Corn-Sheller. (open access)

Corn-Sheller.

Patent for improvement in corn-shellers; in which “it consists in a perforated casting provided with radial teeth or projections which extend toward its center and which is to be secured to a support having an opening through it, combined with a double-ended handle which has an opening through its center and teeth projecting from the opening.” (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Bander, Charles Bornet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling. (open access)

Thill-Coupling.

Patent for carriage and wagon couplings, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1891
Creator: Tanner, David Wilmer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Auger. (open access)

Post Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-auger. This design "is to improve that class of post-augers whose blades are made adjustable so as to make large or small holes. They have ordinarily been adjusted by means of a bolt, nut, and slot in the blade; but the blades work out of correspondence with each other, the nuts becoming more or less loosened. [This design] dispense[s] with bolt, nut, and slot" (lines 15-23).
Date: October 22, 1889
Creator: Harris, Green Berry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for car-couplings.
Date: December 22, 1874
Creator: McCormick, Charles C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Wigley, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History