Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a wrench "that a great number of tools [screw-driver, hammer, hatchet, auger, etc.] may be mounted thereon at one time and each accessible for use without removing any one part and without the various parts mounted thereon interfering with each other." (Lines 30-35) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: Rush, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects. (open access)

Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects.

Patent for a machine that removes insects from cotton plants. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Strouhal, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hub-Wrench. (open access)

Hub-Wrench.

Patent for a new and useful hub wrench, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Sauls, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mud Scraper. (open access)

Mud Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved mud-scraper. This design consists, "with a vehicle, of the transverse shaft geared to one of the wheels and provided at one of its ends with spiders, having its arms provided with perforations, the approximately U-shaped scrapers arranged to straddle the wheel, and the L-shaped plates or knees having one arm secured to a scraper and the other arm provided with perforations adjustably connected to the spider" (lines 88-102).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: Mangum, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Loader. (open access)

Stock-Loader.

Patent for a stock-loader that loads cattle onto locomotive cars and does not use a gangway. It is a "movable floor or platform which, by means of suitable mechanism, is moved toward the car, thus carrying the stock thereinto whether they face in the direction of movement or not, and without effort upon their part" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Rotzien, Christopher & Arnold, Philip
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects. (open access)

Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects.

Patent for "a new and original method of destroying the Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus gradis boh) and other insects that damage cotton while growing &c., &c. (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Strouhal, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History