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: | 428 | STOCK MATERIAL OR MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES |
| Subclass: | 592 | ALL METAL OR WITH ADJACENT METALS; Helical or with helical component; |
| Class: | 174 | ELECTRICITY: CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS |
| Subclass: | 133R | CONDUITS, CABLES OR CONDUCTORS; Conductor structure (nonsuperconductive); Noncircular strand section; |
| Class: | 428 | STOCK MATERIAL OR MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES |
| Subclass: | 598 | ALL 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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