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Boll-Weevil Catcher
Patent for a machine for removing boll-weevils from growing cotton
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Hitt, Reed R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support
Patent for a supporting mechanism for the top of a buggy or vehicle while it is being lowered or traversing rough terrain. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 5, 1908
Creator:
Elms, Joab
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover.
Patent for an improvement in churn covers "which will embody a closed dead-air space above the body of the churn, a guide-tube for the dasher-rod, and the special construction at the outer edge of the base of the cover by which to provide a channel to fit upon the upper edge of the churn-body" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Van Hoozer, Thomas H. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for a crate that may be sealed both when erected and when folded by a common fastening member.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Janes, Robert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Canceler and Register.
Patent for a new and improved stamp canceller. This design "consists in the combination, with an ordinary hand canceling device, of an indicator" (lines 22-24). This design utilizes a lever, and "[b]y properly adjusting [it], the device will indicate the cancellation of one-cent or three-cent stamps, and it is obvious that by making similar and proper provision for the adjustment of the throw of [the lever] the cancellation of stamps of any denomination may be indicated" (lines 83-89).
Date:
May 3, 1881
Creator:
Lupton, Lewis R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History