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Wool-Press.
Patent for a wooden machine that is used to compress wool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 19, 1884
Creator:
Brooks, David F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projectile.
Patent for a new and improved projectile. This design consists "[i]n combination with the ellipsoidal projectile having a truncated base, a plano-concave sabot or driver whose plane face is contiguous to the base of the projectile, and whose periphery is grooved for the attachment of the charge-container" (lines 75-80).
Date:
September 9, 1884
Creator:
Hopson, Lucien
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists of cross-posts pivoted to a stringer, provided with a top-rail, having slats extending from the stringer to the ground, and secured to said stringer by barbed wire and staples (lines 36-40). This design is easily disassembled and moved, and the barbed wire prevents animals from disturbing it.
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Messenger, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History