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Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in hay presses "to simplify and cheapen the construction and render it more efficient in the formation of the hay into bales" (lines 16-18).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
McNeill, Charles De Witte
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Drier and Warmer.
Patent for a new and improved bed drier and warmer. This design "includes, primarily, a suitable frame of essentially elliptical form, whose ends allow of the said frame being readily slipped in between the bed and bedding or between two articles of bedding, and in connection with said frame a suitable fire-pot of portable construction" (lines 23-29).
Date:
May 14, 1889
Creator:
Fossati, Jasper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Poison Distributor
Patent for "new and useful improvements in devices for sprinkling potato-vines and the like with powder - such as paris-green" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Heaton, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power
Patent for "a machine adapted for operation from an auxiliary motor actuated by horse or animal power, and has for its object to provide a simple, efficient, and durable machine of this character by or from which a cotton-gin, agrist or saw mill, or other machinery may be driven" (lines 7-13).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
Sampson, Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nursery Chair.
Patent for a new and improved nursery chair. This design utilizes a U-shaped board with a bib attached to one side and hooks or bolts to the other "to secure a child in its seat and prevent its falling out or upsetting the chair" (lines 12-14).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
Reed, Emma T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History