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Water Heater and Purifier.
Patent for a new and improved water heater and purifier. This design consists "[i]n the condenser, having the cover, the water-pipe and exhaust-steam pipe combined with the corrugated convex disk, whereby the water falls upon the disk and the steam enters beneath it" (lines 6-10).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the spring-actuated mechanism, of the ratchet-wheel, the spring-detent, and the lever to operate a rod" (lines 55-58).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Houston, George W. & Mulkey, Elijah F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Shades and Reflectors.
Patent for a new and improved holder for shades and reflectors. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp-burner and its reflector, of a collar having the female threads, the radial arms, correspondingly threaded at the inner end, and having eyes at the outer end, and the spring-wire or cut ring carrying the reflector on one end" (lines 56-61).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Vestal, Addison F. & Vestal, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in an "improved rein-holder formed of the bifurcated standard having clamp-screws, the stationary cylinder, and the movable cylinder, pivoted eccentrically and at a point above the stationary cylinder" (lines 67-71).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Gooch, Harold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "is to provide a seed-planter with means whereby the strain on the rotating cylinder or the scraper is equalized and reduced to a minimum, and to provide improved means for effectually covering the seed after they have been deposited" (lines 20-25).
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Savage, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History