Gate Latch. (open access)

Gate Latch.

Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists in "the rings loosely suspended on opposite sides of a central line, levers extended past such central line, and having their inner ends engaged with the rings on the opposite sides of the center from the handle ends, and partition-plates interposed between such levers and the rings past which they are extended" (lines 79-86).
Date: November 15, 1887
Creator: Charleville, George William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow-Scraper. (open access)

Disk Plow-Scraper.

Patent for a disk plow scraper.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Shackelford, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History