Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons (open access)

Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons

Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
Date: September 9, 1879
Creator: Gibson, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stone-Sawing Machine (open access)

Stone-Sawing Machine

Patent for new and unique improvements to stone-sawing machines.
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Ferguson, James Crawford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the main frame and plow or plows, curved plate slotted and perforated . . . and rigidly secured to said frame, a horizontal lever passing through the slot of the same and pivoted to the main frame, a spring-bolt and operating devices, a vertical bar pivotally suspended from said lever, and a carrying-wheel having one of its spindles bearing in the lower end of the bar, together with a depending bar secured rigidly to the frame and having a pivotal depending link" (lines 1-12).
Date: September 2, 1890
Creator: Stuart, Isom & Stuart, Bronick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings by enhancing a device called pin-lifter to couple and uncouple rail cars. Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Weathersby, Sarah Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator. (open access)

Refrigerator.

Patent for a refrigerator that cools dairy and other food products by evaporating water. The cooler is a chest with water in it and containers with absorbent material around the bottom of the containers that sits in the water. The outer chest is metal, and a container sits underneath to catch drips.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Greene, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester-Platform and Carrier. (open access)

Harvester-Platform and Carrier.

Patent for a harvester-platform and carrier that carries forward and elevates the grain. It has toothed bars, a framed, a crank-shaft that is connected to the toothed bars, a cross-rod loosely connected to the crank-shaft, and it is pivotally mounted on grain.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Compton, Silas T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster. (open access)

Caster.

Patent for a new and useful caster to be "applied to light and heavy furniture" (line 13-14).
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Gluck, Solomon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireplace. (open access)

Fireplace.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fireplaces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: May, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevating-Truck. (open access)

Elevating-Truck.

Patent for invention to "improve the construction of elevating-trucks and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive apparatus adapted to be readily moved from one place to another and capable of enabling bales, boxes and the like to be readily lifted from the ground or other supporting-surface and raised to a convenient position for loading such freight upon a wagon or other conveyance" (p. 1, lines 10-18).
Date: September 14, 1900
Creator: Penick, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking Tool (open access)

Wireworking Tool

Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Dickey, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for a draft equalizer for vehicles drawn by three horses. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Tedder, Iverson, G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt Attachment for Trousers. (open access)

Belt Attachment for Trousers.

Patent for a new invention of belt loops for trousers that are located inside the waistband with "the loop in the middle of the back being located lower than the others, and a belt confined entirely within the trousers and secured to the trousers at the front only and at a point lower than the adjacent loops." (lines 71-77).
Date: September 28, 1915
Creator: Woodruff, William Douglas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer

Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
System: The Portal to Texas History