Stock Feeding Apparatus (open access)

Stock Feeding Apparatus

Patent for clock controlled aparatus for feeding domestic livestock.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Bass, Fredie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener. (open access)

Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design is especially "for use in the tightening of wires in the construction of fences and in taking up slack after such fences have been constructed, but which instrument is also capable of use in tying packages with wire, binding planks to posts, and in other instances where it is desirable to tighten wire and secure it when so tightened. The invention consists, broadly, in a wire-tightener having a frame provided with guides for the wire and with a threaded bearing, a screw turning in said bearing, and a hook on said screw to engage the wire" (lines 8-20).
Date: February 12, 1889
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator implement "that is adapted in the event of meeting any impassable obstruction in the soil to turn backward at its lower end and permit the cultivator implement to ride through the action of the draft-power and, with the assistance of the attendant, so as to pass over such immovable obstruction and thereafter perform its intended cultivating function." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History