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Cork Extractor. (open access)

Cork Extractor.

Patent for a new and improved cork extractor. This design consists, "with the side-slitted cork, of the double-wire extractor having loop ends engaging the slits of the cork and extending beyond the same and the securing-wire passing through said loop ends and around the shoulder of the bottle-neck" (lines 47-52).
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Crump, William E., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Mattresses. (open access)

Method of Making Mattresses.

Patent for a new and improved method of making mattresses. This invention "consists in first disintegrating the material and simultaneously forcing the same into a suitable receptacle, fanning said material as it passes into the receptacle, and finally compressing the same . . . thereby dispensing with tacking of the bat" (lines 15-22).
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food (open access)

Stock Food

Patent for a food stock product for cows, sheep, goats and other herbivore farm animals.
Date: October 5, 1915
Creator: Walker, Thomas Bailey
System: The Portal to Texas History