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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an adjustable wire stretcher.
Date:
January 4, 1921
Creator:
Tompkins, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c
Patent for a knee pad for cotton pickers with a pneumatic cushion.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Herron, William Patrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "relates to machines for cutting corn and cotton stalks; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same" (lines 18-21).
Date:
October 4, 1881
Creator:
Rhea, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Step.
Patent for improvements in extension-steps which attach to vehicles and "do away with the boxes used to assist in getting up to the first or lower step" (lines 10-12). When not in use, the steps can be swiveled up. They are raised, lowered, and locked into position with a mechanism operated using a handle.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Support for Writers.
Patent for "a support especially adapted for the use of those learning to write, and by which the hand may be accustomed to the proper position for writing from the beginning of the study." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Yarbrough, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History