Improvements in Wheel-Plows. (open access)

Improvements in Wheel-Plows.

Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Flow, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy (open access)

Toy

Patent for a toy. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Whitefield, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe Holder for Boot Blacking Stands (open access)

Shoe Holder for Boot Blacking Stands

Patent for a shoe holder for boot blacking stands. This invention is to provide an inexpensive tree stand to firmly hold in place shoes for polishing. Illustration included.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Hann, Edmund Lyne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges. (open access)

Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges.

Patent for a side rail for suspension bridges that is meant "to provide an improved side railing constituting a truss, which will be light, durable, and of structural simplicity" (lines 20-23).
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Clothes-Press. (open access)

Power Clothes-Press.

Patent for a "manually operated clothes press which is provided with a self-heating iron and a self sprayer" (lines 11-14). Includes a pressure release feature that removes iron from clothing to prevent burning when foot pedal is not engaged.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Mundy, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History