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Baggage Check and Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved baggage check and clasp. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a check, a direction-plate, and a clasp for securing said parts to an article of baggage" (lines 18-21).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
McLeary, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved combined seed planter and cultivator. This design "is to provide combined seed-planters and cultivators constructed in such a manner that the seed-planting mechanism can be readily detached when not required for use, and also in such a manner that each plow can be adjusted independently of the others when desired" (lines 18-24).
Date:
August 15, 1882
Creator:
Gifford, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Power.
Patent for a new and improved "horse power" (engine). This design "convert[s] the force expended by the horse—in pushing as well as in pulling—into power by the use of a solid shaft turned by the revolving platform and working inside of a sleeve-shaft, which is turned by the lever. . . . by means of which all the force expended by the horse is utilized" (lines 11-18).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
Tumey, Charles Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History