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Frank A. Jefferson received US Patent No. 2,145,878 on February 7, 1939, filed October 14, 1936.
The patent's description opens (from the scanned text):
This invention relates to improvements in Wicks, and its objects are as follow: First, to provide a wick which has a body of highly absorptive material, to readily lift the oil 5 .by capillary attraction, and a margin which is also composed of absorptive material but which will not be charred by the flame burning at the edge thereof.
- Author
- Frank A. Jefferson
- Published by
- US Patent Office
- Series
- US Patent No. 2,145,878
- Date
- February 7, 1939
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 23861 · asbestosclaims.law/library/23861
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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Where it was listed
- Asbestos, April 1939, in its patents department (the year's issues)
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Frank A. Jefferson. “Wick (US Patent 2,145,878, 1939).” February 7, 1939. US Patent No. 2,145,878. US Patent Office. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 23861. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/23861.
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