PUMP, TIRE

Description: HAS AN OVAL SHAPED BASE WITH BLACK ELECTRICAL CORD COMING OUT OF BACK. A ROUND LABEL ON FRONT OF BASE READS "DESIGN PAT. NO. 131725 BOWES SEAL FAST", WHICH IS COVERED WITH A CONVEX PIECE OF GLASS. MOUNTED TOWARDS FRONT OF BASE IS A RECTANGULAR STEEL PLATFORM. AN ARM EXTENDS UPWARD FROM BEHIND PLATFORM AND A THREADED CLAMP IS SUSPENDED OVER PLATFORM. CLAMP CAN BE TIGHTENED OR LOOSENED. CLAMP FITS INTO A ROUND STEEL PLATE WITH BLACK RUBBER ON THE UNDERSIDE. EMBOSSED ON STEEL PLATE IS "VALVE STEM PLATE BOWES". PLATE SITS ON TOP OF A CANVAS COVERED WEIGHT (FILLED WITH SAND?). ETCHED INTO UNDERSIDE OF WEIGHT IS "B256". PATCHER IS SOILED THROUGHOUT.

History: BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER NORMAN E. MILLER; USED TO PATCH BIG TRUCK TIRES. NORMAN SPENT HIS YEARS IN LETHBRIDGE IN THE FUEL HAULING BUSINESS, AS A DRIVER, BOOKEEPER, AND MANAGER OF VARIOUS BUSINESSES AROUND LETHBRIDGE. ORIGINALLY DONOR'S FAMILY CAME FROM OKLAHOMAS/NEW YORK TO THE ARROWWOOD AREA, THEY THEN MOVED TO CLARESHOLM, WHERE DONOR WAS BORN, AND MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN 1953. DONOR'S FATHER RETIRED AROUND 1993 TO TAKE CARE OF HIS AILING WIFE, DOROTHY, WHO HAD WORKED AT ELLISON MILLS AND WOOLCO, BUT WAS FORCED TO RETIRE EARLY DUE TO HEALTH PROBLEMS. NORMAN MILLER PASSED AWAY IN 1994.