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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard that improves on patents previously granted to the inventor (No. 516,307 and No. 501,785). The improvements include "the provision of a counter balance or lever with a weight slidingly thereon, which can be adjusted so as to better regulate the platform (lines 25-28) and perforated guards, which will not get as damaged by the wind as non-perforated guards. The patent also includes springs under the platform instead of springs under the sills.
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

More Piney Woods Treasures

Description: Text for a sidebar about noteworthy places in the Piney Woods region of East Texas that was published in the September 2003 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2003-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sulky Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sulky-plow. This design consists, "with the frame of the carriage and the axle of the furrow-wheel, of an inclined perforated portion or device, the washers or collar-like devices arranged on either side of the part and penetrated by the axle of the wheel, and means for clamping together rigidly the combined parts" (lines 70-76).
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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