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Combination Implement for Sealing Packages and Railroad Cars. (open access)

Combination Implement for Sealing Packages and Railroad Cars.

Patent for a new and improved implement for the sealing of railroad cars and packages. This design "consists of an implement combining all the tools necessary for rapidly and easily sealing railroad-cars and packages with the ordinary wire or tin seals, and of the [novel] particular construction" (lines 9-13).
Date: January 2, 1883
Creator: Miller, Theodore E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cot. (open access)

Cot.

Patent for a new and improved cot. This design is for a cot that, "[w]hen it is desired to pack the cot for transportation the flexible bottom is first removed from the frame, after which the latter is taken apart and the pieces thereof placed compactly together in a bundle with the flexible bottom. In this cot there are no pivot-joints to become worn or get out of order, and should any of the separable pieces become broken or damaged they can be readily replaced" (lines 47-56).
Date: January 23, 1883
Creator: Martial, Antoine William
System: The Portal to Texas History