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Tie Mold (open access)

Tie Mold

Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shawl Strap. (open access)

Shawl Strap.

Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).
Date: August 19, 1884
Creator: Tharp, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History