Turning Tool for Bale Band Fasteners. (open access)

Turning Tool for Bale Band Fasteners.

Patent for "novel construction of turning-tool having simple and efficient means for exerting a powerful leverage upon the turning or winding element of the fastener, whereby all of the slack in the bale-band may be readily taken up and drawn very tight, thus insuring the manipulation of the bale-band fastener in a way to provide for taking up a maximum amount of slack with a minimum movement" (lines 16-25). Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater. (open access)

Water Heater.

Patent for easy to clean water heater that is meant to deal with issues of hard water residue collecting on parts. Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener (open access)

Wire-Tightener

Patent for invented certain new and useful improvement in Wire-Tightener invention relates to an improvement in and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set here in after and particularly pointed out in the claim.
Date: January 22, 1889
Creator: Bulter, Constant, B.
System: The Portal to Texas History