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Cotton-Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
James, Walter W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow-Scraper.
Patent for a disk plow scraper.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Shackelford, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener
Patent for new and improved construction of wire tightener allows for post in place while wire is being fastened.
Date:
July 28, 1900
Creator:
Short, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists in "the rings loosely suspended on opposite sides of a central line, levers extended past such central line, and having their inner ends engaged with the rings on the opposite sides of the center from the handle ends, and partition-plates interposed between such levers and the rings past which they are extended" (lines 79-86).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Charleville, George William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Bed.
Patent for improvements in hanging or hidden beds by having “hangers pivoted at their upper ends to fixed supports and having upwardly-opening angular hooks at their lower ends, of a bed-frame, legs pivoted to the ends of the end bars thereof, pitman-rods extending inwardly from said legs, a piece to whose ends said rods are connected, an outward projection between the ends of said piece detachably engaging and closely fitting one of said hooks, and a pivot passing through the projection and piece and into the end bar, as and for the purpose herein before set forth.” (Page 2, lines 26-36) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 24, 1891
Creator:
Buell, Will M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History