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Bolster-Standard.
Patent for a durable, simple, and easily applied bolster-standard meant to be secured to the bolster and does not allow the bolster to split or crack.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder for Record-Books, &c.
Patent for a simple and efficient copy-holder meant for recording things. The invention feeds paper line by line, so the records are straight. The copy-holder also holds the pages of a book in place.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Powell, Phanor P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a thill-coupling that has a clip-eye, pivot-bolt, and an open-slotted thill-iron that has flat and extended jaws with a hole. The jaws are lined up with the thill-iron, meant to secure a railroad spike into place. The invention also has a flat bar-spring attached to the thill-iron.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Dibrell, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Unwinder and Mixer.
Patent for a fiber unwinder and mixer meant to pick apart, unroll, and mix lint-cotton or other similar material. It then presses the lint-cotton into cylindrical bales "in order to restore the cotton or similar material in such bales to the loose condition requisite for the usual process of manufacture in mills, and to mix different grades of cotton or like fibrous material, when desired" (lines 17-22).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for a simply, durably, and efficiently constructed plow-stock that "will admit of changes being made in an expeditious and convenient manner to facilitate the grouping of the shares or plows to be carried by the stock" (lines 11-14).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Abbott, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Kin Furnace.
Patent for a dry-kiln furnace meant to improve the "heating and hot-air circulating devices for such structures, whereby all or nearly all the heat generated is utilized, thereby effecting an economy in the use of fuel and also increasing the capacity of the kiln" (lines 15-19).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Ketcham, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Display-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History