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Improvement in Animal-Traps (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps

Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Subsoil Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Subsoil Attachment for Plows.

Patent for a subsoil attachment for plows in which the attachment can be “held fixedly relative to the plow so as to be maintained constantly at the desired depth without pushing upwardly under the resistance offered by the soil. This attachment can also be adjusted easily to plow to the desired depths.” (P. 1, lines 15-22.) Illustration is included.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Mathis, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Signal (open access)

Automobile Signal

Patent for Automobile Signal
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: James, Daniel V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Device for Hay-Presses. (open access)

Feeding Device for Hay-Presses.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Feeding Devices for Hay-Presses" (lines 5-6), including specifications and illustrations.
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Sandy, Sam S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier. (open access)

Drier.

Patent for a new and improved drier. This design "relates to improvements in driers for lumber . . . and the objects of [the] improvement are to provide, with stackless arches having a closed top and openings in the side, another arch or arches alongside of the first with openings in its sides, and pendent deflecting-plates to arrest all sparks that may issue from a furnace also provided with deflecting walls or plates, and thereby secure perfect safety in the use of that class of driers" (lines 9-23).
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: McPherson, Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History