:

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