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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
Cultivator-Harrow.
Patent for improvements in cultivator-harrows in which an adjustable “harrow-frame is adapted to the ready attachment of cultivators, plows, sweeps, scrapers, and various forms of cultivating devices which are interchangeable with each other and can be used either with or without the harrow-teeth, according to the character of work to be done.” (Lines 80-86) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 29, 1891
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carrier.
Patent for a carrying sack meant to carry cotton to and from the field. It is not carried on a worker's back or dragged on the ground. The sack is on an adjustable axle and "may be arranged at an inclination to cause the truck to travel upon a curved line to facilitate the guiding of the same in operation; and furthermore, to provide a fender to prevent objects from falling between the cotton sacks and the wheels of the truck" (lines 14-20).
Date:
November 28, 1893
Creator:
Laird, Archibald F. & Hill, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for a wheel-cultivator that attaches to planters or plows. It provides "means whereby a planter or a plow-beam carrying any desired cultivating implement can be attached to the frame of a riding or wheel cultivator frame, and thus enable the cultivator-frame to be applied to uses other than that for which it was intended" (lines 25-30).
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Morris, Thomas R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for "improvements in cotton-gins, and more particularly to that class of saw-gins in which the brush-cylinder is dispensed with and a combined suction-fan and doffer employed to remove the lint from the gin-saws; and the object is to simplify the construction and at the same time increase the effectiveness of this class of gins." (Lines 11-18)
Date:
September 28, 1897
Creator:
Heffner, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Fan
Patent for a new and useful revolving fan. This design "relates to certain improvements in revolving fans, such as are employed especially in connection with tables and the like for fanning the persons seated thereat" (line 8-11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Gibson, Levi A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Rack.
Patent for a hay-rack meant to "provide an improved device for holding or clamping hay within reach of livestock, and which while not impairing the feeding of the stock will prevent them from pulling the hay down beneath their feet" (lines 14-19).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Erskine, William James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device-for-Cooling-Milk-or-Butter
Patent for a device used for cooling milk or butter by means of evaporation so that there is a constant circulation of cool air around the milk or butter.
Date:
January 17, 1893
Creator:
Wilder, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a new design of kitchen cabinets with doors that open downward. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1896
Creator:
Webb, Samuel Baxtern
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Horseshoe.
Design patent for horseshoe with the flat lips projecting upwardly from the outer edge of the shoe and inwardly toward the center.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Cooper, William M. & Cates, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History