Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: West, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: West, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] car-coupler having a hook formed thereon . . . an open recess in the rear thereof, pins or projecting supports adjacent to the recess . . . a trigger pivoted to the coupler and projecting beyond the hook, so as to support the link . . . independent of the coupler and adapted to pass over the hook" (lines 64-75).
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Richardson, Samuel T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon. (open access)

Wagon.

Patent for a wagon with an end gate, which is specialized for the unloading of scoop-able grains into bins without spillage.
Date: August 6, 1907
Creator: Housworth, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Lamps (open access)

Improvement in Lamps

Patent for the construction of a combined oil burning lamp and candlestick.
Date: August 3, 1869
Creator: Richer, F. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Mills. (open access)

Improvement in Coffee-Mills.

Patent for an improvement to upright coffee-mills, "whereby the bearings are always maintained in their true relative positions, while the strain on the two is made automatically counteracting, and each part of the shell firmly and effectually supported by the other." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 16, 1870
Creator: Richer, Francois Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Hoppers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Gin Hoppers.

Patent for improvement in cotton-gins, including illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1879
Creator: Horne, Edward Gideon
System: The Portal to Texas History