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Wire Stretcher.
Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunlap, Sam H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Ring Holder.
Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date:
January 16, 1917
Creator:
Kropp, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for an improvement to reversible plows. The plow specified is capable of throwing dirt to both the left and right sides.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sramek, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a poison-distributer. This invention relates to improvements in poison-distributers, the objects in view being to provide a cheap and simple machine for an efficient manner over the entire surface of cotton-plants for the purpose of destroying the worms, and, furthermore to so construct the machine as to adapt it to readily pass through ordinary-sized gates.
Date:
January 26, 1892
Creator:
McGee, Joseph Thomas & Carr, Robert Wooten
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper.
Patent for a novel bottle stopper. This design "consists in certain improvements in [bottle stoppers] whereby the outpouring fluid may be utilized to set in motion an automaton attached to said stopper" (lines 18-21).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle-Guard
Patent for a railway cattle guard whereby the weight of the animal causes a barrier to emerge, but the barrier will be removed automatically when the weight is removed.
Date:
January 4, 1921
Creator:
Fountain, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History