Machine for Filing Gin Saws. (open access)

Machine for Filing Gin Saws.

Patent for a new and improved machine to sharpen the teeth of cotton gin saws. This design utilizes two bevel-faced wheels connected to a block between two arms that clamp the saw blade. The bevel-faced wheels sharpen the teeth of the blade, and the nuts and bolts of the frame allow for movement as well as tightening and loosening.
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: McAllister, Alexander F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Bagasse-Furnaces. (open access)

Improvement In Bagasse-Furnaces.

Patent for improvements in Bagasse Burners or Furnaces.
Date: April 17, 1878
Creator: Littlejohn, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signal. (open access)

Signal.

Patent for a railroad-signal that "moves automatically with the semaphore in an improved, simple and efficient manner" (lines 17-19).
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Ward, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Body-Bolster (open access)

Body-Bolster

Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Wahlert, Henry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spur Attachment For Stirrups (open access)

Spur Attachment For Stirrups

Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Poorter, Charles Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4199, Chapter 832 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4199, Chapter 832

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the Harrison County Court at Law.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Gear for Railway Cars (open access)

Draft-Gear for Railway Cars

Patent for a draft gear for railway cars that allows a simple and efficient means of repairs or substitutions of sills or beams that may be done without dissociating the draft bar so that a car may not be out of commission for a considerable length of time.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Moorman, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History