Resource Type

Automobile-Elevator. (open access)

Automobile-Elevator.

Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Wright, Virgil Tilden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liner for Steam-Pumps. (open access)

Liner for Steam-Pumps.

Patent for a removable liner for steam pumps.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Rail-Lubricators (open access)

Improvements in Rail-Lubricators

Patent for "a lubricating apparatus for use on street and other cars for lubricating the track when the car rounds a curve" (lines 8-11) including list of parts and illustrations.
Date: April 27, 1910
Creator: Freeman, Frank S. & Doke, Fred L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Terracing-Machine. (open access)

Terracing-Machine.

Patent for a terracing machine to provide a device to this character constructed in such a manner that farm land can be readily terraced to prevent the soil washing away. Other features are having the means for vertically adjusting either end of the terracing scraper and to allow the scraper to easily and quickly be adjusted into different angular relations to the draft tongue.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Reese, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History