Tying Device for Hay-Bales or Packages. (open access)

Tying Device for Hay-Bales or Packages.

Patent for an automatic tying device for hay bales, while they are going through a hay press.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Leavitt, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tying Device for Hay-Balers (open access)

Tying Device for Hay-Balers

Patent for improvement to the former patent by the same creator for a tying device for hay-balers. These improvements increase productivity and efficiency of the previous tying device design.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Leavitt, William, H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Quilting-Frame and Ironing-Board (open access)

Combined Quilting-Frame and Ironing-Board

Patent for a quilting frame that can also be used as an ironing board. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Lowry, Moses M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the sill-beams, grooved . . . the trip-bars secured in said grooves and pivotally supported at one end, and connections between the opposite ends of the trip-bars and the gate" (lines 83-87).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Tipton, Phylander S.
System: The Portal to Texas History