House-Moving Truck.

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Patent for a simple, easy to use house-moving truck that goes under the sills of a house after it has been lifted from its foundation. It has "a swiveled caster, which is held in place by means of removable plates and braced by removable rods held in eyes of screw-rods, which pass through the bed-plate of the device and engage in the sleepers or sills of the building to be moved" (lines 19-24).

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[1], 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Davis, Mace September 10, 1895.

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Patent for a simple, easy to use house-moving truck that goes under the sills of a house after it has been lifted from its foundation. It has "a swiveled caster, which is held in place by means of removable plates and braced by removable rods held in eyes of screw-rods, which pass through the bed-plate of the device and engage in the sleepers or sills of the building to be moved" (lines 19-24).

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[1], 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Application filed March 19, 1895. Serial No. 542,435. (No model.)

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Davis, Mace. House-Moving Truck., patent, September 10, 1895; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174089/: accessed June 24, 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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