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Improvement in Coffee-Mills. (open access)

Improvement in Coffee-Mills.

Patent for an improvement to upright coffee-mills, "whereby the bearings are always maintained in their true relative positions, while the strain on the two is made automatically counteracting, and each part of the shell firmly and effectually supported by the other." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 16, 1870
Creator: Richer, Francois Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter (open access)

Seed-Planter

Patent for a seed-planter, illustrations included.
Date: October 16, 1900
Creator: Wright, William L. & Hackler, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Can. (open access)

Fruit Can.

Patent for a new and improved fruit can. This design "consists in the combination of a can having its upper edge turned inward, so as to form a flange, an L-shaped collar which is secured inside of the mouth of the can, the cap which has its lower edge turned outward, so as to form a flange, and a holding device for keeping the cap in position" (lines 13-19).
Date: September 16, 1884
Creator: Robinson, John Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History