Flooring or Ceiling Jack. (open access)

Flooring or Ceiling Jack.

Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Holiman, William Moses
System: The Portal to Texas History