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Automatic Service Cock.
Patent for a new and improved automatic service cock. This design "furnish[es] an improved automatic valve to form the connection between the water-main or distributing pipe and the service-pipe of a building for regulating the flow and pressure of water in such service-pipe and preventing overpressure" (lines 7-12).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Freeman, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new automatic car coupling design for train cars, including illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1887
Creator:
De May, Eugene A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hunting Lamp.
Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Brittan, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Kindler.
Patent for a composition of matter to be used for kindling fires. Ingredients, proportions of ingredients and mixing instructions are included. No illustration.
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Boyd, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Brushing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary brushing-machine. This design consists "of the circular horizontally-rotating brush, the carrying-wheels having rubber tires, the castings in which the carrying-axle and the pivot of the brush are journaled, the handle or tongue rigidly connected to the casting below the axle, and the hounds connected with the main axle on each side of the casting" (lines 65-71).
Date:
December 20, 1887
Creator:
Hawkins, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder or Grain-Planter.
Patent for "improvements in seeders or grain-planters, having reference more particularly to that class of inventions capable of planting corn, peas, wheat, oats, and cotton" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1887
Creator:
Robinson, Eustis P. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History