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Match Scratcher (open access)

Match Scratcher

Patent for a match scratcher. This invention consists of an igniting strip to allow ready striking of matches. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Havecotte, John H. & Stanley, May
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter and Fertilizer Dropper (open access)

Planter and Fertilizer Dropper

Patent for planter and fertilizer dropper. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Rollins, Edgar C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator (open access)

Refrigerator

Patent for a refrigerator. This design is for use with blocks of ice. Illustrations included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Mitchel, Elias Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture Polish (open access)

Furniture Polish

Patent for a furniture polish, in liquid compound form, for use in cleaning and polishing furniture, vehicles, woodwork, and other similarly coated or enameled surfaces.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: James, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows. This improvements are to " render the plow right and strong and easy-running, reducing the effort required by the plowman to handle the plow to a minimum, and to render the handles and beam and plow-plate readily adjustable as regards pitch and height (line 10 - 16).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Kirkpatrick, James M. & Files, Jerry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incandescent Lamp (open access)

Incandescent Lamp

Patent for incandescent lamp. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Crutchfield, Charles H. & Deshong, Andrew W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "consists in a slotted plate provided at one end with a buffer for arresting the door, and having in the walls of the longitudinal slot series of diagonal slots, in combination with a counterweighted latch provided with trunnions received in the diagonal slots" (lines 21-27).
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Hinkle, William A. & Jeffery, Franklin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow. (open access)

Disk Plow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Wolcott, Oliver P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck Yoke or Whiffletree Coupling (open access)

Neck Yoke or Whiffletree Coupling

Patent for construction tool capable of pulling weights of object.
Date: December 28, 1912
Creator: Purcell, Oren M.
System: The Portal to Texas History