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Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.
Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Pyeatt, Jessie Newton.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator.
Patent for a boll-weevil exterminator comprised of a wheeled frame with a tank containing insect poison and a means to gradually distribute the poison through a field. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1914
Creator:
Griffin, Willis F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Spray
Patent for Cotton Spray. "The present invention relates to spraying devices for destroying insect life which infests plants. The device is primarily intended for spraying cotton plants, and is so constructed and arranged as to travel over the plants, and to spray the said plants from opposite sides" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 27, 1912
Creator:
Walker, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark and Dust Arrester for Cars
Patent for prevention of sparks and dust from entering vehicles.
Date:
September 4, 1900
Creator:
Stanley, May
System:
The Portal to Texas History