Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventors (No. 507,854). The improvements are that the "stock may be used in connection with any form of share needed for working a crop" (lines 14-16) and the plow provides "a sweep-stock with a point which will be integral with its shoe or foot-bar, and which will assist in holding the share in position" (lines 20-23).
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Symmank, Herman & Matthijez, Ernst
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup. (open access)

Stirrup.

Patent for a light and durable stirrup that can be used in light and heavy saddles and has an improved construction.
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus. (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for a refrigerating apparatus that consists of a circular table that has a reservoir in its middle and jars mounted on fibrous mats and secured in a grid around the reservoir. Fibrous bags surround the jars and the excess material is gathered and goes into the reservoir.
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Dodge, Israel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch. (open access)

Clutch.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the necessity of providing outside collars" (lines 17-27).
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Carleton, Ernest WIlliam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle. (open access)

Riding-Saddle.

Patent for a ridding-saddle that is an improvement previously granted to Jesse D. Padgitt (No. 540,940). The improvements include increasing the strength to the flexible rear portion of the saddle. The first patent was for a saddle "distinguished by a tree or frame formed of a short rigid fork and a flexible body or rear portion, including a seat and cantle, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material" (lines 10-14).
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Padgitt, William C. & Padgitt, Jesse D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller. (open access)

Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller.

Patent for a convertible corn and cotton planter, stalk-cutter, and roller. It has a main frame, a supplemental frame that has its front end hinged to the front of the main frame, a roller with circular journaled in the supplemental frame, transverse segment-plates with removable blades attached to the supplemental frame, spaces between the segment-plates, an axle, driving-wheels, a sprocket wheel and chain, feed-boxes, means for feeding the grain, and wheels for laying the ground and the coverers.
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Mauldin, Columbus Scott
System: The Portal to Texas History