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Attachment for Sulky-Plows.
Patent for a sulky-plow that "is designed to secure an even and steady movement of the plow when turning furrows across listed ground, whereby the work is facilitated, the draft lightened, and the task of the laborer reduced" (lines 9-13).
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Mann, John Quincy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sofa or Lounge.
Patent for improvements in sofas and similar articles. The improvements have guide-strips on the ends, with blocks that fit over the guide-strips. The upper side has a double set of ratchet-teeth, and they can be used to tighten a woven-wire fabric that sits below the cushions and is held in place by the blocks.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Baucum, Samuel C. & Ball, Aaron T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar.
Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool.
Patent for a machine that dresses or reduces dental plates uniformly, and can dress dental plates to any thickness. It also can "provide permanently-exposed means for indicating the thickness to which the plate is being reduced" (lines 16-19). It will not puncture or weaken dental plates.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Barnes, Preston B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calculator.
Patent for a calculator "in which a bar having a series of numbers thereon slides in a frame or base also provided with a series of numbers" (lines 10-12). It is meant for quickly adding numbers.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Copeland, Wesley Albert & Roberts, Cyrus
System:
The Portal to Texas History