Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools. (open access)

Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools.

Patent for a new and useful coupling for well drilling tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 3, 1899
Creator: Kuehn, Joachim F. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prickly-Pear Or Cactus Burner. (open access)

Prickly-Pear Or Cactus Burner.

Patent for a new and useful prickly pear or cactus burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 3, 1899
Creator: Ellison, Jeff Storey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device. (open access)

Hitching Device.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive hitching device that can be easily applied to the driver, can connect a weight to the draft animal's bit, and can be easily adjusted.
Date: October 3, 1893
Creator: Crowley, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Plow-Handle. (open access)

Design for a Plow-Handle.

Design patent for a plow-handle with upper and lower edges that are substantially parallel.
Date: October 3, 1899
Creator: Brown, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date: October 3, 1893
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History