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Reflector Holder for Lamps. (open access)

Reflector Holder for Lamps.

Patent for a new and improved reflector holder for lamps. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp and a lamp-collar, provided with a circumferential flange, of a reflector provided with a keeper, spring-clasp, springing around said collar under the flange at its lower end, and having its free ends bent angularly at their upper ends and secured in said keeper by their tension and slide" (lines 2-9).
Date: April 22, 1884
Creator: Williams, Daniel Ruggles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

Rotary Engine.

Patent for improvements to rotary engine designs.
Date: April 22, 1884
Creator: Griffin, George L.; Shoup, William A. & Cade, James Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History