Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles (open access)

Improvement for Axle-Boxes for Vehicles

Patent for an improvement in axle-boxes for vehicles which incorporates an adjustable tube that may take up the wear on its ends.
Date: June 11, 1872
Creator: Ahrenbeck, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an improved combined planter, cultivator, and cotton-chopping tool with design specifications and directions for the usage of the tool, including illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1878
Creator: Sarlls, Rutus & Kelman, Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tonic Remedies. (open access)

Improvement in Tonic Remedies.

Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
Date: January 11, 1876
Creator: Rucker, Benjamin Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Whiffletree-Fastenings. (open access)

Improvement in Whiffletree-Fastenings.

Patent for the improvement of whiffletree fastenings, relating to the means by which single-trees are attached to a double-tree. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 11, 1872
Creator: Ahrenbeck, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Overcoming Dead-Centers. (open access)

Mechanism for Overcoming Dead-Centers.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in mechanism for overcoming dead centers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1898
Creator: Johnson, Willie H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for improvements in wire-stretcher for use in fence-building in which wire is secured to a fence-post, using horse power to hitch to the whiffletree and driven along close to the lines of posts. When wires are being leaded out, they are being stretched simultaneously. A lever is inserted in front of the spools as a final additional tension device to tighten and staple the wire to the fence-posts. Illustration is included.
Date: August 11, 1891
Creator: Woodward, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History