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Combination-Lock for Money-Drawers, &c.
Patent for improvement to a combination lock for money drawers to make it more secure.
Date:
March 16, 1886
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File.
Patent for a new and improved file. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a file having its teeth cut to extend half-way across the face from each edge and at an angle to each other, and having a longitudinal groove in the middle of each face" (lines 22-27).
Date:
November 2, 1886
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the upright frame supported on the beam and carrying the two pivoted arms, in combination with the wheel having studs on both sides, the wires, and the lever middle fastened to the agitator-shaft . . . a hopper having the circular excision in its bottom, of the horizontal feed-wheel and arms, fast to a vertical vibratory shaft" (lines 79-88).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Williams, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
February 1886
Creator:
Craig, A. M.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History