Patent Model - Improvement in Car-Trucks
Maker and role
Enoch Marsters (b.1825, d.1908), Patentee
Robert Fisher (b.1842, d.1903), Patentee
Enoch Marsters (b.1825, d.1908), Assignee
Production date
Apr 23 1878
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, iron, brass
Measurements
13 x 7 x 4 1/2" (33 x 17.8 x 11.4cm)
13" (33cm)
7" (17.8cm)
4 1/2" (11.4cm)
13" (33cm)
7" (17.8cm)
4 1/2" (11.4cm)
Description
Marsters and Fisher's patented "Improvement in Railway-Car Trucks" provides "a railway-car truck in which the wheels shall at all times be caused to conform to the curve or the line of the rails, to take automatically a proper radial position when they strike and are running upon a curve, and to move in the same manner into their first position when the straight track is reached." (Patent Number 202,737)
Collection
Object number
2015.14.2575
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