Objects: NEW EXHIBITION: PATENT REPUBLIC
Object Name:
stop attachment for roller skate
Inventory Number: L2009-1-0075
Alternate Numbers:
322,173: Patent Number
Classification: Patent Model
Owner: U.S. Patent Office
77 items related to this constituent
Inventor: Josiah P. Geran
Geography:
Place of Origin: Washington
Cultural Region: United States
Date: 1885
Material:
leather, metal, wood
Description: The roller skate is equipped in the front and in the back with a pair of wooden wheels linked together. A curve piece of metal, to which is attached a piece of chalk, is used as a heel break. Two sets of leather straps with buckles are used to tighten the shoe onto the skate. A piece of metal at the heel solidifies the welder on the skate.
Accessories: original U.S. Patent identification tags (3)
Signed: on top of skate's sole: LOWE & STEVENS
Provenance: Originally owned by the U.S. Patent Office.
Creditline: Susan M. E. Glendening is working toward establishing a museum as a permanent home for this model and her collection of over 250 patent models. The planned museum site is an 1844 federal house with a rich history, lush grounds, and a breath taking view of the Hudson River. If you are interested in becoming involved in protecting these models, please contact her at 845-534-9124 (cell: 845-656-4821). glendeningsusan@hotmail.com
Inventory Number: L2009-1-0075
Alternate Numbers:
322,173: Patent Number
Classification: Patent Model
Owner: U.S. Patent Office
77 items related to this constituent
Inventor: Josiah P. Geran
Geography:
Place of Origin: Washington
Cultural Region: United States
Date: 1885
Material:
leather, metal, wood
Description: The roller skate is equipped in the front and in the back with a pair of wooden wheels linked together. A curve piece of metal, to which is attached a piece of chalk, is used as a heel break. Two sets of leather straps with buckles are used to tighten the shoe onto the skate. A piece of metal at the heel solidifies the welder on the skate.
Accessories: original U.S. Patent identification tags (3)
Signed: on top of skate's sole: LOWE & STEVENS
Provenance: Originally owned by the U.S. Patent Office.
Creditline: Susan M. E. Glendening is working toward establishing a museum as a permanent home for this model and her collection of over 250 patent models. The planned museum site is an 1844 federal house with a rich history, lush grounds, and a breath taking view of the Hudson River. If you are interested in becoming involved in protecting these models, please contact her at 845-534-9124 (cell: 845-656-4821). glendeningsusan@hotmail.com
Function:
This model relates to the improvement of stop attachments for roller skates. The object of this invention is to provide attachments by the use of which the advance of skaters can be readily checked, and which will serve as safeguard to prevent the skater from falling backward.
For a complete description of this invention, go to the following website.
For general historical information on roller skates, go to the following website. (This information was found by Jeffrey Clinton Holder, member of the Patent Model Exhibition project.)
Dimensions (H x W x D):
12 x 28 x 10 cm (4 3/4 x 11 x 3 15/16 in.)
Curatorial Remarks: Lowe & Stevens was probably a skate company in New York. They could have made this model, or rather the inventor would have used an existing skate to demonstrate how the invention could easily fit any type of roller skate.
Frederick Stevens is known to have manufactured skates in the second half of the nineteenth century. No information, however, has been found on Lowe & Stevens.
For a complete description of this invention, go to the following website.
For general historical information on roller skates, go to the following website. (This information was found by Jeffrey Clinton Holder, member of the Patent Model Exhibition project.)
Dimensions (H x W x D):
12 x 28 x 10 cm (4 3/4 x 11 x 3 15/16 in.)
Curatorial Remarks: Lowe & Stevens was probably a skate company in New York. They could have made this model, or rather the inventor would have used an existing skate to demonstrate how the invention could easily fit any type of roller skate.
Frederick Stevens is known to have manufactured skates in the second half of the nineteenth century. No information, however, has been found on Lowe & Stevens.