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Claw-Bar.
Patent for a new and useful claw bar, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1898
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Rest for Writing Desks and Tables.
Patent for an improved book-rest for writing desks and tables used to support record-books upon desks or tables in such positions that they can be conveniently used.
Date:
October 3, 1882
Creator:
Terrill, Reuben W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Stalk Breaker Or Reducer
Patent for a stalk breaker or reducer. Illustration included.
Date:
October 10, 1905
Creator:
Johnson, Robert L. & Robertson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Box
Patent for an ice box. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Elder, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Cot.
Patent for an extension cot, which can be widened through the folding out of extra slats from the top of the cot and folds compactly for transportation.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Whitlock, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe.
Patent for a new and improved horseshoe. This design "has for its objects, first, to fasten a shoe to the hoof in such a manner that it will be firmly held in place, and in a great measure overcome the jar and concussion incident to traveling on hard roads; second, in so providing a fastening that the shoe can be secured to the hoof and removed at will without the aid of a skilled work[person] and without the use of nails" (lines 18-26).
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Robertson, Alexander W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Slide.
Patent for a new and improved plow slide. This design consists in "[a] combination tool for use with plows, consisting of a suitable bar having one end turned upward, provided with a beveled edge at the other end, a suitable cross-strap, and having openings at the sides, and bent ends adapted to the nuts used in a plow" (lines 70-75).
Date:
October 7, 1890
Creator:
Bowers, Thomas Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographer's Changing and Developing Box.
Patent for an apparatus that aids in changing and developing photographic plates. It is portable, convenient, easy to use, and safety.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Snapp, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pie Safe or Refrigerator.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design consists in "[t]he improved portable pie-safe . . . comprising the body, the guide-rods arranged vertically in the said body, near the corners thereof, and extended through the top of the same to form the loops, the bail or handle secured to said loops, the cross-bars secured to said guide-rods, and the spring-actuated shelves mounted on the said cross-bars" (lines 78-86).
Date:
October 4, 1887
Creator:
Holt, Lucy Jane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dipping-Vat.
Patent for dipping vat used on live animals to remove insect infestation with a reduced risk of injury to the animal.
Date:
October 18, 1919
Creator:
Mullins, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture.
Patent for an improved method of hanging and supporting window shades. It consists of a bracket with overlapping portions that form a sleeve, lugs that hold a roller, and end pieces to cover the end of the bar in the sleeve.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Snapp, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for a cotton elevator and distributor meant to "provide certain improvements in apparatus of this character whereby cotton may be conveniently and readily elevated from the store house or wagon, and evenly distributed to any number of gins which may be arranged successively in the same row" (lines 11-16).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Moffitt, William E. & Williams, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History