Hydraulic Motor. (open access)

Hydraulic Motor.

Patent for a hydraulic motor designed for water intake through top ring.
Date: May 11, 1886
Creator: Cooper, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press. (open access)

Press.

Patent for a new and improved press. This design consists in "the combination of the manipulating-levers, the followers, and the toggle-arms, of which arms the outer ends of two are connected to the outer ends of the levers, while their inner ends are connected to the sides of the follower near its inner end, and the outer ends of the others are connected to the levers" (lines 96-102). The inner ends of these other toggle-arms have "their inner ends . . . connected to the sides of the other follower near its inner end" (lines 1-3).
Date: January 10, 1888
Creator: Gordon, Lorenzo Dow
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener. (open access)

Hame Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved hame fastener. This design utilizes a clasp that slides along a bar. When the clasp is at the desired position relative to the hame, a pin and a locking plate on the clasp lock the clasp in place; thus the hame is fastened.
Date: April 26, 1881
Creator: Crump, Thomas Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sawing Machine. (open access)

Sawing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consists in the combination of a drag-saw, an operating-lever, and a wheelbarrow or truck, the wheelbarrow being made to support the saw and move it . . . [t]he object of [the] invention is to provide an easy and ready means of transporting the saw from place to place, and to so connect it to the wheelbarrow or truck which supports it that they can be readily separated, so that the wheelbarrow or truck can be used by itself" (lines 13-24).
Date: April 26, 1881
Creator: Crump, Thomas Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cupper (open access)

Cotton-Cupper

Patent for improvements in the type of equipment known as cotton cupers.
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Wilder, Theodore C. & Wilder, Atwood, E.
System: The Portal to Texas History