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Jeweler's Stone-Setting Instrument.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Jeweler's Stone Setting instruments.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Owens, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water - Tank.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in water tanks.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Stevenson, William M. & Bailey, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree-Protector.
Patent for "wire fenders or protectors for trees, [the] purpose being to provide a simple and inexpensive guard capable of being readily applied to trees of any size and having such construction that it shall be held by its own elasticity at such a distance from the trunk that rabbits or other rodents shall not be able to gnaw the bark, and the fender shall not chafe or wear the tree by continued use." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Smith, John Dawson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot.
Patent for a coffee pot that has "a movable handle whereby the same may be placed on the opposite side of the pot from the spout or to one side thereof as may be preferred" (lines 18-21). It also has an acting slide or valve that keeps the spout closed when liquids are not being poured out of it.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History