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Brick-Truck
Patent for improvements in trucks for carrying bricks.
Date:
April 16, 1889
Creator:
Weekes, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foot for Sand Levers.
Patent for a new and improved foot for sand levers. This design consists in "the combination of the semi-cylindrical bearing having an aperture formed in its center, a cylindrical body working in the said bearing and having a square intermediate portion adapted to fit in the same aperture, upward-extending wings made integral with the body and forming a socket, and a lever fitting in the said socket" (lines 29-37).
Date:
April 16, 1889
Creator:
Vezie, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a new and improved jetty. This design "is to provide structures . . . for protecting shores, and other similar work. . . . [The] invention consists, mainly, in the utilization of a central or interior core of clay, or clayey substance, about which is formed a retaining envelope in connection with suitable substructures, coping, walls, and tracks" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 16, 1889
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for an improved cotton press that construct a cotton-press in which the cotton will be compressed by a continuous operation as it is received from the cotton-gin (line 21-24), the device “consists of two series of rollers arranged in a circle” (line 26).
Date:
April 16, 1887
Creator:
Brady, Lewis Peter & Brady, WIlliam
System:
The Portal to Texas History