Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for new and useful improvements in washing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Willis, Jessie T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow (open access)

Rotary Plow

Patent for a rotary plow. "It pertains to improvements in rotary plows" (p. 4). There is a detailed illustration of the rotary plow. Each component is labeled and it is described thoroughly in the text.
Date: July 1, 1884
Creator: Willis, W. Beale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Gang-Plow. (open access)

Rotary Gang-Plow.

Patent for a rotary gang-plow that has laterally movable castings, stirrups, beams working in the stirrups, axles connected to the disks, and adjustable sleeves.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Willis, WIlliam Beale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power Press. (open access)

Horse-Power Press.

Patent for improvements in horse-power presses by using a combination of a “frame and a shaft mounted therein, carrying an eccentric provided with a groove, of a packing-rod having a pivoted arm, carrying a roller working in said groove.” (Lines 87-91) This newly designed press is “reversible—that is to say, the eccentric may be rotated to the right or left and the same result produced on the packing-rods and in equally as effective a manner.” (Lines 75-79) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Willis, William Beale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Checkrein-Holder. (open access)

Checkrein-Holder.

Patent for a checkrein-holder for harness-saddles that has a hook grooved on one side, a plate or wire inside the groove that attaches the hook to a smaller hook, a link that engages one end of the hook and as connected to a bell-crank lever, the bell crank lever that locks the link into the hook, and a screw bolt for the bell-crank lever.
Date: January 1, 1895
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
End Gate For Wagons (open access)

End Gate For Wagons

Patent for and end gate for wagons. Illustration included.
Date: September 25, 1906
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Crate. (open access)

Stock-Crate.

Patent for "an improved crate for catching, loading and handling hogs and the like stock" (lines 14-16)
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Body (open access)

Wagon-Body

Patent for wagon body which fits on many different types of running bodies, including illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: Winans, Myron L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace. (open access)

Furnace.

Patent for portable field furnaces, that also provide a heating chamber that can engage the walls of containers of various sizes.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Winchell, Frederick A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Milk Cooler (open access)

Hydraulic Milk Cooler

Patent for a hydraulic milk cooler. This invention is shrouded in coolant agent absorbing material that is hydraulically applied to keep dairy products cool. Illustrations included.
Date: December 8, 1903
Creator: Womble, Zachariah C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for a plow for use in heavy or wet lands, including illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1879
Creator: Woodward, Lewis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for improvements in the constuction of plows in order to obtain the "best" (line 50) results of "cleanness in furrow, lightness of draft, and facility afforded in constructin the plow" (line 51-52).
Date: October 23, 1879
Creator: Woodward, Lewis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Appliance. (open access)

Surgical Appliance.

Patent for a surgical appliance, "adapted for the treatment of rectal and uterine troubles".
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Woodward, Lewis Ethridge
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
BalingPress (open access)

BalingPress

Patent for the usefulness of baling press.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Woodward, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg Testing Globe (open access)

Egg Testing Globe

Patent for egg tester, where you can place an egg into the globe and see if it is fertilized.
Date: December 5, 1916
Creator: Woolfolk, Paul E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter Attachment (open access)

Stalk-Cutter Attachment

Patent for improvements to stalk-cutter attachments to plows. The invention allows stalks to be cut by the plow and then turned under it into the soil to decrease labor an improve plow performance.
Date: April 7, 1919
Creator: Wylie, Arthur E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bed. (open access)

Folding Bed.

Patent for a new and improved folding bed. This design consists "of the base having side standards and an intermediate screen, two beds pivotally connected together and to the said standards at their inner corners and adapted to fold on each other and against the said screen, two drop-doors to close the open sides of the base and adapted to extend beneath the outer corners of the beds and support and hold them in a closed position, and two twin springs, one for each side of the bed, each spring being approximately U-shaped, the parallel members having coils at their upper ends" (lines 81-93).
Date: May 10, 1892
Creator: Yeager, James Ernst
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch Mechanism (open access)

Switch Mechanism

Patent for a switch mechanism, which is a improvement for the switch throwing mechanisms used for street railway systems. "The switch is set by means of tripping devices by the car and under control of the motorman."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Yoakum, Hugh D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History