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Cotton-Bag Carrier.
Patent for improved cotton sack carrier: "the object of the present invention is to provide a device whereby cotton sacks may be conveniently carried during the picking of cotton from one portion of the field to another without wearing the sack and with convenience to the picker" (lines 10-15).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Laird, Archibald F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Stretching Wire Or Other Purposes.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for stretching wire or other purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision-Safe.
Patent for a provision safe that keeps food cool that uses "a jacket of absorbent material inclosing a suitable frame provided with shelves for supporting the articles of food, and a vat for containing water and supplying it to the jacket by capillary action whereby the temperature is reduced through the process of evaporation" (lines 15-21). This patent improves the design of provision safes.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Stephens, James Howell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Cleaner.
Patent for a dish-cleaner that is used in a sink or another container. Its object is to force "air through the water and in contact with the submerged dishes" (lines 17-18). The invention also has "a water-agitator surrounded with supports for holding the dishes or other articles in a vertical position in close proximity to the outlet-ports of the agitator" (lines 20-23).
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Bond, William Beebe
System:
The Portal to Texas History