Resource Type

Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel meant for children's carriages that has double fellies, spokes, and a hub that has "an interposed band connecting said fellies at suitable intervals and adapted for the attachment to the spokes" (lines 69-71).
Date: February 12, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge. (open access)

Gate-Hinge.

Patent for improvements in gate hinges, "the object being to provide hinges which will hold the gate in an open position." (Lines 9-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck-Yoke Center. (open access)

Neck-Yoke Center.

Patent for a device that improves, simplifies, and strengthens the construction of neck yoke centers.
Date: February 6, 1906
Creator: Quick, E. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History