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98
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30
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12
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10
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10
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7
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The Galveston Daily News
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26
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26
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24
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22
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20
Dallas County, Texas Probate Cases: 1846 - Early 1900s
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Cotton Planter
Patent for a machine used to plant cotton. Contains mechanisms for both plowing a furrow, planting seeds, and covering the seeds.
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Carter, Edwards D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "is to provide certain means whereby the breast and guard can be readily and quickly moved and held out of their normal position for the purpose of clearing or freeing the cotton-roll from the saws, and preventing injury to the operator by said saws" (lines 7-13).
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Rogan, David Smith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine
Patent for a sewing machine "wherein the shuttle rotates...whereby the shuttle-thread at a certain time in each revolution of the shuttle is rewound upon the bobbin, which prevents the thread from twisting or untwisting" (Lines10-17).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
McAllister, Lewis C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Squeezer.
Patent for a new and improved fruit juicer. This design consists "[i]n a fruit-squeezer having flat or nearly flat pressing-surfaces, the combination of jaws having lever-handles integral therewith, and face-plates held in transverse dovetail seats in the faces of the respective jaws by means of clamping-screws, and supported therein by central set-screws" (lines 89-95).
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Stein, Philip H. & Tams, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attaching Pumps to Oil and Other Cans.
Patent for a device for attaching pumps to oil and other cans.
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Holden, William G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplers, the object being to provide a coupler of simple and durable construction which may be coupled automatically, thus avoiding the inconvenience and danger incident to the use of the usual coupling-link or pin" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Freeman, Walter F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the link out from the end of the draw-head" (lines 7-17).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Appell, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplers, the object being to provide a coupler with a coupling-pin of improved construction, and to combine said pin with effective and durable devices for raising and lowering it. The invention consists in the combinations of parts" (lines 9-15).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Cage, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History