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Well Bucket Windlass.
Patent for a new and improved windlass mounting. This design "consists of an improved construction of and contrivance for mounting the windlass for a well-bucket; also, an improved contrivance for mounting the pulley of the windlass, whereby it is designed to provide simpler, cheaper, and easier working well-bucket windlasses than as heretofore constructed" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 20, 1884
Creator:
Palmer, William Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hopple for Horses.
Patent for a new and improved hopple for horses. This design "consists in the combination of two curved or bent pieces which are to go around the horses ankles . . . [each with] three links and a ring . . . allow[ing] the horse to walk slowly about, permitting [it] to graze at leisure, and enabling [it] to be easily caught when desired" (lines 14-34).
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Cottle, Julius O. & Ivie, Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Needle Threader for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved sewing-machine needle-threader. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the slide-bearing of the needle-bar, of the slide, its stop and spring, and the pivoted funnel-guide having a squared bearing to engage the spring, and a face-groove in its small end to engage the needle" (lines 73-78).
Date:
September 2, 1884
Creator:
Bellah, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History