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Attachment for Penholders.
Patent for a simple and effective attachment for penholders. It is "readily and easily attached to a penholder, and which is adapted to protect the fingers of the hand and prevent them from coming in contact with the pen or with the inked portion of the holder" (lines 15-19).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
McDonald, Michael Shaw
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive oil lantern made to operate in strong winds. It is "easily handled and manipulated for adjusting and fastening the several parts thereof properly in position" (lines 17-19).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holden, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch.
Patent for an electric switch meant for the Edison three-wire system. It provides "means whereby the translating devices on either side of the middle wire may be supplied with electricity to the exclusion of those on the opposite side, the return-current from said translating devices being transmitted by way of the middle wire" (lines 11-16).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Mottram, William T. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed-planter that can be used with corn, peas, and cotton. It has a changeable gear, an upright frame, an axle and supporting-wheel, a crank shaft, vertical slots, a toothed disk, and a hopper.
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Mabry, Davis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine that has a cylindrical drum with heads, slats, and openings, a door with slats and cross-pieces, a stay that is attached to the bottom of a cross-piece, and a thumb-screw that is countersunk in the stay and holds it in place.
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
King, Theophless J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pruning Implement.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient pruning implement meant to prune trees, cutting brush, and trimming hedges. It has a reciprocating knife, an improved hatchet-blade, and an extensible saw-blade "which is seated within a groove or recess in the shank of the implement and capable of being extended and held in operative position by means of a retaining-spring" (lines 16-20).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Baiey, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage.
Patent for a gage that has a beam with a saw kerf at one end, a clamp made up of a tube with parallel wings that are inserted into the kerf, a scribing point in the tube, "and means for clamping the separated ends of the beam tightly against the parallel wings of the clamp" (lines 57-59).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holmes, Elijah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that has a revolving moldboard and parts for using and cleaning the moldboard.
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Sevier, Samuel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History