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Blacking Brush. (open access)

Blacking Brush.

Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design utilizes springs to move a blacking brush to and from a can of polish. This results in "evenness of wear of the bristles of the brush, economy of blacking, absence of spattering while extracting the blacking from the box, convenience in substituting the circular brush as a lid for the box in case of loss of the box-lid, and the saving of time in looking for a blacking-brush and a blacking-box separately" (lines 53-60).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Wood, Edmund Lorenzo.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar-Button. (open access)

Collar-Button.

Patent for collar-buttons made of inexpensive, non-metallic material that when applied to bands of unusual commercial form, can adapt itself to the curvature of the band without obstructing the free adjustment of a tie in connection with the folded type of collar.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Baldwin, Lawrence G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill Attachment. (open access)

Windmill Attachment.

Patent for windmill attachment to improve the construction allowing windmills to function without a sufficient amount of wind through the use of pumps and rods, including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Vaught, Silas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lever-Operated Cutting Mechanism (open access)

Lever-Operated Cutting Mechanism

Patent for lever-operated cutting mechanism, that used leavers to provide a cutting surface that is both adjustable and can be reversibly held, including illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1900
Creator: Orr, William Oliver
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Clevis. (open access)

Plow-Clevis.

Patent for a plow clevis that moves horizontally and vertically.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Digby, Martin L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Churn. (open access)

Rotary Churn.

Patent for a new and improved rotary churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting frame, the walking-beam, two crank-shafts journaled in the rear part of said frame, means for connecting the walking-beam with said shafts, a balance-wheel and dasher carried by one of said shafts, a larger balance wheel connected to the other shaft, and a churn-body secured to said balance-wheel" (lines 50-57).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Stafford, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester (open access)

Peanut-Harvester

Patent for a new kind of peanut harvesting machine that can be attached to a riding planter.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Boyd, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History