Improvement in Tanning. (open access)

Improvement in Tanning.

Patent for improvements in tanning materials: "extractive matter for the manufacture of leather from the wood and bark of the mesquit - a tree of extensive growth on the prairies of western and north western Texas" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 5, 1865
Creator: Park, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "may be detached and used independent of the frame or carriage; also, that the tongue or pole may be detached and removed from the axle, and such axle, together with the bolster and hounds, may be applied to and used with the farm or other wagon. Thus by means of the attachments described a farmer can, by providing himself [or herself] with the pole and the attachments thereto . . . readily convert his [or her] ordinary walking plow into a wheel-plow by the aid of the hind wheels, axle, and hounds of his [or her] ordinary farm-wagon" (lines 72-84).
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Green, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cabinet. (open access)

Design for a Cabinet.

Design patent for a cabinet with a rectangular body and an internal horizontal partition.
Date: April 5, 1895
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.
System: The Portal to Texas History