Animal Tag. (open access)

Animal Tag.

Patent for a new and improved animal tag. This design "consists in an animal-tag formed of a tube provided with a removable cover and an elongated staple for the strap, by which this tube is held to the animal" (lines 11-14).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Queen, Elias G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet. (open access)

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for a new and useful kitchen cabinet, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Goodale, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics (open access)

Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics

Patent for a new and useful improvements in mechanism for cleansing clothing or textile fabrics. This invention is to "provide a simple and economical construction and combination of parts whereby the clothes or fabrics operated upon shall be disturbed and displaced at each successive stroke of a pump forming part of the mechanism" (line 11-16).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Wright, John W. & Burkes, Howell H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History