Patent Model - Metal-Drawing Die
Maker and role
George Thackray (b.1856, d.1944), Patentee
Production date
Sep 10 1895
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, brass
Measurements
5 x 7" (12.7 x 17.8cm)
Description
Thackray's patent provides "new and improved forms of sectional or adjustable drawing-dies for use in drawing metal rods or bars for the purpose of giving their surfaces an accurate form and finish or for increasing their strength and elastic limit or for successively reducing the section, as in wire-drawing." (Patent Number 546,202)
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Object number
2015.14.3660a,b
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