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Store-Awning.
Patent for a new awning design for shops that is easily raised and lowered, including illustrations.
Date:
August 30, 1887
Creator:
Persohn, John William
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The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists "[i]n a latch, the combination of the case having at its lower end a guide ledge or flange with its bearing face arranged laterally in from the inner face of the side plate of the case, a loosely suspended ring held and movable against the said ledge or flange, and means whereby the said ring may be operated" (lines 5-11).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Charleville, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the rack-bars seated in ways recessed in the sides of the draw-head, toothed segments engaging therewith, a shaft carrying said toothed segments, and also bearing within the cavity of the draw-head a vibratory arm and a setting-lever, from which the coupling-pin is suspended, connected to said vibratory arm" (lines 24-32).
Date:
August 16, 1881
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence Earnest & Pool, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History