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Lubricated Bullet.
Patent for lubricated lead bullets to prevent the deterioration and rusting of the inner barrel of rifled firearms, so as to maintain their accuracy. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Stewardson, Samuel Clinton
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The Portal to Texas History
Means for Opening or Closing Elevator-Doors.
Patent for a device which is mounted upon the traveling car and automatically opens and closes elevator doors. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Chester L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved turning plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Sevier, Samuel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Car-Step.
Patent for "a supplemental folding step which may be lowered into position for use when passengers are boarding or leaving a [railway] car and which may be folded back out of the way when the train is about to leave the station." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for a crate that is "readily folded into a small compass when not in use and easily unfolded and adjusted, so as to serve the purpose of an ordinary crate, and when so adjusted it will be as rigid as though of ordinary construction." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hausmann, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History