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Gate
Patent for invention of certain new and useful Improvements in Gates. Relates to the improvements in automatic gates, Including annexed drawing which fully illustrate the invetion (5-10).
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Boyd, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wick Trimmer.
Patent for a new and improved wick trimmer. This design "is to provide a lamp-wick trimmer with adjustable guides that will afford means to retain the implement in correct position for use on lamp-wick tubes of different sizes, and furthermore to furnish the wick-trimmer with blades that will shear the wick from each side edge toward the center simultaneously" (lines 7-14).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Andrews, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish and Game Trap.
Patent for a design for improvements of fish and game traps, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Bolling, Allen G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads, Gates, &c.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "the posts having the hooks or eyes, the head-board, foot-board, and rails, also provided with hooks or eyes, the swivel, the wires, each having one end secured to one of the corner hooks or eyes, passed through the eye-bolt and screw-bolt, respectively" (lines 97-102). Said wires are further "given a half-turn on themselves, and their other ends secured to the opposite corner hooks, and the [other] wire having one end secured to one of the center hooks or eyes and woven in and out over the hooks or eyes" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Lenix, John M. & Swann, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap
Patent for an insect trap.
Date:
March 31, 1903
Creator:
Estep, Samuel Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for a new and useful fertilizer distributer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Stell, Ira L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gaff
Patent for a gaff. This invention is for catching small animals. Illustration included.
Date:
January 31, 1911
Creator:
Werline, William Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Construction for Railway Cars
Patent for a door to box cars, that slides across the car in the same method as a sliding door, rather than opening outward.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Tierney, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History