Casing-Elevator. (open access)

Casing-Elevator.

Patent for a casing elevator used to remove casings of various diameters from wells. The main specialty of this invention is the use of hinged sections containing pivoted jaws to clamp around the casings.
Date: November 8, 1921
Creator: Boyter, Arthur J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Supporter. (open access)

Garment-Supporter.

Patent for a new garment-supporter, designed "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to support the hose and lower garments from the shoulders and capable of permitting perfect freedom of movement of every part of the body without chafing the same" (lines 12-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: August 8, 1905
Creator: Duckworth, Mary Eliza
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mailless Horseshoe. (open access)

Mailless Horseshoe.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in horseshoes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Hewitt, John Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment for Wheel-Cultivators. (open access)

Planter Attachment for Wheel-Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in planter attachments for wheel cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Homesley, James Mosses
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker (open access)

Cotton-Picker

Patent for cotton picking in relation to the picking needle that is capable of longitudinal movement.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Johnson, Billie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars (open access)

Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars

Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 8, 1890
Creator: McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed (open access)

Bed

Patent for a bed. This invention is designed for invalids that also provides a bed pan. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Myers, Nancy S. A. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings by enhancing a device called pin-lifter to couple and uncouple rail cars. Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Weathersby, Sarah Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History