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BED-BOTTOM
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in bed bottoms". The bed bottom fits any bedstead and it is cheap, portable, and durable.
Date:
July 13, 1880
Creator:
Pafford, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canvas adapted to slide in the frame" (lines 9-21).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cuero Star. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 17, 1880
Weekly newspaper from Cuero, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 17, 1880
Creator:
Tucker, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding Saddle.
Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "provide[s] a flexible or elastic seat, consisting of a number of thicknesses of tanned sheepskin, with the wool on, between the saddle-tree covering and the ordinary external rawhide or other covering, thus preventing the said covering from resting on the inner edges of the saddle-tree side bars, which forms a comfortable and easy saddle; and, in addition to this, [the] invention relates to the opening rearwardly and laterally in the saddle-tree for attaching the girth-rigging thereto, in place of the ordinary rings" (lines 30-41).
Date:
July 6, 1886
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ruffling Attachment for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved ruffling attachment for sewing machines. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the flat main plate having the loop, of the ruffling-plate having its side at one end turned over parallel with its main portion, and provided with a spring tongue or plate that is inserted in the loop" (lines 59-63).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Lauraine, Eugene G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History