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House-Moving Truck.
Patent for a simple, easy to use house-moving truck that goes under the sills of a house after it has been lifted from its foundation. It has "a swiveled caster, which is held in place by means of removable plates and braced by removable rods held in eyes of screw-rods, which pass through the bed-plate of the device and engage in the sleepers or sills of the building to be moved" (lines 19-24).
Date:
September 10, 1895
Creator:
Davis, Mace
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tightening Device For Spring Bed-Bottoms.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tightening devices for spring bed bottoms, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 10, 1899
Creator:
Lottman, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Pad Hook.
Patent for a harness-pad hook meant to attach the pad to the harness for gig-saddles. The hook "will be capable of adjustment to suit the size of the gig-saddle with which it is used, to the end that the hooks may be manufactured after all the same pattern" (lines 14-18). The hook won't damage the gig-saddle and the hook has finger-grasps.
Date:
September 10, 1895
Creator:
Sone, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Culvert.
Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive culvert of any size. It "is designed to displace the wood culverts that are used almost exclusively for the manufacture of large-sized culverts, inasmuch as vitrified pipe is not made in sufficiently large sizes for culvert use, and the ordinary large brick and stone culverts are very expensive" (lines 15-21).
Date:
September 10, 1895
Creator:
Parker, WIlliam S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe.
Patent for a durable and secure horseshoe that doesn't let "the heel of the hoof from contracting, thus overcoming the serious defect in other common types of shoes of permitting the horse to have a "narrow heel," as it is called, and to prevent slipping of the shoe on the icy surfaces" (lines 16-21).
Date:
September 10, 1895
Creator:
Custer, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History