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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improved wire-stretchers. The simple concept allows for the pieces to be produced inexpensively and does not require any machine work.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Moseley, Benjmine G
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Gate.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 22, 1898
Creator:
Billingsley, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thatch Roof.
Patent for a simple, cheap, and effective thatched roof for temporary storage of goods or animal pens. It has "overlapping layers of straw or like material secured or fastened in place by running wires attached to the foundation on which the said thatching or covering is arranged" (lines 15-19).
Date:
November 28, 1893
Creator:
Mandeville, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calf Weaner.
Patent for a new and improved calf weaner. This design "consist[s] of the pivoted plates provided with upper aligning recesses, horizontal aligning eyes, having opposing buttons secured to their inner ends, and goads projecting from their outer ends, aligning concavo-convex surfaces whereby the plates are guided, the registering apertures, and pin, whereby the plates are secured in a closed position" (lines 82-90).
Date:
November 29, 1887
Creator:
Rickman, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History