Improvement in Billiard-Tables. (open access)

Improvement in Billiard-Tables.

Patent for a design for a billiard table that can also be used as a Jenny-Lind table. Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Waldie, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton seed and corn planters which lists the design specifications.
Date: November 6, 1877
Creator: Palmero, Joseph Rafael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Buckles.

Patent for 'buckles for harness or other purposes, adapted for connection to a strap or billet without sewing." (lines 6-8)Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: November 25, 1879
Creator: Bugbee, George G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle. (open access)

Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design calls for "the rear side of the cross-piece [to be] provided with a recess . . . to receive the back of the tongue-joint, so that the latter shall not be in the way when the strap is to be passed between the cross-pieces . . . after being adjusted upon the tongues or studs" (lines 35-41).
Date: November 30, 1880
Creator: Bugbee, George Gooding
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Stock. (open access)

Plow Stock.

Patent for a new and improved plow-stock. This design "has for its object to provide an implement of peculiar novel construction, whereby the different forms of plowshares, shovels, or other cultivating implements or combinations of different cultivating instrumentalities may be varied, interchanged, and adjusted at will to suit the character of the soil, the nature of the crop, or the requirements of the occasion" (lines 8-16).
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Brooks, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Ward, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for a new and improved device within internal combustion engines "whereby water is converted into steam, and then delivered into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine" (lines 13-16). Includes illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Harwood, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History