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Gravel Conveyor and Roller
Patent for gravel, sand, or rubble conveyor to use in grading, repairing, and surfacing roads.
Date:
November 28, 1916
Creator:
Whitfield, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "is to provide a simple and improved fence which can be built with superior facility and economy, and utilize trees in range with the fence, and which will furthermore possess advantages in point of inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 12-17).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Ferguson, John Stephenson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one of the shoes shall pass through the longitudinal slot in the shoe" (lines 19-32).
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History