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Ventilating Chimney.
Patent for a new and improved ventilating chimney. This design consists in "the combination, with the smoke-flue, of the ventilating-flue, the thimble provided with outwardly-projecting lugs and inwardly-projecting apertured lugs, the plate provided with a central aperture and with a flange having notches, and the screws passed through the plate into the apertured lugs" (lines 16-23).
Date:
March 24, 1885
Creator:
Atkin, Samuel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Support.
Patent for improvements to tongue supports. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of tongue-supports and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device designed to be connected with the ends of a doubletree and with the front axle and capable of supporting the front portion of the tongue or pole in an elevated position to relieve the neck of the draft- animals of the weight of the same" (lines 10-18). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Brewer, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for a new invention to improve tire-tighteners."Provides a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device capable of firmly engaging a felly and a spoke and adapted to be readily adjusted to tighten a tire" (lines 12-15) and includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Ferriott, Charley L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for a gate. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolf E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mop-Wringer.
Patent for a mop wringer inside a bucket, which is permanently attached below the mouth of the bucket and still allows for buckets to be stacked for storage.
Date:
May 24, 1910
Creator:
Atkin, Samuel Thatcher
System:
The Portal to Texas History