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Spur Attachment For Stirrups
Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Poorter, Charles Louis
System:
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Spirometer
Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temporary Binder
Patent for a temporary binder.
Date:
May 12, 1903
Creator:
Buford, Paschal
System:
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Gate
Patent for a gate. This inventions is designed to be open without having to dismount from horseback or from a vehicle.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Dansboe, Harry Rasmusson
System:
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Draft Rigging for Railway Cars
Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scaffold
Patent for scaffold. This scaffold is designed to be carried on toggles allowing it to raise and lower.
Date:
November 14, 1902
Creator:
Cheves, Merrell Autry
System:
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