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Copy Holder.
Patent for a new and improved paper holder. This design is "to provide an indicator for use in connection with the copy-holder, so that when the copyist is interrupted . . . the indicator may be made to point out the exact place at which [she or] he left off" (lines 12-17). It consists, "with the copy-holding frame and the cross-bar mounted thereon, of an indicator formed of spring metal, said indicator having a slideway to fit the cross-bar, and a laterally-extending hand" (lines 125-130).
Date:
November 18, 1890
Creator:
Seymour, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Umbrella
Patent for "a folding umbrella which may be quickly reduced in size, so that it may be conveniently inserted in a valise, satchel, or other receptacle, and also to construct the umbrella in such a manner that it may be held rigidly in either an open or closed position" (lines 9-15)
Date:
July 18, 1892
Creator:
Seymour, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History