Seat Lock For Wagons (open access)

Seat Lock For Wagons

Patent for a seat lock for wagons. Illustration included.
Date: August 16, 1904
Creator: Moore, Leon P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rolling Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Rolling Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a serrated device that prevents cattle from escaping.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Belto, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy. (open access)

Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy.

Patent for a medical compound to alleviate dropsy, consisting of grape-vine, spirits of niter, oil of grape-vine, extract of Spanish apple root, and common salt. Includes instructions.
Date: November 14, 1876
Creator: Lawhon, David W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of running up the follower, or against the small pulley for the purpose of running it down, by drawing the said level inward or outward." (Lines 15-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Knowles, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Reissued patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton press: "The invention consists in operating the nut of a follower-screw by means of a drive-pinion, whose own shaft is actuated alternately in opposite directions, by a friction-wheel" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for a cotton press that is constructed using fewer parts than other models. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1870
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow designed with an implement to allow user to remove excess dirt from the blade as the plow is being used.
Date: April 1, 1879
Creator: Dyer, Charles V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Razor (open access)

Safety Razor

Patent for a safety razor.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Wrede, Albin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vise and Saw Clamp (open access)

Vise and Saw Clamp

Patent for a vise and a saw clamp
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: King, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motion-Picture-Film Cleaner. (open access)

Motion-Picture-Film Cleaner.

Patent for improvement in motion picture film cleaners which quickly and efficiently removes oil, dirt and grease from film that has been caused by the machines; includes illustrations.
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Noble, Marcos Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison Distributor for Growing Plants (open access)

Poison Distributor for Growing Plants

Patent for a device that can be easily attached to a cultivator and delivers poison to both the roots and the top of a plant, protecting the plant from pests and disease, with illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Zedlitz, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace-Forming Die (open access)

Furnace-Forming Die

Patent for a die for fashioning a furnace for cooking and ironing. Illustrations included.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Williams, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Muehr, Frank & Frerich, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washer (open access)

Dish-Washer

Patent fora dishwasher. The object of this invention is to furnish an improved means for washing dishes in such a manner that all foreign substances, greasy matters, and offensive odors may be readily and expeditiously removed and the dishes restored dry and clean by the operation of the machine without handling them.
Date: January 14, 1891
Creator: Hoppe, Frederick William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a large hopper-based device which generates acetylene gas.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Clopton, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Belt-Fasteners. (open access)

Improvement in Belt-Fasteners.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Belt-Fasteners. Illustration is included.
Date: November 28, 1871
Creator: Olmsted, Marcellus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Prokschl, Mathias
System: The Portal to Texas History