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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire stretchers: "provide a wire stretcher of simple, durable, and economic construction, capable of being applied to a wire and supported upon s post or maintained in working position between posts or uprights" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Brannon, Walter Zebulin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fence-Post Sockets.
Patent for improvement in fencing where posts are held more securely with galvanized plates, sockets, and wires.
Date:
September 9, 1873
Creator:
Durant, George W. & Durant, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in cultivators by using adjustable screw-rods from the ends of short laterally-vibrating levers to suspend the cultivator-beams in the front; the levers are arranged to be operated by an attendant’s feet. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 28, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Pest-Poisoner
Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Howard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History