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Wire-Tightening Implement.
Patent for a wire-tightening implement meant to tightening wires in fences by making loops or twists in the wires. It has two handles forming jaws around a fulcrum, the jaws have flat faces with parallel grooves, and the jaws coming together at their ends. The grooves in the jaws form different sized loops.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
West, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for a type-writing machine that allows the spacing mechanism to operate in conjunction with other parts so that the paper-carriage releases and return the paper automatically at the end of the line. The springs automatically release and return to action with each release.
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Butler, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shipping-Case.
Patent for a shipping case that has an improved means for fastening the case. Air circulates freely and is especially designed to ship eggs, fruit, and other perishable things, although it can ship general things as well.
Date:
March 26, 1895
Creator:
Boatwright, William Thrift
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator or Plow Standard.
Patent for a cultivator or plow standard that improves "the standard which connects the shoe or landslide of a sweep-shovel or bull-tongue plow with the beam, so as to render ti fixed and secure at any point of adjustment" (lines 16-19).
Date:
August 6, 1895
Creator:
McLain, Jackson H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History