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Combined Plow and Planter.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Franklin, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon
Patent for "relates to the construction of wagon beds or bodies; and it has for'its object to provide a simple means for bracing such beds-or bodies to prevent the sides thereof from spreading under a load, and whereby the heavy standards usually employed may be dispensed with" (lines 23-30).
Date:
March 18, 1890
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for improvements in tire tighteners by using wedges with longitudinal ridges, longitudinal tapering ridges or webs, together “with a wheel-rim, clamps arranged in pairs upon each side of the felly-joint, the clamps consisting of plates have a fluted or corrugated inner surface …., the extension of the registering plates being connected by transverse bolts.” (lines 37-45) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 31, 1891
Creator:
Reeves, Alexander Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling.
Patent for a hose-coupling that is "simple and economic in construction and which shall be capable of rapid and ready action without use of any tool for manipulating the same" (lines 14-17).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Goodspeed, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History