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Jasper County

Map of Jasper County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1895
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Carrier. (open access)

Log-Carrier.

Patent for a log-carrier that improves on a patent previously granted to Robert E. Terry (No. 481,314). The adjusting lever is made to be more powerful so the log chains can be moved with less friction and will not slip from their guides. Ratchets and pawls prevent the tongue from moving.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Carroll, Joseph Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ox-Yoke Key. (open access)

Ox-Yoke Key.

Patent for an ox-yoke key that holds the bows in place. The key makes movement easy because of a swinging plate. "By this arrangement the plate may be swung so as to move the key away from the bow, and so as to move it toward the same; and in operation of advancing and retracting the key, the plate swings in the manner described abode" (lines 20-25).
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Johnson, Benjamin W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History