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Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for an more efficiently designed cotton chopper.
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Brown, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for improvements in swinging gates which “can be opened in either direction and capable of being operated at a distance from either side of it by a person on horseback or in a vehicle.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 15, 1902
Creator:
Plaster, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammock or Swing.
Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design consists in "the combination of a suspended canopy, consisting of a hoop provided with screw-eyes and having a textile covering and a mosquito-netting secured thereto and depending therefrom, with a basket consisting of a hoop, a suitably-constructed bottom, a cushion, and a guard . . . and supporting-ropes secured at their lower portions to the basket and to the guard, and having snap-hooks at their upper ends adapted to engage the screw-eyes in the hoop of the canopy" (lines 5-15).
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
Broderick, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Park, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History