Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Olson, John Lauris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Harvester-Conveyers. (open access)

Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Harvester-Conveyers.

Patent for a locking-lever for the gear-shifting mechanism for harvester-conveyers. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1891
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gear Shifting Mechanism for Harvesters. (open access)

Gear Shifting Mechanism for Harvesters.

Patent for a new and improved gear-shifting mechanism for harvesters. This design "has reference more especially to a gear-shifting mechanism for a reciprocating conveyer in which a gear is engaged and automatically disengaged as the conveyer nears the end of its stubbleward movement" (lines 10-15). It consists, "with a bar provided with a guide having a slot and a depression in said slot, an antifriction roller on said guide, a block or track having a recess, a movable bearing pivoted to the harvester-frame with one end and extending with its other end to the guide" (lines 106-112).
Date: August 23, 1892
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling press that has a rebounding plunger and is meant to have "an effective and substantial tripping and catching mechanism, simple in construction, low of production, and durable and easy to trip" (lines 22-25).
Date: May 23, 1893
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Adjusting Mechanism (open access)

Lamp-Adjusting Mechanism

Patent for a new and improved lamp-adjusting mechanism for automobiles and other vehicles that directs light from lamps in any direction, within a certain arc, in order to illuminate any object at the side of the road or street, with illustrations (lines 10-20).
Date: February 23, 1915
Creator: Kitching, David C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case (open access)

Show-Case

Patent for novel improvements in the construction and design of show cases.
Date: October 23, 1888
Creator: McNeil, Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History