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Car-Door Cleat and Fastener.
Patent for "a simple and comparatively-inexpensive car-door cleat and fastener designed for use on cars for transporting cotton and other highly-inflammable merchandise and capable of effectually excluding sparks from the interior of the car and of preventing the same from entering between the edge of the door and the doorway." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1895
Creator:
Woodruff, Hawkins
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The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone.
Patent for artificial stone made of a special combination of cement that hardens and stays hard under water. It also does not conduct heat.
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Power, John H. & Power, Rufus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Bin.
Patent for a flour-bin that keeps the flour and meal separated and sifts them separately. This patent has "a novel formation of a stirrer to prevent the banking of the flour or meal in the bin, and which can be cheaply manufactured and when in use will offer a minimum amount of resistance to the contents of the bin agitated thereby" (lines 16-21). The bin is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Patton, James Monre
System:
The Portal to Texas History