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Insect Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a box to be placed over the mouth of an anthill, whereupon one expects the ants to enter a hole, climb an incline, and slip down a pair of glass pieces that lower the ants into an inescapable chamber. This design is cheaper and easier to make than previous ant traps.
Date:
May 24, 1881
Creator:
Blackwood, Curtis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow, Harrow, and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in the construction of combined plows, harrows, and cultivators.
Date:
May 2, 1882
Creator:
Moss, John Carlton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision Safe.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Sykes, Robert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the bevel-end lap-joint top rails connected to and supported by the posts, the pendent panels consisting of series of horizontal rails interwoven in wire slings connected to the top rails, and links connecting the lower parts of the panels and the intermediate posts" (lines 20-27).
Date:
May 8, 1883
Creator:
Sevier, Moses Nimrod
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Knife.
Patent for a new and improved hay knife. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the forked frame, the lever pivoted thereto, slotted at one end and carrying at the other end a cutting-blade working through bearings in the fork, the crank pivoted to the frame and engaging the slot of the lever, and the pressure-head or cross-bar connected to the outer end of the frame" (lines 18-26).
Date:
May 29, 1883
Creator:
Moss, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 20, 1884
Creator:
Brown, Azariah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating Railway-Cars
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of car heaters for locomotives.
Date:
May 29, 1888
Creator:
Townley, Carter Shepherd
System:
The Portal to Texas History