Coffee Mill. (open access)

Coffee Mill.

Patent for a new and improved coffee mill. This design consists of "the combination of the case having the chambers and the hopper, the burr or grinding disk, fastened to the lower end of the inner side of the hopper and to the upper side or top of the chamber . . . shaft, having a disk, revolving in a covered recess or chamber in the burr, bridge, screws, and handle" (lines 57-65).
Date: June 13, 1882
Creator: Fleming, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet. (open access)

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operation" (line 9-20).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Shanley, Michael H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Stock Or Standard. (open access)

Plow Stock Or Standard.

Patent for new and useful improvements in plow stocks or standards. including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Armstrong, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History