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Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Crow, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engineer's Level-Rod.
Reissued patent for an improvement in engineer's level which introduces a novel manner of marking the scale upon the face of the rod.
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shingle Gage.
Patent for a new and improved gauge for the installation of roofing shingles. This design utilizes a set of metal brackets and joined metal bars to guide in the nailing of shingles to the roof. This eliminates the need for marking in advance the target of the nail.
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Gay, Edward R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement of plows; and it consists of a combination of two plows, which are attached to separate beams of their own, and which run upon opposite side of the growing plants for the purpose of cutting away weeds and dirt from around them, with two culitivators or shovels, which run immediately in the rear of said plows, and which clutivators are attached to beams of their own and serve to throw the dirt back toward the plants, as will be more fully described hereinafter.
Date:
April 4, 1881
Creator:
Carter, Charles Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "construction and arrangement of arrow-shaped draw-heads and lever-bars adjustable upon rack-bars for the purpose of raising and lowering the draw-heads" (lines 16-20)including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Gray, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH.
Patent for formula used in whitewashing homes, walls, fences. etc. with ingredients and instructions included.
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Kerr, Archibald Henderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.
Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Faucher, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger
Patent for structural improvement in machines used for boring post holes and wells with illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
April 13, 1880
Creator:
Cudd, Decater P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Selkirk Candlestick
Patent for candlestick handle/dish with an extension that can be used traditionally for holding and carrying a candle as well as hanging on a nail in a wall with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 13, 1880
Creator:
Selkirk, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Stool.
Patent for an adjustable and foldable stool for but not limited to field workers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Smith, William Alexander & Smith, Robert Toumbleson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb.
Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wilson, Hence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.
Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for concepts and designs used to improve performance of Spark-Arresters used in the smoke stacks of locomotives with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History