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Bee Hive Stand. (open access)

Bee Hive Stand.

Patent for a new and improved bee-hive stand. This design consists in "the combination, with a floor, of a frame provided with opposite side standards and a row of central standards, the longitudinal side bars, and a central longitudinal bar connected with said standards, tie-bars constructed to hook on said longitudinal bars, and a roof provided with hinged lids and supported by said side and central standards" (lines 85-93).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Lipp, Simpson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Spading Machine. (open access)

Rotary Spading Machine.

Patent for a new and improved rotary spading machine. This design "consists in the combination of a cylinder or drum armed with a series of spades or teeth, and mounted on a revolving shaft having a bearing or ground wheel, and a series of cleaning fingers or disks, which operate between the teeth of a second cylinder or drum which is mounted in a frame hung loosely on the main shaft of the machine, so as to rise and fall and adapt itself to the inequalities of the ground" (lines 21-30).
Date: March 8, 1881
Creator: Schuchard, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wheel Cultivator And Plow (open access)

Combined Wheel Cultivator And Plow

Patent for improvements to a combined wheel cultivator and plow, "whereby either mold-board plows or shovel-cultivators may be used upon a common frame" (lines 16-18). Includes illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Wahrmund, Charles, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History