Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in antifriction bearings for " the ends of the hub and means for eluding dust fro the bearings" (line 11 -13).
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing Axle-Box. (open access)

Ball-Bearing Axle-Box.

Patent for a new and useful ball bearing axle box, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles Bingley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Sinking Wells. (open access)

Tool for Sinking Wells.

Patent for improvements in tools for sinking artesian wells, that the tool “will perform its duty under all circumstance and excavate as well in hard materials as in soft earth, as quicksand and cavey formations, and will not have its functions interfered with when an insufficient flow of water is encountered.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Stephenson, James D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for the invention of new and useful improvement to car-couplings. "This invention is an improved car coupling seeking among other improvements to provide simple, easily operated devices by which the cars may automatically couple..." (lines 7-10) Including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Vogt, August G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck-Yoke. (open access)

Neck-Yoke.

Patent for "a safety attachment for neck yokes which, if the neck yoke or the straps which connect it to the pole or to the collars break, will come into action and prevent the pole from dropping" (lines 8-13).
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ointment for Skin Diseases (open access)

Ointment for Skin Diseases

Patent for "a liniment or ointment for the treatment of ring worm or cutaneous troubles, and the compound is described in the following specification and claim" (lines 10-13).
Date: April 4, 1890
Creator: Bergmann, Anton
System: The Portal to Texas History