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Combination Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "relates to improvements in combination tools, and is designed to produce a tool in which the wrench, hammer, and screwdriver are combined in a compact and useful form. The improvement consists, essentially, in the manner of combining the parts and in the particular construction thereof" (lines 10-17).
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Miller, Walker C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator for Grain-Bins.
Patent for an improvement in fumigators for grain-bins by producing “an apparatus by means of which sulphur or other life-destroying fumes can be forced into the bottom of the bin, so as to drive out insects or animal life, and thus protects the grain from their depredations.” (Lines 22-26) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Manahan, Thaddeus Atheburt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and effective wire-stretcher that stretches wire and attaches it to the same post to which it is applied. It has a frame, a claw, a spool, a crank, a ratchet wheel, a pawl, and and a chain that secures the claw to the frame. The parts fit inside the body portion of the frame, and wire wraps around the spool.
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Myers, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design calls for two spring-bars to be driven into the ground alongside two crossbars and laced between the latter. This lacing of spring-bars allows for "much additional bracing strength" for the crossbars and enables barbed wire to be stretched along where the spring-bars intersect (line 33).
Date:
April 11, 1882
Creator:
Daviss, Horatio P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History