Cattle-Yoke. (open access)

Cattle-Yoke.

Patent for a new and useful cattle yoke for preventing them from breaking, tearing down, jumping over, or crawling through the openings in fences (line 6 -8).
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Machine. (open access)

Wire-Fence Machine.

Patent for a new and useful wire-fence machine that can be conveniently carried around.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Watson, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for a new and useful insect - destroyer.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Priest, Eli Thompson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Conveyers for Harvesters. (open access)

Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Conveyers for Harvesters.

Patent for the combination of parts in gear-shifting mechanisms in harvesters and binders, making construction cheaper and simpler. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1891
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling. (open access)

Thill-Coupling.

Patent for carriage and wagon couplings, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1891
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Swinging Gates. (open access)

Means for Operating Swinging Gates.

Patent "to simplify and improve the construction of means for opening and closing swinging gates," (lines 10 - 12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Rhodes, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Filer. (open access)

Gin-Saw Filer.

Patent for a new and useful gin-saw filer.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Wilson, David M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow and Cultivator. (open access)

Harrow and Cultivator.

Patent for a combination harrow and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Apparatus. (open access)

Hoisting Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in hoisting apparatus by “employing two cables and two sheaves that one cable and one sheave operate to elevate the weight or object in an approximately-vertical plane, so as to avoid contact with any side obstruction, while the secondary cable can subsequently be slackened sufficiently to permit the traveling sheave of the hoisting-cable to run off in a lateral direction and carry with it the sheave of the slackened secondary cable, for the purpose of transferring the object or weight to a desired position out of the line of the approximately-vertical direction first given to it.” (Page 2, lines 4-16) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1892
Creator: Davis, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Water Heating and Purifying Apparatus. (open access)

Feed-Water Heating and Purifying Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in feed-water heating and purifying apparatus by “utilizing the heat of exhaust-steam from locomotive-cylinders, and the waste heat from the products of combustion in the combustion-chamber; or smoke-arch for heating and purifying the feed-water in transit to the locomotive-boiler.” (Lines 11-16) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1892
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Distributer and Feeder. (open access)

Seed-Cotton Distributer and Feeder.

Patent for a new and useful seed cotton distributer and feeder.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Simington, Charley M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for "a plow especially adapted to be used in turning the well-known black or stiff lands in the Western States," (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 2, 1891
Creator: Hill, David J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment. (open access)

Piano Attachment.

Patent for a new and useful piano attachment.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment. (open access)

Piano Attachment.

Patent for a new and useful piano attachment for "facilitating the adjustment of the means employed for producing said tones and for locking said means in operative position" (line 11 - 14).
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for improvements in harrows, "so that any farmer who possesses a Georgia stock or ordinary plow-beam with its attached handles can purchase one of [these] improved harrows per se and without the exercise of any special mechanical knowledge or experience apply the harrow device or contrivance to the beam of such ordinary plow stock." (Lines 40-47) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Circuit -Closing Device. (open access)

Electric-Circuit -Closing Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in electric circuit closing devices.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Newman, George
System: The Portal to Texas History