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Combined Door-Bell and Mail-Receiver.
Patent for a door-bell joined with a tray or card-receiver, which is installed in a door. "When pulled out it will bring said tray outside the door to receive a card, letter, or package or any mail-matter, and when released will carry it inside the door again" (lines 11-15). The bell goes off when the tray, which has a toothed edge that engages the bell-hammer, is released.
Date:
September 22, 1896
Creator:
Key, Joseph H.; Brevard, Horace & Purifoy, William R.
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The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Swinging Gates.
Patent "to simplify and improve the construction of means for opening and closing swinging gates," (lines 10 - 12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1892
Creator:
Rhodes, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History