Grate-Bar. (open access)

Grate-Bar.

Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Stewart, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Watchmakers' Lathes. (open access)

Improvement in Watchmakers' Lathes.

Patent for the improvement of watchmakers' lathes by way of an adjustable bed.
Date: March 13, 1876
Creator: Williams, Daniel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History