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Automatic Service Cock.
Patent for a new and improved automatic service cock. This design "furnish[es] an improved automatic valve to form the connection between the water-main or distributing pipe and the service-pipe of a building for regulating the flow and pressure of water in such service-pipe and preventing overpressure" (lines 7-12).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Freeman, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design "consists in a wire attached to the anchor or escapement-lever of a clock-work for ringing or sounding an alarm bell, which wire has a hook at its outer end, which is passed into a loop, ring, or hook at the end of a wire connected with the key-bolt or knob-bolt of a lock, or with a wire leading to places a considerable difference from the alarm" (lines 11-18).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Holloman, Harvey Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Hive.
Patent for a new and improved bee hive. This design consists of "the combination, with the removable section, having the right-angled slots and the comb-frames of the securing-bar" (lines 95-98).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Norwood, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hunting Lamp.
Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Brittan, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Carriage for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved sulky plow. This design "furnish[es] a sulky-frame and plow supporting and adjusting devices of a simplified construction, and [provides] more effective means for gaging the depth of the penetration of the plow into the ground, and guiding or steadying the movement thereof" (lines 17-23).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Ward, James & Washburn, Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Kindler.
Patent for a composition of matter to be used for kindling fires. Ingredients, proportions of ingredients and mixing instructions are included. No illustration.
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Boyd, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History