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Deep Well Pump.
Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Clark, Alexander Evans
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Taylor Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1887
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm and Garden Implement.
Patent for a new and improved tool rack. This design "consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, whereby the device may hold implements of various kinds—such as the hoe, rake, a fork, shovel-blade, a trowel, and similar hand-tools—by simply detaching one tool from the holder and inserting another" (lines 12-18).
Date:
April 19, 1887
Creator:
Hewitt, Ditus Pinson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle Skein.
Patent for a new and improved axle skein. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the axle-spindle having a collar at its inner end and provided with a longitudinal groove at its outer end, and the bushing having a rib which engages the groove and a projection which engages the notch in the collar" (lines 29-35).
Date:
September 20, 1887
Creator:
Nott, Henry William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History