Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-presses adapted for pressing cotton into bales including instructions and illustration.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Langill, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Sets (open access)

Improvement in Saw-Sets

Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Holton, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table. (open access)

Ironing-Table.

Patent for an improved folding ironing-table that has "its top pivoted to the longer of two pairs of legs, the shorter pair designed to hold a cross bar which is adapted to support the table top about midway its length, when the table is opened and set up for use" (lines 18-22).
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Coleman, Robert Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Axle (open access)

Lubricating Axle

Patent for a lubricating axle.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Birdwell, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Cart. (open access)

Mail-Cart.

Patent for a one-wheeled mail cart, which will not sink into muddy roads.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Wherry, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History