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Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for an improved and practical stalk cutter that cuts corn or cotton stalks at their roots "while the machine is drawn along a row of the standing stalks, and simultaneously reduce[s] the latter to small pieces which can be plowed under the soil and serve as a fertilizer, the complete reduction of the stalks to fine fragments adapting them for quick decomposition and prevent them from becoming and obstruction to a plow or harrow used to till the soil" (lines 12-20).
Date:
December 12, 1893
Creator:
Herring, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch
Patent for a new and useful improvements in gate latches.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Turley, John Breckinridge
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Door For Freight-Cars.
Patent for a new and improved grain door for freight cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1899
Creator:
Morten, Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard
Patent for a new and useful improvement in moldboards.
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Smith, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Bed Spring.
Design patent for bed spring comprised of twin spirally-coiled bodies with straight horizontal arm extending from upper coils.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Rigg, Elmer E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1891
Creator:
Williams, George M. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History