Fish and Game Trap. (open access)

Fish and Game Trap.

Patent for a design for improvements of fish and game traps, including illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Bolling, Allen G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wick Trimmer. (open access)

Wick Trimmer.

Patent for a new and improved wick trimmer. This design "is to provide a lamp-wick trimmer with adjustable guides that will afford means to retain the implement in correct position for use on lamp-wick tubes of different sizes, and furthermore to furnish the wick-trimmer with blades that will shear the wick from each side edge toward the center simultaneously" (lines 7-14).
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Andrews, Daniel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History