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Cloth Bucket or Vessel.
Patent for a cloth bucket or vessel to place milk or water in to keep it cool when ice is not available. One places the bucket in the shade and the air circulates freely through the bucket. The bucket is thick enough that it will not drip, but is breathable to allow aeration and evaporation.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Slack, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Conveyer.
Patent for pneumatic conveyer using cars, cylindrically-shaped runners, tracks, and lubrication device, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Hub.
Patent for improvements to vehicle wheel hubs, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1892
Creator:
Jones, George W. & Green, Furney F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wash Boiler
Patent for improvement on boiler washing machines so that steam is produced in conical chambers underneath a false bottom thus producing steam in less time and stirring the clothes as steam is vented upward and out of said chambers.
Date:
January 24, 1893
Creator:
Medley, John Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Motor
Patent for water motors that aides in "the transmission of the power generated by the revolution of two or more water-wheels to a single driving-shaft" (lines 8-10).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire - Fence Machine.
Patent for a new and useful wire-fence machine. This design is to "provide a simple, compact, light, and comparatively inexpensive machine adapted to be transported with facility to enable a single operator to readily distribute" (line 10 - 13).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Allen, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History