Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for a rail joint. Illustrations included.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Savoy, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Condenser (open access)

Cotton Condenser

Patent for a cotton condenser. This invention applies multiple cylinders for seperating bats. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slate-Operating Means For Shutters. (open access)

Slate-Operating Means For Shutters.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in slate operating means for shutters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1899
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Willie, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Race-Course. (open access)

Toy Race-Course.

Patent for toy race-course.
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin (open access)

Cotton-Gin

Patent for "... certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Gins.." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 26, 1886
Creator: Ralston, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.

Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date: May 26, 1874
Creator: Royall, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History