Stock-Loader. (open access)

Stock-Loader.

Patent for a stock-loader that loads cattle onto locomotive cars and does not use a gangway. It is a "movable floor or platform which, by means of suitable mechanism, is moved toward the car, thus carrying the stock thereinto whether they face in the direction of movement or not, and without effort upon their part" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Rotzien, Christopher & Arnold, Philip
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Attachment. (open access)

Plow-Attachment.

Patent for a turning plow attachment which prepares the soil to receive seed, whereby reducing labor.
Date: March 6, 1920
Creator: Miller, James Archie
System: The Portal to Texas History