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Sewing-Machine Table
Patent for a sewing machine table intended to extend the top of the sewing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Saettler. Ernest C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in a plow-beam "having a downwardly-projecting extension or arm at its rear end and a plow-standard pivoted to the beam in front of said extension, of a plate connecting said standard and extension and adapted to slide vertically thereon and an adjusting screw for operating said plate" (lines 1-7).
Date:
September 9, 1890
Creator:
Swiedom, Ernst J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Railroad-Tie
Patent for an improvement on metallic railroad ties that is "simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to prevent the spreading of the rails and displacement of the ties in the railroad-bed" (lines 9-12).
Date:
December 13, 1892
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Gage.
Patent for a new and improved plow gauge. This design "may be adjusted as desired without loosening the connection of the share with the plow-stock, and that when it is desired to shift or change the stock, it may be readily done by running off [a] nut and swinging the bar and shoe forward on the hinge and entirely free from the bolt connections of the plowshare" (lines 73-80).
Date:
September 18, 1883
Creator:
Holt, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus
Patent for a folding game table apparatus for playing bowling type games.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Warren, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher
Patent for a new and useful horse-detaching device. This design is to "provide an exceedingly cheap and simple device wich can be applied to all classes of vehicles" (line 8 - 10).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Ponton, Joseph P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator "in which all of the plow shanks will be adjustable to or from the center line of the frame in order that the cultivator may be adapted for working different kinds of plants" (lines 19-23). It is laterally adjustable, and the tongue is vertically adjustable.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Tie Buckle.
Patent for an improved style of buckle for tying cotton bales. Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 6, 1903
Creator:
Howlett, Payton L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History