Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a device that combines three tools - a lifting-jack, a clamp, and a wire-stretcher all in one. It does so without sacrificing the functionality of any part.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: White, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Apparatus For Washing Dishes and Table-Cutlery (open access)

Improvement In Apparatus For Washing Dishes and Table-Cutlery

Patent for improvements to a dish washing machine with specifications and illustrations attached.
Date: August 12, 1879
Creator: Walling, Edmund, P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker (open access)

Cotton-Picker

Patent for improvements to cotton pickers providing a wheeled machine that will "remove cotton lint from the plants by mechanical means" (lines 15-16) with added new features to construction and operation, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stiles & Ascue, Elbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calipers and Dividers. (open access)

Calipers and Dividers.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in measuring instruments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Taulman, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for Baling-Press designed particularly as a further improvement of the press and eliminate the long operating lever. (lines 12-14).
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History