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Combined Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for an improvement in the construction and design of combined cotton and corn planters.
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with an outer casing, a central ice-receptacle having a perforated bottom, a water reservoir surrounding the ice-receptacle, provided with a packing of filtering material in the bottom, of an auxiliary reserve held beneath the ice-receptacle and main reservoir and connected with the latter by a series of tubes, and a tank in the bottom of the casing surrounding said auxiliary reserve adapted to receive the drip from the ice" (lines 85-95).
Date:
July 17, 1888
Creator:
Glück, Solomon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of motors.
Date:
October 23, 1888
Creator:
Haley, William Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Tonic
Patent for use the liquid preparation is applied to the head once a day why the scalp is thoroughly irrigated, and the after once or twice a week. By its use the hair will be prevented from falling out as often occurs after fevers, and when the foilices are not dead a new growth of hair will be formed on bald heads.[20]
Date:
July 24, 1888
Creator:
Wallace, William, T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a simplified washing machine by constructing it with "double bottoms and sides, and in providing the said machines with means by which the washing-liquid is made to flow upward between the said sides and downward upon the article or articles to be washed; and it also consists in providing suitable means whereby said articles or articles may be drained" (lines 14-20).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History