Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Boese, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn dasher that will fit in any size churn and is simple and economical to produce.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Koch, Rudolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Hanging Apparatus. (open access)

Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.

Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Cloud, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History