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Shipping-Crate. (open access)

Shipping-Crate.

Patent for a shipping crate that stays together tightly and is easily disassembled for storage.
Date: March 14, 1911
Creator: Muehr, Richard & Muehr, Rudolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sprinkler. (open access)

Cotton Sprinkler.

Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the L-shaped nozzle having the longer arm and the shorter arm, the spring-board secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and projecting over the end thereof, and provided with a boss on its upper side, the L-shaped bracket secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and having one end projecting over the spring-valve and provided with a screw-threaded opening, and the thumb-screw inserted through and playing in said opening and having its end swiveled in the boss of the spring-valve" (lines 84-95).
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Kister, William
System: The Portal to Texas History