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Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Allen, William Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator (open access)

Weed - Exterminator

Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: McBride, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Organ Protector (open access)

Organ Protector

Patent for a new and useful Oran protector "to prevent the entrance of vermin through the Knee-swell slot" ( line 9 - 11).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Oliver, Samuel R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines (open access)

Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines

Patent for a new and useful improvements in quilting frames for sewing machines. This invention is to " provide a simple, cheap, and efficient quilting frame adapted to be suspended from an overhead support and to be used in connection with an ordinary sewing machine" (line 13-17).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Heacker, Edwin W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and useful plow to "provides means whereby a shovel, plow, sweep, or other soil-working device may be connected with the beam or standard of a sulky or walking plow" ( line 7 - 10).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, Louis B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case. (open access)

Egg-Case.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Prechtel, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History