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Brace for Furniture. (open access)

Brace for Furniture.

Patent for an improved furniture brace that uses wire "for connecting parts of beds, tables and chairs for the purpose of strengthening [...] in which the tightening means lies substantially in the plane of the tightening wires so that there is no twisting action on the tightening means" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Wittliff, Theodore H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Carbureters. (open access)

Attachment for Carbureters.

Patent for improvement in attachments for carbureters that uses a hydro-carbon engine to induce a vertical whirl.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Loose, Robert D.
System: The Portal to Texas History