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Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.
Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Smitham, Nicholas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton
Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Kelly, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Wilkinson, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Writing Instrument.
Patent for a writing instrument for writing on stacks of carbon paper, which need heavy pressure to show on all the pages.
Date:
November 2, 1909
Creator:
Dyches, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Hinton, Horace F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco Stemming Machine
Patent for the improvement of tobacco-stemming machines by providing "an arrangement for opening the leaves prior to being fed to the cutters" (lines 14-15).
Date:
November 11, 1902
Creator:
Bush, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grapple.
Patent for a grapple, a device "for handling brick - that is, for moving brick from one point to another" (lines 13-14).
Date:
November 6, 1900
Creator:
Brownfield, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw
Patent for a drag saw. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Thompson, Everett Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for "attachments for planters, cultivators and the like" (lines 8-10) "whereby the implement will be permitted to yield to uneven ground" (lines 11-12).
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Waters, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History