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Axle-Setting Machine (open access)

Axle-Setting Machine

Patent for a axle setting machine that can be used on any type of axle, has its own lever, and doesn't touch the inside of the axle collar.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Roberts, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel (open access)

Wheel

Patent for a vehicle wheel with a rigid frame and a hub that has radical range of motion.
Date: April 7, 1903
Creator: Lasswell, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Bowman, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History