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Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet. (open access)

Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for a new design of kitchen cabinets with doors that open downward. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Webb, Samuel Baxtern
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire Retainer for Vehicle-Wheels. (open access)

Cushion-Tire Retainer for Vehicle-Wheels.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cushion tire retainers for vehicle wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 1, 1898
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas Nicholas, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap. (open access)

Crab and Fish Trap.

Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Thomas, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton press that has a stationary plate and a steam or hydraulic powered plate and produces a continuous folded bat. This invention combines "advantages of the quick but not extremely powerful pressure of the ordinary steam press, and the powerful but slow pressure of the hydraulic press" (lines 14-17).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: McCutcheon, Joshua L.
System: The Portal to Texas History