Coffee Mill Attachment. (open access)

Coffee Mill Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved coffee-mill attachment. This design "is to provide an attachment for coffee-mills whereby a cup or other receptacle can be suspended beneath the discharge-spout of the mill to receive the ground coffee therefrom, and which vessel can also be easily and readily fitted or adjusted beneath or removed from the discharge-spout, and to provide means which can be applied very easily and readily to hand coffee-mills of any class, and which shall be simple in construction and inexpensive" (lines 16-26).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Wiesendanger, Emil Ulrich
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pan or Lid Lifter. (open access)

Pan or Lid Lifter.

Patent for a new and useful pan or lid lifter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: Jones, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps. (open access)

Improvement in Pumps.

Patent for "a pump having two barrels of different diameters, the larger being subjacent to the smaller, and each provided with a valved piston, said pistons being both secured to the same piston-rod, in combination with a weight, arranged to counter-balance the added weights of the water-columns above the smaller and below the larger piston." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 24, 1878
Creator: Beeman, Geraldo A. & Mason, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History