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Addressing-Machine.
Patent for an improved addressing machine, which will "paste, cut, and attach the slip simultaneously, or with one operation" (lines 26-27), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railway-Switch and Car-Replacing Mechanism.
Patent for a combined railway-switch and car-replacing mechanism that is meant to "provide certain improved devices which can be arranged to operate as a switch mechanism, or as car replacing means, which can be easily manipulated, are of a simple construction and which will effectively serve for their intended purposes" (lines 11-16). It can be easily assembled and dissembled.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasolene Tank Filler and Gage
Patent for a means of filling a gasoline tank for a motor vehicle with a sight gage for determining the level of gasoline placed in the tank.
Date:
February 27, 1917
Creator:
Boyce, Leonora
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus.
Patent for "a new and Improved Apparatus for Destroying Ants" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1875
Creator:
Grafton, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest
System:
The Portal to Texas History