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Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "has for its object to provide a motor of the class . . . that shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, cheapness, durability, and general efficiency; and to these ends [the] invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 17-23).
Date:
September 30, 1884
Creator:
Chilton, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail Bag Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for an improved combined plow and fertilizer-distributor that better feeds the fertilizer from the hopper or container to a depositing boot, from which the material is discharged into the furrow formed by the plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 8, 1914
Creator:
Hurlbut, Milan
System:
The Portal to Texas History