Patent Model - Improved Travelling Trunk
Maker and role
Louis Ransom, Patentee
Production date
Aug 20 1867
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Leather, fabric, brass
Measurements
6 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 6" (16.5 x 15.9 x 15.2cm)
Description
Ransom's patent was intended to correct weaknesses in cubical trunks by "making them in the form of cylinders, the staves of which they are made being bound together by two or more strong, thick hoops, banded with iron..." (Patent Number 67,905)
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Object number
2015.14.740a,b
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