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Combination Show-Case.
Patent for new and useful improvements in combination show cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Sanger, Phillip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed cotton: "For uploading cotton from wagons and for transferring it from place to place, for example, from wagon to storehouse or from the wagon or the storehouse to the gin house when it is to be delivered to gins or gin feeders, pneumatic apparatus has advantages over other devices" (lines 12-18).
Date:
April 17, 1894
Creator:
Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller-Wheel.
Patent for a propeller-wheel for steam and other vessels. This invention is meant "to provide a propeller by which a maximum speed may be obtained without a proportionate increase in toe motive power employed" (lines 15-18). It doesn't have a lateral resistance of water and does not diffuse water in all directions.
Date:
December 17, 1895
Creator:
Parker, Elisha J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle.
Patent for an improvement in saddle trees that secures the saddle more firmly to the horse than other saddles.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Tenison, Albert P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for the operating gear in planters. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1897
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for improvements to a cotton harvester that uses finger-pickers to harvest cotton into a bag or box with illustrations. The changes are intended to make the harvester more durable, less costly, and operable by non-skilled workers.
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Loonie, Patrick J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History