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Well Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Arnold, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starter
Patent for an engine starter that prevents backfiring.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Everly, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Stock-Guard.
Patent for railroad stock guard "which when stopped upon will rise up from the center in front of the stock, scare them off, and prevent them from passing over it." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle - Guard
Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard to "improve the construction of cattle-guards and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will eventually prevent stock from passing from one field or in-closure into another by way of a railroad-track, roadway, or the like" (line 10-16).
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
System:
The Portal to Texas History