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Apparatus for Retailing Shot.
Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Stokes, Micajah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Freight Receipt from the Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. to David C. Dickson]
Freight receipt from the Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. to David C. Dickson listed as bill number 484, and includes a list of items being shipped. The table at the bottom lists the items, their weight, the rate, and finally the total cost.
Date:
September 21, 1882
Creator:
Patrick, W. D.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot.
Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "tubes having their upper ends bent downward, a bridge or cross-piece connecting their upper ends, the suspending-rods depending from the bridge, the ring on the lower ends of the suspending-rods, the [other] ring, and the separate strainer held removably between the two said rings" (lines 84-90).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History