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Coin Controlled Electrical Weighing Scale.
Patent for a new and improved coin-operated electrical scale. This design "relates to improvements in electrical weighing-scales that may be tripped by electricity; and the main object of [the] invention is to so arrange the electric circuit that it may be closed for tripping the indicator by inserting within the machine a coin or like-shaped metallic piece" (lines 16-22).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Smith, William R.
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The Portal to Texas History
Cane-Stripper.
Patent for a wooden sugarcane stripper with two cutting blades that "reduces to a minimum the liability of damage being done to the stalks during the stripping operation" (p. 2, lines 21-24), including illustrations.
Date:
November 30, 1920
Creator:
Knowlton, Ida E.
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The Portal to Texas History