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
Type-Writing Machine. (open access)

Type-Writing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Wendelken, Frederick S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators. (open access)

Planter Attachment For Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planter attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Brock, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Billingsley, John
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
Repair-Tool For Wire Fences. (open access)

Repair-Tool For Wire Fences.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in repair tools for wire fences, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Major, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Plate. (open access)

Shoe-Plate.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shoe plates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Long, Francis F.
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
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
Railway Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Railway Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Sivley, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Friction-Clutch. (open access)

Friction-Clutch.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in friction clutches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for an improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Stevenson, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History