Quilting-Machine. (open access)

Quilting-Machine.

Patent for a quilting-machine that is meant to "improve the construction of quilting attachments for sewing machines, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be capable of lateral vibrations, longitudinal movement, and a rotary motion, in order that any form of design may be worked" (lines 12-17).
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Click, Washington B. & Click, Isaac A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Augurs. (open access)

Improvement in Earth-Augurs.

Patent for a new auger design for "boring and excavating wells" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1877
Creator: Yarborough, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History