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Protector for Stay-Bolts. (open access)

Protector for Stay-Bolts.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protectors for stay bolts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Coins, Francis. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch. (open access)

Gate Latch.

Patent for a new and improved gate latch. This design "will automatically lock the gate or door when swung closed and which will firmly hold the same, which can be readily opened by hand or otherwise" (lines 17-20). It consists in "[t]he latch consisting of the case, the two triangular catches, the transverse pivots therefor in the lower outer corners of the case, the rigid stops at the lower outer corners of the case to prevent outward swing of said catches, the inwardly and laterally extending arms at the upper inner end of said catches, and the horizontal lifting-bar normally resting on said pivots" (lines 24-32).
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Haggar, Morys
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-couplings (open access)

Improvement in Car-couplings

Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 24, 1875
Creator: Harper, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Beam for Cars. (open access)

Draft-Beam for Cars.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in draft beams for cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Saling, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History