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Nut and Candy Depositor (open access)

Nut and Candy Depositor

Patent for a nut and candy depositor for sending the nuts and candy into a dipping machine.
Date: August 20, 1912
Creator: Brunka, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gangway for Loading or Unloading Stock Cars. (open access)

Gangway for Loading or Unloading Stock Cars.

Patent for a new and improved gangway. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in an animal-trap having an inclined bottom and opposite sides, of a winch journaled at one end thereof, a movable platform mounted on the bottom and provided with opposite posts at its front end, a gate hinged to one of said posts, and opposite chains connected to the winch at one end and passing over drums located at the opposite ends of the sides, the opposite terminals of the chains being connected to the opposite posts" (lines 6-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: McIver, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating Liquids.

Patent for dehydrating petroleum oil emulsions through liquid seperation.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Seperating Associated Liquids. (open access)

Method of Seperating Associated Liquids.

Patent for a new method of seperating liquids, specifically those "in which particles of one liquid are held, or bound in mechanical suspension in another" (lines 10-12). The inventor provides the specific example of water and crude oil.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History