Vehicle Top.

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Patent for a new and improved vehicle-top. This design "is to simplify, improve, and cheapen the construction of vehicle-tops . . . and enable the sliding curtain to be more readily and securely fastened to the standards and bows of the carriage-top" (lines 12-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting-bows provided with longitudinal grooves, and the curtain-carrying frame comprising flat flexible strips arranged in the said grooves and provided at intervals with inwardly-extending plates having perforations, and the parallel cross-pieces secured to the plates" (lines 84-90).

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[2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

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McCurdy, Thomas B. September 30, 1890.

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Patent for a new and improved vehicle-top. This design "is to simplify, improve, and cheapen the construction of vehicle-tops . . . and enable the sliding curtain to be more readily and securely fastened to the standards and bows of the carriage-top" (lines 12-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting-bows provided with longitudinal grooves, and the curtain-carrying frame comprising flat flexible strips arranged in the said grooves and provided at intervals with inwardly-extending plates having perforations, and the parallel cross-pieces secured to the plates" (lines 84-90).

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[2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

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"SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,224, dated September 30, 1890. Application filed April 25, 1890. Serial No. 349,522. (No model.)"

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  • September 30, 1890

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  • September 30, 1890

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  • April 25, 1890

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McCurdy, Thomas B. Vehicle Top., patent, September 30, 1890; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172483/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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