Combined Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for an adapter to be added to corn and cotton planters to convert them from one to the other while still being fully functional.
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Knight, Thaddeus W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard for Horned Stock (open access)

Guard for Horned Stock

Patent for an attachment to be fitted to any horned animal to prevent it from going over, under, or through wire fences using hooks attached to the horns to hook the fence as the animal attempts to cross it. Hooks can be made to any length specification.
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Tackitt, Louis L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Tuning-Pin (open access)

Piano Tuning-Pin

Patent for a piano tuning pin that has "superior advantages and of a simple and effective construction and arrangement of parts, which will provide for a more accurate tuning of the piano with which the device is used and at the same time preserve the strings against breakage by avoiding the use of sharp corners" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Enos, Henry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Joint (open access)

Railway-Joint

Patent for improvements onto railway joints to "omit the declining surfaces of the fish-plate and to employ in conjunction with my other devices or wedges an ordinary fish-plate, whereby the invention may be applied to the joints of rails now in use any change whatever either to the fish-plates or the bolts" (lines 22-28).
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Greenwell, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Truck for Cars (open access)

Safety-Truck for Cars

Patent for safety trucks for railway cars to help prevent the derailment of cars.
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Moore, George Wash.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Water Heating and Purifying Apparatus. (open access)

Feed-Water Heating and Purifying Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in feed-water heating and purifying apparatus by “utilizing the heat of exhaust-steam from locomotive-cylinders, and the waste heat from the products of combustion in the combustion-chamber; or smoke-arch for heating and purifying the feed-water in transit to the locomotive-boiler.” (Lines 11-16) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1892
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Conveyers for Harvesters. (open access)

Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Conveyers for Harvesters.

Patent for the combination of parts in gear-shifting mechanisms in harvesters and binders, making construction cheaper and simpler. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1891
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for improvements in harrows, "so that any farmer who possesses a Georgia stock or ordinary plow-beam with its attached handles can purchase one of [these] improved harrows per se and without the exercise of any special mechanical knowledge or experience apply the harrow device or contrivance to the beam of such ordinary plow stock." (Lines 40-47) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow and Cultivator. (open access)

Harrow and Cultivator.

Patent for a combination harrow and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Apparatus. (open access)

Hoisting Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in hoisting apparatus by “employing two cables and two sheaves that one cable and one sheave operate to elevate the weight or object in an approximately-vertical plane, so as to avoid contact with any side obstruction, while the secondary cable can subsequently be slackened sufficiently to permit the traveling sheave of the hoisting-cable to run off in a lateral direction and carry with it the sheave of the slackened secondary cable, for the purpose of transferring the object or weight to a desired position out of the line of the approximately-vertical direction first given to it.” (Page 2, lines 4-16) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1892
Creator: Davis, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Swinging Gates. (open access)

Means for Operating Swinging Gates.

Patent "to simplify and improve the construction of means for opening and closing swinging gates," (lines 10 - 12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Rhodes, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for "a plow especially adapted to be used in turning the well-known black or stiff lands in the Western States," (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 2, 1891
Creator: Hill, David J.
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