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Cultivator or Plow Standard. (open access)

Cultivator or Plow Standard.

Patent for a cultivator or plow standard that improves "the standard which connects the shoe or landslide of a sweep-shovel or bull-tongue plow with the beam, so as to render ti fixed and secure at any point of adjustment" (lines 16-19).
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: McLain, Jackson H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detaching Device for Wheel-Hubs. (open access)

Detaching Device for Wheel-Hubs.

Patent for an attachment for a wheel-hub that allows for the hub to be quickly and easily removed or engaged. The invention does not require a nut wrench; "devices for screwing and unscrewing the axle nut are carried by the wheel-hub, and are always in proper position for immediate use whenever it is necessary to detach the nut" (lines 16-19).
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: Butler, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton-chopper by using a combination of revolving disk, fender disks, a rotary shaft and cultivator-blades to construct a machine that is able to thin and cultivate cotton. Illustration is included.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Allen, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History