Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved, durable, and efficient car couple that can be operated from one side of the car for the safety of the operator. The draw-head is newly designed.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Bishop, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Well Cleaning Machine.

Patent for a new well cleaning machine.
Date: April 24, 1900
Creator: Cowan, Elias H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone (open access)

Artificial Stone

Patent for artificial stone.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Gaines, Thomas Kemp
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists, "with the beam consisting, essentially, of the forwardly-converging branches at their forward ends and having the downwardly and forwardly curved branches at their rear ends and rack-teeth" (lines 100-104). It further consists "of the feet comprising parallel branches pivotally connected to the ends of the downwardly and forwardly curved branches of the beam branches, the gravitating pawls pivoted between the upper ends of the feet branches and adapted to engage the rack-teeth of the beam branches" (lines 1-8).
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: Ponton, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History