Rail Plate And Fastener (open access)

Rail Plate And Fastener

Patent for rail plate fastener. This invention is designed to secure rails to ties without the use of spikes. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Butterfield, Walter V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gage. (open access)

Saw-Gage.

Patent for improvements on saws by providing “cleaner-teeth and arranged to permit accurate filing of the cleaner-teeth without leaving an undesirable bur and without danger of filing the teeth too short for proper working in a cut.” (Lines 10-14) Illustration is included.
Date: June 11, 1901
Creator: Steele, Daniel Carlos
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Box (open access)

Mail-Box

Patent for "a mail-box adapted to be placed at or on the house of the person receiving the mail, so as to facilitate a house-to-house delivery" (lines 8-11).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Myer, Clayton Pittinger
System: The Portal to Texas History