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Cotton Gin. (open access)

Cotton Gin.

Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "has for its object to so attach the front and rollers to the device that the rollers may be cleaned and freed from trash, burrs, and seed, when necessary, without stopping the gin" (lines 14-18).
Date: April 11, 1882
Creator: Boatwright, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy. (open access)

Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy.

Patent for a new and improved faucet with a toy attachment. This design "relates to faucets for soda-fountains and the like; and it consists in providing the same with a jointed figure or automaton adapted to be operated by the escaping fluid" (lines 21-25).
Date: April 25, 1882
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide (open access)

Insecticide

Patent for a compound for destroying weevils, rats and mice.
Date: July 11, 1882
Creator: Wheeler, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper. (open access)

Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper.

Patent for a novel bottle stopper. This design "consists in certain improvements in [bottle stoppers] whereby the outpouring fluid may be utilized to set in motion an automaton attached to said stopper" (lines 18-21).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System: The Portal to Texas History