Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel that imitates a pneumatic tire.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Goss, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key. (open access)

Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key.

Patent for a new and improved combined torch and gas-burner key. This design "relates to a device for lighting gas-burners and operating the cock of the gas-burner, and has for its object to provide a combined torch and key by means of which the gas may be lighted without the flame of the torch coming in contact with the globe surrounding the burner and the cock of the gas-burner readily taken hold of and operated" (lines 8-15).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Lindsay, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench which is more balanced in the hand than other wrenches.
Date: October 13, 1908
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E. & Hall, Samuel N.
System: The Portal to Texas History