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Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Lewis, Nathan D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Register
Patent for a new, improved registering device particularly for use in well drilling, Illustrations included.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Jones, Noah M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Tenderer
Patent for an improved meat tenderer granted to Francis W. Carter. Improvements include not tearing the meat and self-cleaning upon each rotation.
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for a new and improved surgical tool. This design consists "[i]n a surgical instrument, the combination, with the rod having the stepped head provided with grooves, of the springs, the pin, the stepped shell having offsets, the sliding sleeve, and the [other] pin" (lines 14-18).
Date:
July 14, 1885
Creator:
Poynor, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for an improved cultivator with a hoe-attachment that can be "thrown into and out of operation and employed for thinning crops simultaneous with the cultivation of the same with as much convenience and accuracy as the ordinary hand hoe and with greater expedition" (lines 13-18).
Date:
February 14, 1893
Creator:
Eriksen, Eduard A. O. & Day, William Howell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vertical Gearing for Harvesters and Binders
Patent for "improvements in vertical gearing for harvesters and binders in which the main operating-shaft is carried in a vertical position, thereby securing a larger range to elevate the machine and securing a perfect balance of the machine on the ground-wheels without extending parts of the machine to the front or rear" (lines 8-15).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer.
Patent for an improved cotton packer, which automatically restarts when it finishes a bale.
Date:
July 14, 1908
Creator:
Cass, Eral B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Raising and Lowering Mechanism for Harvesters
Patent for improvements in "a raising and lowering mechanism for harvesters, and more especially to a mechanism so arranged that it can be operated by the driver from his seat without checking the machine and while the machine is in motion" (lines 8-13).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History