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Feeder for Sheets of Paper, &c. (open access)

Feeder for Sheets of Paper, &c.

Patent for improvements to sheet feeders "to take the sheet which is to be red from the bottom of the pile of sheets on a reciprocating platform which moves forward, when the sheet is seized by the suction-roller, with approximately the same speed as that of the periphery of the said roller" (lines 11-17).
Date: January 14, 1890
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sham-Bolster Frame. (open access)

Sham-Bolster Frame.

Patent for "sham-bolster frames, and more particularly to that class that are lengthwise adjustable to admit of their being used with beds of any width" (lines 8-12) including illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1902
Creator: Gully, Leontina
System: The Portal to Texas History