Coffee-Mill. (open access)

Coffee-Mill.

Patent for a coffee mill that utilizes an electric motor for power (grinding).
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Sligar, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Wagons. (open access)

Apparatus for Loading Wagons.

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for loading wagons. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform having the opening and the trap-doors, the fastening devices to secure the trap-doors when closed and to permit the same to open, and the counter-weights connected to the trap-doors" (lines 24-28).
Date: November 27, 1888
Creator: Bernard, Alfred Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for clothes pins made from non-oxidizable wire, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Buckley, John Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape. (open access)

Fire-Escape.

Patent for a fire escape consisting of a basket that goes up and down the building to evacuate people from the building.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Stuart, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History