Patent information:

Patent:Utility 152,153
Patented:June 16, 1874
Applied:January 11, 1873
Title:Improvement in Lightning Rods
Description:Lightning rod made of sheet metal rolled to form four tubular sections with two of the tubes fitted with dowell pins to connect the rod sections
Category:Lightning Rod
Assigned to: 

Patentee Information:

MOTT, John M. Chicago, IL

Class and subclass information:

Class:174ELECTRICITY: CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
Subclass:94RCONDUITS, CABLES OR CONDUCTORS Combined With joints Bare-conductor;
Class:174ELECTRICITY: CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
Subclass:133RCONDUITS, CABLES OR CONDUCTORS Conductor structure (nonsuperconductive) Noncircular strand section;
Class:403JOINTS AND CONNECTIONS
Subclass:292MEMBER ENDS JOINED BY INSERTED SECTION;
Class:52STATIC STRUCTURES (E.G., BUILDINGS)
Subclass:720.1SHAFT (I.E., ELONGATED RIGID STRUCTURE);

Known specimens:

None known

Drawings:

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