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Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the hoe, of a standard, fulcrumed to a hinged adjustable bar, and connected by mechanism[s] with the ground-wheel" (lines 77-80).
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Laura Ann & Graham, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Spring (D.C. Patent).
Patent for bed spring.
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
Littell, J. Reed
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper File.
Patent for a new and improved paper file. This design "provide[s] a simple, cheap, and effective wire clamp for . . . holding bills, papers, cards, and the like . . . that can be secured to a table, desk, wall, or other object, thereby dispensing with the strips of wood or other material to which the wire clamps are usually connected" (lines 18-29).
Date:
September 5, 1882
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved hand sawing-machine. This design "relates to improvements in hand sawing-machines in which a vertically-movable frame-work supporting the driving mechanism operates in conjunction with a horizontally-reciprocating cross-head for carrying the saw; and the object of [the] improvements is to provide a portable hand-power machine for the rapid cutting of stove-wood, and for other light sawing" (lines 8-16).
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
York, Martin V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sign.
Patent for a new and improved sign. This design consists in "the combination of a frame or bed and a transparent plate set in the same, having the letter-color or gilt on its inner face, and a filling applied upon its front face to form the margins of the letter . . . [and] the wooden body, provided with a recess, in its front face, of the strip of glass gilded, silvered, or painted on its back face and inlaid in said recess, and a filling on its front face to form the margins of the letters . . . [and] the separate pieces or panes of glass, one for each letter of the sign" (lines 84-101).
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
Munn, Frank E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History