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Funnel and Gage.
Patent for a funnel and gage with a mechanism used to indicate "when the proper amount of water has been inserted in the battery" (lines 14-15).
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Burkett, Joseph Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improving the way that hay bales are tied and bound. This bale tie is an addition to a previous patent (number 152,138).
Date:
June 16, 1874
Creator:
Mangham, Josiah T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for improvements to a device to perform an operation known as a perrineorhaphia, including an illustration of the device. This device stabilizes the edges of a wound on the perineum so the surgeon can place sutures and close the wound.
Date:
September 16, 1902
Creator:
Simpson, Richard H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved horse-detacher. This design "is to make a compound single-tree which, with certain attachments, will hold the traces securely or allow them to be drawn off the hooks if the horse should run; also, to hold up the shafts while the horse is passing therefrom" (lines 15-20). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination, with the spring-held vibratory draft-rod having the loop, of the strap and the shaft, the latter carrying the oppositely-placed stirrup-arm and treadle-arm" (lines 74-78).
Date:
September 16, 1890
Creator:
Chamlee, Jeff D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History