Patent information:
| Patent: | Utility 119,987 |
| Patented: | October 17, 1871 |
| Applied: | |
| Title: | Improvement in Machines for Making Lightning Rods |
| Description: | Machine for making lightning rods (see 113,154) by wrapping wires around a central core, covering with a sheath of sheet copper, and coiling up the rod as it is produced |
| Category: | Lightning Rod Machine |
| Assigned to: |
Patentee Information:
| KNAPP, George S. | Winona, MN |
Class and subclass information:
| Class: | 29 | METAL WORKING |
| Subclass: | 728 | MEANS TO ASSEMBLE OR DISASSEMBLE; Means to place sheath on running-length core; |
| Class: | 140 | WIREWORKING |
| Subclass: | 149 | |
| Class: | 29 | METAL WORKING |
| Subclass: | 517 | METHOD OF MECHANICAL MANUFACTURE; Assembling or joining; Joining by deforming; Inward deformation of aperture or hollow body wall; Hollow body is axially joined cup or tube; Joined to rod; |
| Class: | 29 | METAL WORKING |
| Subclass: | 742 | MEANS TO ASSEMBLE OR DISASSEMBLE; Means to assemble electrical device; Multiple station assembly apparatus; |
| Class: | 57 | TEXTILES: SPINNING, TWISTING, AND TWINING |
| Subclass: | 15 |
Known specimens:
| None known |
Drawings:
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