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Attachment for Wheel-Cultivators
Patent for a new and useful improvement in attachments for wheel cultivators, including description and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Brown, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "the staff-head having the slot . . . and opposite inside grooves, in combination with a dasher-stem head conforming to the recesses in the head and carrying a spring in an upper cavity thereof, a plunger having its toe resting upon said spring, and operative mechanism" (lines 77-83).
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
Catchings, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron
Patent for improvements to andiron or "fire-dogs".
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Steele, Oliver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planting Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved corn-planting attachment for plows. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such an attachment, which may be secured to the rear end of the beam of a common breaking-plow, having a wheel running in the furrow operating the dropping mechanism" (lines 22-28).
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Aten, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen.
Patent for a new and improved insect screen. This design consists in "the combination, with the wire frame and the base to which the ends of the wires of said frame are connected, of the auxiliary strands bracing the arch-wire of said frame, and the book-holder having the upper end of its supporting-wires bent and connected to the longitudinal wire of said frame" (lines 18-24).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Rice, Robert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder or Grain-Planter.
Patent for "improvements in seeders or grain-planters, having reference more particularly to that class of inventions capable of planting corn, peas, wheat, oats, and cotton" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1887
Creator:
Robinson, Eustis P. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History