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Supplemental Bed and Guide Attachment (open access)

Supplemental Bed and Guide Attachment

Patent for a supplemental bed and guide attachment. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Heckel, Albert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy. (open access)

Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy.

Patent for a simple and durable machine for cutting stick-candy that is "capable of traveling over a table or other support upon which stick candy in given lengths may be laid, and to so travel over the table that the lengthy sticks of candy will be made to slide over the bed of the machine, under a knife or its equivalent; and a further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the knife may be manipulated at predetermined points in the travel of the machine to cut the lengthy sticks into shorter predetermined lengths" (lines 11-21).
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Allardyce, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History