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Shearing and Punching Machine.
Patent for punches and shears combined to cut metal longitudinally.
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Echols, Christaphor Columbus
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
Barrel Truck.
Patent for a new and improved barrel cart. This design "is to provide an improved barrel rack or truck which can be conveniently and easily loaded and transported from place to place; to provide means for assisting in loading the barrel or receptacle on the truck and for retaining the same on the truck against danger of accidental displacement while the truck and its contents are being moved or transported, and to provide an improved truck which shall be very simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective in operation, and cheap and inexpensive of manufacture" (lines 14-26).
Date:
July 13, 1886
Creator:
Williams, William Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating and Adjustable Rain Proof.
Patent for a new and improved rain-proof cap for chimneys. This design "is to provide a . . . rain-proof or chimney tube for receiving that part of a stove-pipe that projects above the roof, which rain-proof is so constructed that pipes can be held in the same at different inclinations. The invention consists in a rain-proof formed of a conical tube held on the roof, in the upper end of which conical tube the upper end of the stove-pipe is held. A hood is held on the upper end of the stove-pipe" (lines 8-18).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Atkin, Samuel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for "a farm-gate that may be opened and closed from either side of the gate by a person mounted on horseback, or by a person in a vehicle, without its being necessary in either instance for the person to dismount or alight" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Bradley, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History