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Fountain-Pen. (open access)

Fountain-Pen.

Patent for a new and improved fountain pen that provides a “novel means for manipulating the compressible reservoir” (lines 13-14) of the pen and of which the contents "may readily be fed manually, to the ink-applying portion of the pen" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin Ruthven
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder (open access)

Clothes-Pounder

Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustrations included.
Date: October 5, 1909
Creator: Van Landingham, Lewis E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Soot Arrester for Stacks (open access)

Smoke and Soot Arrester for Stacks

Patent for a smoke and soot arrester that may be used to contain products of combustion from smoke stacks or chimneys. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-holder. (open access)

Rein-holder.

Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Campbell, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements to double plows, so that they are pivotally connected and can move independently of the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1891
Creator: Payne, Hiram Ezkiel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n combination with the base, the frame having the cross-bars, churn provided with a dasher-shaft, a second shaft passing through cross-bars and connected with the dasher-shaft, pinions . . . secured to the shaft and adapted to rest upon the cross-bars . . . a[nother] shaft journaled in [one of] the cross-bar[s], and a mutilated gear engaging the pinions" (lines 16-24).
Date: June 5, 1888
Creator: Crawford, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Scraper (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Scraper

Patent for new "construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-11) to improve cotton choppers and scrapers, with illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Rouse, Samuel James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the radial arms of the wheel-frame and the vertical pivot-posts thereon, the sails or fans pivoted to said posts, the pivoted detents, and the pivoted governing-levers to which said detents are connected, said levers carrying adjustable weights" (lines 16-23).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Witherspoon, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History