Wagon-Brake. (open access)

Wagon-Brake.

Patent for improvements in automatically operated wagon-brakes using the combination of tongue, rods, hook, levers, spring and chains that connected with each other and secured beneath the wagon-bed to operate the wagon-brake. Illustration is included.
Date: August 25, 1891
Creator: Garrett, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garden Tile. (open access)

Garden Tile.

Patent for a new and improved garden tile. This design "is to provide a . . . garden-tile which can be used as a plant-protector or as a curbing for walks, &c. The invention consists in a tile having a semicircular or U-shaped cross-section and open at the bottom and provided on its top with one or more necks through which the plants can grow" (lines 7-15).
Date: May 25, 1886
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History