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Blind Stop.

Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design is "to provide a cheap and simple device designed to be secured to a window-casing and be interposed between any two adjacent pivoted slats, and thus support the same and the series in an open position and against accidental closing by their own weight or by the wind" (lines 9-16). It consists in the "holder for slats of blinds, consisting of a spring-metal strip bent at its center to form an eye and opposite terminals, the latter being adap… more

Date: April 19, 1892

Creator: Deats, Wallen S. & Brown, Daniel

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Juan Ortiz

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, horse illustration, and business name with text reading: "Criador en Ganado Vacuno, Caballar y Lanar."

Date: 1892

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Electric Battery.

Patent for a new and improved electric battery. This design consists "[i]n an electric generator, a receptacle for steam, and means for admitting steam thereto, in combination with electrodes consisting of two parallel disks suspended within said steam-receptacle, electrodes of opposite polarity to the aforesaid electrodes arranged between the disks of the first-named electrodes, a shaft extending through the said receptacle upon which the latter electrodes are mounted, and means for rotating t… more