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Colter Attachment. (open access)

Colter Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved colter attachment for plows. This design "consists of a slicing colter or knife attachments to the mold-board, the object of which is to slit or cut the furrow-slice into narrow strips at the same time that it is turned up by the mold-board" (lines 7-11).
Date: December 19, 1882
Creator: Mann, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Attachment for Plows.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for plows. This design "has relation to devices for guiding or directing shovel-plows, sweeps, or cultivator-plows, and thus release in a great measure the strain upon the arms of the plow[person] consequent upon directing the plow in its proper course; and it consists in the detailed construction of a device or attachment of that class" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 29, 1882
Creator: Welborn, Wisp J. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon and Lace Show Cabinet. (open access)

Ribbon and Lace Show Cabinet.

Patent for a new and improved showcase for merchants. This design obviates "the necessity of frequent handling of the goods . . . and much time is saved in the exhibition of them, and in taking account of stock, and the cabinet aids in selling the goods, as they are exhibited by it to a greater advantage than when laid out upon the counter in boxes or kept in boxes placed in an ordinary show-case" (lines 80-87).
Date: September 19, 1882
Creator: Lowry, Lucien P.
System: The Portal to Texas History