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Gate-Latch. (open access)

Gate-Latch.

Patent for a improved gate latch that has "a permanent member carried structure and a swingable member carried structure, which co-act, and are operated by spring action for locking the swingable members against swinging movement".
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Ramirez, Simon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle. (open access)

Vehicle.

Patent for a wheel-vehicle structure used on farm, road, country or the city, including illustrations. Vehicle with pivot axles that eliminate the jerking and shaking caused by common vehicles.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Drew, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher. (open access)

Horse-Detacher.

Patent for an improved horse-detacher, including illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Vincent, William O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Intrenching-Tool. (open access)

Intrenching-Tool.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in intrenching tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Hoffmann, Arnold G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for "a wrench adapted to engage the nut of the wheel hub, so that on turning the wheel the nut will unscrew from the threaded end of the axle." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Stambaugh, Julius Locke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Billiard Table Leveler. (open access)

Billiard Table Leveler.

Patent for a new and improved billiard-table leveler. This design consists in "the vertical case having the closed bottom, the open upper end, and provided with the removable plate, the vertical guide-rods extending through openings in the plate, the follower in the upper end of the case and having openings to receive the guide-rods, and provided with an interiorly-threaded opening, the vertical shaft having its lower end stepped in the bottom of the case and journaled in the plate, the said shaft having the miter-pinion and the threaded upper end working in the threaded opening of the follower" (lines 58-70).
Date: May 11, 1886
Creator: Himes, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Wheel. (open access)

Carriage Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved carriage wheel. This design "consists in so constructing a carriage-wheel that the members thereof may be made interchangeable, and the whole may be made in a factory and shipped thence 'knocked down,' to be assembled and put together at any point to which the same may be shipped, not requiring, as is usual, the aid of a blacksmith or other skilled laborer" (lines 8-15).
Date: November 8, 1881
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plates for Holding Screw-Cutting Dies. (open access)

Improvement in Plates for Holding Screw-Cutting Dies.

Patent for plates to hold screw-cutting dies, which allows the threads to be more accurately placed. Dies are also able to work for left handed dies as well as right handed dies.
Date: October 14, 1879
Creator: Geiser, Johan G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Padlocks. (open access)

Improvement In Padlocks.

Patent for improvements to Padlocks which can be opened with a key in conjunction with maneuvering the tumblers or locking-bolt.
Date: August 14, 1878
Creator: Jacobs, Morris
System: The Portal to Texas History