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Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses
Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Oil Cake.
Patent for a new and improved process for manufacturing oil-cake. This design "involves but a very slight change in the process ordinarily practiced in the manufacture of oil-cake by compressing it to remove the oil and form the residue into a compact shapely mass; and it consists in providing a paper envelope in which to press the seed, instead of the cloth envelope or bag commonly provided for the purpose, whereby [the design] obtain[s] greatly improved results in the manufacture, and a new article of manufacture possessing improved qualities" (lines 9-18).
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Kay, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists "[i]n a plow, the combination, with the beam, mold-board, point, and landside-plate, of a standard consisting of a longitudinal bar, to which the beam is attached, and provided with a transverse elongated slot, two downwardly-extending arms connected together by a cross-brace and having serrations and elongated slots on their extremities, and bolts, nuts, and serrated washers for adjustably connecting the landside-plate thereto, the forward one of said arms having a seat for the plow-point" (lines 69-80).
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Wilhelm, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Farley, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History