Patent Model - Improved Coil-Spring and its Attachments
Maker and role
Timothy Rose, Patentee
Platt Buell, Patentee
Production date
Dec 07 1869
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, metal
Measurements
6 x 5 x 4" (15.2 x 12.7 x 10.2cm)
Description
Rose and Buell's patent is intended "to provide a coil-spring for beds, car and wagon-seats, chairs, and the like, in a given space, will give more elasticity than the ordinary coil-spring, and is combined with a cavity underneath the spring in the form of a concave, into which the spring may be pressed, the successive coils resting upon the concave when pressed down." (Patent Number 97,705)
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Object number
2015.14.1121
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