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Combined Harrow, Seed-Planter, and Cultivator
Patent for a combined harrow, seed-planter, and cultivator to increase the speed of planting and cultivating plants, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Ellis, Robert Fuller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "consists in the combination of the main bar, which is provided with a head having a suitable recess to catch over nuts, with a sliding head, which has two surfaces to act in connection with opposite ends of the head, but out of line with each other, and a spring-actuated catch, which catches in suitable ratchets made in the main bar, so as to hold the sliding head in position" (lines
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Hamrick, Jerome Miller.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Range-Finder for Rifles.
Patent for range-finder for rifles, with illustrations. The invention "is adapted for ready application to a rifle by producing a simple dovetailed groove in the stock or stock-tip, near the front end" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Ord, Edward O. C., Jr. & Kress, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Steam Car Brake
Patent for improvement in railway car brake by adding a steam actuating device attached to the locomotive.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Lauder, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History