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Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder. (open access)

Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: Bellah, William Newton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt of Levi Perryman, August 3, 1880] (open access)

[Receipt of Levi Perryman, August 3, 1880]

Received of Levi Perryman through W. A. Morris the amount of $9.00 for costs in case No. 910.
Date: August 3, 1880
Creator: Bagwill, W. H.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Railway-Switch (open access)

Railway-Switch

Patent for "automatic switches wherein the operative devices are under the control of the engineer, brake-man, or other authorized person on the train or a portion thereof" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Robberson, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Rack. (open access)

Cloth Rack.

Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, facilitates the unrolling of the cloth" (lines 21-32).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Palmer, William Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridge. (open access)

Bridge.

Patent for "improvements in bridges of that class which are used for crossing streams or country roads, and for such other purposes as a bridge may be desired" (lines 15-18), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: Mitchell, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History