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Improvement in Threshing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 9, 1869
Creator:
Fuos, Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree Protector.
Patent for a new and improved tree protector. This design "provide[s] the means whereby fruit-trees, ornamental trees, and other trees may be protected against the ravages of the cutting-ant and other crawling insects" (lines 35-39).
Date:
February 28, 1882
Creator:
Hornung, August & Fuos, Adolph Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drawing Board
Patent for a drawing board. Illustration included.
Date:
February 28, 1905
Creator:
McAnelly, Ernest Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer in the form of an oven that can be placed on the ground in the rows between plants to kill insects. This machine has an added benefit of killing weeds, as well.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History