Nailing - Machine. (open access)

Nailing - Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in nailing-machines. This design is "adapted to automatically distribute and feed the nails to a predetermined point" (line 10-12).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Brady, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "will serve to cut and pulverize the soil and at the same time will act as a guide to the plow, whereby it may be steadied and caused to run more evenly" (lines 17-20). It consists, "with the beam, the standards provided with shovels, and the brace-rod, of the backwardly-extending arm pivoted to standards and having its free end formed into a knife-edge, the vertical bar secured to said arm intermediate of its ends and provided with a series of holes and the pin passing through the beam and through said holes" (lines 65-73).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Stuard, Charles Decatur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pinless Clothes-Line. (open access)

Pinless Clothes-Line.

Patent for a pinless clothes line that consists of a series of links that have spring coils and spring clasps. The links also have a loop that is concave on one side.
Date: January 16, 1894
Creator: Kirk, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a mechanism that presses cotton, wool, hemp, hay, or other similar substances that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 451,846). This patent improves on the previous patent by improving the construction of the press.
Date: January 16, 1894
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling - Press (open access)

Baling - Press

Patent for a new and improved hay pressing or baling machine. This design "relates to presses or baling-machines, and more particularly to that class which are worked bu hand-power" (line 9 - 11).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Younger, William Turner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito-Canopy. (open access)

Mosquito-Canopy.

Patent for a folding bed that has a mosquito canopy that automatically unfolds over it. It includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1891
Creator: Eva, Addison H.
System: The Portal to Texas History