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Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Allen, William Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Churn and Ice Cream Freezer (open access)

Combined Churn and Ice Cream Freezer

Patent for a combined churn and ice cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Jones, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Device. (open access)

Cotton-Handling Device.

Patent for "an apparatus for elevating and distributing cotton from wagons or other receptacles and feeding the same to cotton-gins or storage-bins." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1891
Creator: Moffitt, William E.; Williams, James L. & Bennett, Levi W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Methodology for Nanoscale Technology Based Mixed-Signal System Design (open access)

Methodology for Nanoscale Technology Based Mixed-Signal System Design

Patent relating to nanoscale technology based mixed-signal system design.
Date: June 27, 2013
Creator: Mohanty, Saraju P. & Kougianos, Elias
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wire Tightener. (open access)

Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Austin, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date: October 9, 1894
Creator: Austin, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed planter. (open access)

Seed planter.

Patent for the improvement of seed planters, according to the inventor, "by providing the hopper of the same with regulating devices, whereby the seed may be planted in desired quantities and at desired intervals".
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Ratliff, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History