Crayon-Holder (open access)

Crayon-Holder

Patent for a new and useful crayon holder, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 19, 1899
Creator: Yates, Robert T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c. (open access)

Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.

Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Thompson, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a nut-wrench capable of tightening different sized nuts. The lower jaw of the wrench has different levels, the overall effect being that of a staircase, while the upper jaw is flat with a bite that holds the nuts in place.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Tiner, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine for the Blind (open access)

Type-Writing Machine for the Blind

Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Sthreshley, Lizzie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie (open access)

Railway-Tie

Patent for a railway tie that can be "firmly secured in the road-bed and which will hold single or double rails" (lines 10-11) so that they cannot be accidentally displaced, including illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Budington, Albert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Produced From Lignite. (open access)

Fuel Produced From Lignite.

Patent for the process by which fuel is created from lignite coal.
Date: March 16, 1891
Creator: Edelmann, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History