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Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Methvin, Boling J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-wheel.
Patent for an enhanced spring-wheel featuring novel adjustments to the tread and assembly of side plates, includes illustrations.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Thomas, James Alfored
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance.
Patent for an improved window sash balance, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 8, 1914
Creator:
Jones, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jeweler's Pliers.
Patent for jeweler's pliers for settings rings, which prevent slipping.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
Feagle, Balfour
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Kiln Furnace.
Patent for improvements in dry-kiln furnaces by using “a series of furnaces alternating with a series of heating or radiating drums parallel to and on a plane above the furnace,” (Lines 116-119, p. 2) and valved connected flues. This arrangement allowed the “heat being regulated and so distributed through the kiln as to produce a varying temperature, highest at the end where the lumber is introduced and gradually diminishing toward the opposite end, where it is taken out.” (Lines 21-26) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Ketcham, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History