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Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for an improved farm gate that pivots in its center and can be swung in either direction. It is operated by a pull chord and levers. The pull chords are set on posts on either side of the gate, each side having two chords in order to open the gate in either direction. The posts also act as a brace to stop the gate from swinging further.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Mulcahy, Richard T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sand-Band for Vehicles. (open access)

Sand-Band for Vehicles.

Patent for an inexpensive improved sand band for vehicle hubs that can be easily installed.
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Darby, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed-Bottom. (open access)

Spring Bed-Bottom.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable spring bet bottom that consists of a frame, slats, separate inverted cone-shaped coiled springs that sit on the slats and that loop together at the tops, clamps that hold the springs onto the slats, and hooks that hold the upper coils to the frame.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Crowder, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flood-Gate. (open access)

Flood-Gate.

Patent for a flood-gate meant for use in mill-dams, races, and levees. Its intended use is to allow water to come to a certain height, and automatically release water once it gets past that point. When the water returns to a reasonable height, the gate automatically closes.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Dean, Asa
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preparing Fruit for Canning and Preserving. (open access)

Preparing Fruit for Canning and Preserving.

Patent for a process of skin removal from various fruits that leaves the peeled fruit in "good condition" (line 12) for making preserves or for use in other preparations.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: McDermett, Ida L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing. (open access)

Railroad-Crossing.

Patent for a simple and durable railroad-crossing that "consists of a center piece, and two side pieces for clamping the main track rails in place" (lines 12-14). It can be easily set up and connected with the rails.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Keenan, Michael J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire. (open access)

Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire.

Patent for a tool that tightens wires and takes up slack on wire fences. It also splices and joins wires together. The invention has "a novel construction whereby a loop is formed in the strand of wire which is to be tightened and the parts of such wire adjacent to the loop and brought into parallelism so that they may be intertwisted accurately and neatly" (lines 20-25). It also forms loops of different sizes in the wire.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G. & Embrey, Leonard B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator "in which all of the plow shanks will be adjustable to or from the center line of the frame in order that the cultivator may be adapted for working different kinds of plants" (lines 19-23). It is laterally adjustable, and the tongue is vertically adjustable.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Mattijetz, Andreas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for an inexpensive and simply constructed corn and cotton planter that has an "improved mechanism for transmitting motion from the drive-wheel to the seed-disk; to so construct said mechanism as to operate only when the planter is being advanced and to remain inoperative when being drawn backward; to provide for a change of speed for the seed-disk so as to plant close together or far apart as may be desired; and to provide a new and improved hood or protector for the gear connection between the drive-wheel and the power-transmitting mechanism, which hood may be readily cast and will preserve the mechanism at this point against the deleterious actions of dust and other gritty matter that would otherwise find its way therein" (lines 11-26).
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
System: The Portal to Texas History