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Improved Double Pincers. (open access)

Improved Double Pincers.

Patent for the improvement of double pincers by way of "double jaws, by which both sides of the shanks of a boot of shoe can be clamped and held at the same time."
Date: March 29, 1870
Creator: Maund, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Separating the Seed from Fruit-Pulp (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Separating the Seed from Fruit-Pulp

Patent for a simple machine "for separating the seed from the pulp of the Bois-de-Arc or Osage orange and other apples where the seed is required to be separated uninjured for planing and other purposes" (line 26-29).
Date: March 29, 1870
Creator: Mayo, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat

Patent for the design of a facility to slaughter, pack, preserve, and cure meat.
Date: June 29, 1869
Creator: Fulton, G. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for a new cultivator in the form of a wheel, which includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: September 29, 1868
Creator: Stroud, J. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels. (open access)

Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.

Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
Date: May 29, 1866
Creator: Forshey, Caleb G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Millstones. (open access)

Hanging Millstones.

Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
Date: May 29, 1860
Creator: Dance, G. P.
System: The Portal to Texas History