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Improvement in Hair-Triggers (open access)

Improvement in Hair-Triggers

Patent for a hair-trigger for firearms.
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Schenck, F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hair-Triggers. (open access)

Improvement in Hair-Triggers.

Patent for improvement in fire-arms by arranging a hair-trigger on to a fire-arm that have a guard and a trigger without alternation of the interior mechanism of the gun-lock; it is not necessary for the application of a fly in the hammer to prevent the catching of the trigger in the rest-notch of the hammer. (Lines 11-19) Illustration is included.
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Schenck, F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 24, 1869 (open access)

The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 24, 1869

Newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Maltby, H. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Die Union. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 113, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 24, 1869 (open access)

Die Union. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 113, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 24, 1869

Tri-weekly German-language newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Flake, Ferdinand
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History