Buggy-Top Support. (open access)

Buggy-Top Support.

Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Mason, Everett H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Compress. (open access)

Steam-Compress.

Patent for a simple, strong, durable, and powerful steam-powered compress for cotton bales that compresses them into standard size and density.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Bryant, William hodge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Point. (open access)

Plow-Point.

Patent for a plow-point that can be used on a shovel or spade plow. "it consists of an attachment which can be applied to the point of these plows and which will operate to more effectually divide the ground and allow the plow to cultivate the hardest and most refractory kinds of soil" (lines 10-15).
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Prentice, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History