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Key-Ring Holder. (open access)

Key-Ring Holder.

Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Kropp, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tea-Chest. (open access)

Tea-Chest.

Patent for "tea-chests and other receptacles of a light nature in which the articles are shipped and retailed in and from the original packages," (lines 8-11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1891
Creator: Buford, Paschal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shirt Bosom. (open access)

Shirt Bosom.

Patent for a new and improved shirt bosom. This design "is to provide an improved 'dickey' adapted to be worn either with or without an ordinary shirt" (lines 9-11). It consists in a "dickey, the same comprising a bosom divided down its center, a box-plait at the inner edge of each section of the divided bosom, said plaits registering with each other and the two faces of the bosom being finished alike, cross-straps at the lower ends of the sections, a tab depending from each strap, a flap between said tabs, and a collar-band connected to the upper ends of both sections" (lines 66-75).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree Attachment (open access)

Doubletree Attachment

Patent for a doubletree attachments. Illustration included.
Date: August 16, 1910
Creator: Ball, William Rossem
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "ha[s] for its object the provision of strong and reliable means whereby any desired number of plow-shovels may be used and the distance between the said plows regulated or adjusted at will by very simple means. A further object is to provide means to enable all the plows, excepting two, to be removed, to adapt the device to be used to lay off rows at a predetermined distance apart to prepare for sowing" (lines 9-19).
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: Sutton, James Macaulay
System: The Portal to Texas History