Corn Or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn Or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and useful corn or cotton planter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Linam, John W. & Whitworth, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroads. (open access)

Construction of Railroads.

Patent for an improved railroad construction that consists of "an all metallic railroad which will not be very expensive, will be so strong that an accident is practically impossible, and which may be very rapidly laid" (lines 11-14).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for a milk cooler meant to keep milk cool while it sets for cream raising. "The objects in view are to utilize the currents of air, cooling the same to the proper temperature by passing them over a body of water, bringing said currents in contact with the milk and in connection with it and the surrounding water cooling the milk" (lines 11-16).
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Blanton, Tillius B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment for Planters. (open access)

Plow Attachment for Planters.

Patent for an invention "to equip any style of planter with a plow attachment for breaking and opening the soil in advance of the furrow-opener and seeding mechanism." (Lines 8-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Conoley. Malcom C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railroad (open access)

Elevated Railroad

Patent for "improvements in elevated railways; and the object of my invention is to produce an elevated-railway system which is comparatively cheap, which is absolutely safe, and in which the cars are arranged so that they ride very easily and can be readily adapted for both passenger and freight traffic" (lines 8-15).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to plows; and it consists in certain improvements of construction of the same, having for its object to admit of the adjustment of the heel-bar of the plow with relation to the standard of the same, and also to provide the said heel-bar with an adjustable knife or cutter which shall serve as a rudder to prevent the plow from swerving to either side during operation" (lines 8-16).
Date: October 7, 1890
Creator: Echols, Christopher Columbus
System: The Portal to Texas History