Resource Type

States

Latch. (open access)

Latch.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Lott, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for improved construction of lifting jacks with a "vertically-movable screw and capable of enabling the jack to be readily connected with an object at the base of it, whereby the range of the lifting-jack will be materially increased" (lines 14-18).
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Sanders, John Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History