Saddle-Press (open access)

Saddle-Press

Patent for a saddle press that can be adapted fit to any common cantle to more quickly paste a cover onto it. The saddle may also be moved while the press is in use.
Date: May 25, 1915
Creator: Wendorf, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines. (open access)

Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved quilting attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to provide a device . . . adapted to be adjustable in any manner desired over the leaf, table, or arm of a sewing-machine" (lines 14-17). It consists in "a standard supporting a track-bar, a bar swiveled to said hanger and having end journals, and curved end yokes or arms movably connected to said end journals of the latter bar and supporting-rollers, said curved end yokes or arms having the said bar connected to the central part of the upper portions of the same and open at their lower ends" (lines 15-24).
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Galloway, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a Plow
Date: November 25, 1913
Creator: Loika, Richard D. & Loika, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History