Overshot Fishing-Tool (open access)

Overshot Fishing-Tool

Patent for improvements to overshot fishing tools, particularly for the use of removing, fishing out, "tools, parts of tools and other articles from" bored or drilled wells (lines 20-21). These improvements are designed to be manufactured cheaply.
Date: July 17, 1919
Creator: Kliewer, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dust Box. (open access)

Dust Box.

Patent for a new and improved dust-box. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a floor having an aperture cut into it and provided with a door flush with the surface of the floor, of a dust-box having a square bottom and diverging sides formed with outwardly-projecting flanges re-enforced upon their under sides by plates or bars and having strips secured to the inner sides, having their upper ends bent inward" (lines 76-83).
Date: August 17, 1886
Creator: Ethridge, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History