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Combined Clothes Washer and Churn. (open access)

Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.

Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date: March 6, 1883
Creator: Bridges, Mary Jane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Cultivator (open access)

Motor-Cultivator

Patent for an improvement to motor cultivators. It provides the operator a way to manually adjust the depth of the furrow and cultivator blade, including illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Runge, Friedrich Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing attachment for cotton presses. (open access)

Packing attachment for cotton presses.

Patent for improvement of packing attachment for cotton presses.
Date: October 6, 1885
Creator: Bradford, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cable Clamp. (open access)

Drill-Cable Clamp.

Patent for Drill-Cable Clamp is for a device that clamps the rope to which the drill connects. The rope can be rotated, while connected to both the drill and the drilling machine securely.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Clayton, Robert Fentress
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Locking, Nut. (open access)

Self-Locking, Nut.

Patent for a "simple and efficient device" for "securely holding a nut upon a bolt" (lines 76-77).
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Galliher, Lawrence M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector. (open access)

Plant-Protector.

Patent for improvements in plant-protection by providing a foraminous hood for young plants. This particular plant-protector is protect melon type and vegetable of similar qualities against worms, grubs, lice and other pests.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Cook, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for a new improved planter. "It consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (p. 1; lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1885
Creator: Morris, John Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History