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Fire and Burglar Proof Safe.
Patent for a safe "constructed as to be safe from fire and burglars, and at which the same time may be made lighter, and may be less expensive in manufacture than when made in the usual way." (para. 4). Additionally, safe is airtight and water-proof.
Date:
March 18, 1870
Creator:
Wilkins, Samuel Adams
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mill-Stone Dress.
Patent for Mill Stone Dressing- the pattern on a mill stone for the better grinding of grains into flour. The furrows and grooves of the new design allow grain to be "milled... at greater speed (and)even distribution."
Date:
March 8, 1870
Creator:
Loy, G. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Separating the Seed from Fruit-Pulp
Patent for a simple machine "for separating the seed from the pulp of the Bois-de-Arc or Osage orange and other apples where the seed is required to be separated uninjured for planing and other purposes" (line 26-29).
Date:
March 29, 1870
Creator:
Mayo, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Double Pincers.
Patent for the improvement of double pincers by way of "double jaws, by which both sides of the shanks of a boot of shoe can be clamped and held at the same time."
Date:
March 29, 1870
Creator:
Maund, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History