Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers (open access)

Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers

Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date: January 3, 1871
Creator: Booton, Sinclair
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue for Farm Implements. (open access)

Tongue for Farm Implements.

Patent for a tongue for farm implements, which regulates the draft of the implement.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Mader, August W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Skirt-Supporter. (open access)

Skirt-Supporter.

Patent for skirt supporter that consists of a waist belt, skirt supporter, and shirtwaist holder for use under the outer skirt to hold the skirt up in wet weather and keep shirtwaists in place.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Mader, August W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow, of the board, the clip detachably securing said board to the plow-beam, the hopper secured to the rear end of the board and provided with the openings and brush, the lever pivoted upon the clip, the spring, the seed-slide secured to the end of the rear arm of the lever, and the dropping-tube screwed through its wing to the plow standard" (lines 37-46).
Date: January 8, 1889
Creator: Cromer, Thomas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk Receptacle. (open access)

Desk Receptacle.

Patent for a "novel, convenient, and ornamental bottle or receptacle, adapted to contain ink, a sponge, or the like, combined with a pin-cushion and a pen-wiper" (lines 11-14), with illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1893
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.; Terrell, Edward H. & Terrell, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History