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Improvements in Running Gears for Wagons. (open access)

Improvements in Running Gears for Wagons.

Patent for improvement in running gears for wagons. Improvement for class of vehicles in which the axles revolve with the wheels.
Date: June 24, 1873
Creator: Meddows, Issac Orson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone Dress. (open access)

Millstone Dress.

Patent for a new and improved millstone-dress. This design is "to provide a millstone-dress having angular furrows intersecting the main furrows of the stone and of gradually increasing depth from their outward extremities to the point where they intersect the main furrows, said angular furrows being oppositely inclined upon the upper and lower stones to form a perfect cutting system, to discharge the grain over the face of the stone and throw it toward the skirt or edge thereof, thereby giving a good draft" (lines 30-41).
Date: June 24, 1890
Creator: Snodgrass, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History