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Carriage Top Prop.
Patent for a new and improved prop for carriage tops. This design consists in "a prop-joint for vehicles, the combination of the bow, the prop-casting having the circumferential flanges lying against the opposite sides of the bow, and the opposite extension plates lying against and secured by screws to the rear edges of the bow" (lines 70-75).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester
Patent for "spark-arresters of that type in which the sparks are extinguished by water contained in a suitable receptacle forming part of the apparatus" (lines 22-25).
Date:
October 23, 1888
Creator:
Smith, James Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate for Railway Tracks.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shaft crossing a railway-track and provided with weighted depending ends, with rollers connected eccentrically to said ends, a gate connected to said shaft, and lever and bar apparatus for operating said weighted ends from the vicinity of the rails" (lines 41-47).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
System:
The Portal to Texas History