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Gate Closer
Patent for a gate closer. This invention uses a counter weight to automatically closes a gate or door. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Rhodes, Efford B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Door-Securers.
Patent for a new and improved safety-locks for doors which consists of only three parts: a screw with sharp points, a nut, and a guard pivoted to the nut. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1879
Creator:
Hine, Miller J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for "a compound or composition for the extermination of ants, moles, salamanders, prairie-dogs, large rats, &c." (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 21, 1888
Creator:
Simpson, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Chopper
Patent for an improvement in corn and cotton stalk-choppers, allowing for the stalks to be turned under by the plow and prevent their interference with the machine.
Date:
May 21, 1872
Creator:
Richards, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters
Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, which allows for adjusting to plant less or more seeds as desired.
Date:
May 21, 1872
Creator:
Richards, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History