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Car-Shading Adjuster.
Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Smith, Earl W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders
Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters.
Patent for a device which rapidly heats a flat or smoothing iron utilizing a lamp with multiple burners which can be adjusted to raise the temperature of the flat iron to the desired degree.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Wilmot, Byron
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Confections.
Patent for a novelty method of packaging confections and similar snacks in an edible packaging resembling a baseball.
Date:
July 28, 1919
Creator:
Cressey, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Cleaner and Distributor
Patent for seed cotton cleaner and distributor, important for its ability to raise cotton plants into the air and clean them as they are fed into receptacles.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History