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Improvement in folding tables. (open access)

Improvement in folding tables.

Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Arnold, James Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Shoe-Lacings (open access)

Improvement In Shoe-Lacings

Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
Date: June 6, 1876
Creator: Lindemann, August W. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Jones, Henry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History