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Grain Measure and Tally.
Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Holland, John Newton
System:
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Jack for Turning Fly-Wheels of Engines, &c.
Patent for jacks for turning fly-wheels of engines, pulleys, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1897
Creator:
Roberts, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Storage System.
Patent for storage system to store goods without using ice or any other material for lowering temperature. This design uses strategic air circulation to achieve the desired low temperature.
Date:
August 5, 1902
Creator:
Rector, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for improvements in "construction of tilting gates and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be readily opened and closed at a distance fron either side of it by a person in a vehicle or on horseback" (lines 11-16).
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Berkley, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dust Box.
Patent for a new and improved dust-box. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a floor having an aperture cut into it and provided with a door flush with the surface of the floor, of a dust-box having a square bottom and diverging sides formed with outwardly-projecting flanges re-enforced upon their under sides by plates or bars and having strips secured to the inner sides, having their upper ends bent inward" (lines 76-83).
Date:
August 17, 1886
Creator:
Ethridge, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Arch
Patent for a cultivator arch designed to adjust and secure the beams of a plow. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 20, 1907
Creator:
Spence, Enoch M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History