Refuse-Crematory. (open access)

Refuse-Crematory.

Patent for an improvement to "crematories or furnaces for burning garbage and other matter" (lines 11-12) that has a combined furnace and garbage chamber with walls of fire-brick or tile.
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Risley, Ward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Singletree-hook and Trace-Securing Device. (open access)

Singletree-hook and Trace-Securing Device.

Patent for "singletree-hooks and trace-securing devices, the object being to provide a simple and easily-manipulated device of this character which may be readily attached to the ends of a singletree and will serve to hold the end of a trace in secure engagement with the end of the singletree" (lines 9-15) including illustration.
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: Robinson, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History