Coupling (open access)

Coupling

Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date: April 28, 1908
Creator: Brandt, Olof Nelson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Winding Machine. (open access)

Cloth-Winding Machine.

Patent for a cloth winding machine, which measures cloth for cutting and then winds the rest of the bolt of cloth back up.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Blythe, Edward Willey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Jar. (open access)

Fruit Jar.

Patent for a new and improved fruit jar. This design consists, "with a jar having an inwardly-curved upper end and a removable bottom portion, of a series of projections at the base of the said curved portion, and a perforated plate having notches formed in its periphery which register with the said projections which when turned rest thereon" (lines 3-10).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Vogt, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 1 (open access)

Occurrence, Availability and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 1

Report on the quality and availability of ground water in the cretaceous aquifers of north-central Texas. Includes maps, hydrographs, rainfall data, pumpage, and more.
Date: April 1982
Creator: Nordstrom, Phillip L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clod-Crusher (open access)

Clod-Crusher

This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Weems, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Top. (open access)

Wagon-Top.

Patent for improvements in wagon-bodies by providing "a simple and effective means for tightening the canvas covering over the bows of wagon or other vehicle-bodies” (lines 17-19), includes illustration.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: James, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener. (open access)

Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "the combination of the disks or sections connected by the central bar, the oppositely-pointing lever-arms, the transverse pin fitting into corresponding openings in the disks or sections on one side of the central bar, the locking-pin adapted to fit into any two corresponding openings of the concentric series of openings made in the disks, and a rope or similar device connecting the wire to be stretched with the disks and their connections" (lines 93-103).
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Boyd, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky Plows (open access)

Improvement in Sulky Plows

Patent for the improvement of sully plows by regulating the depth of furrow.
Date: April 5, 1870
Creator: Boyd, John G. & Bailey, Allen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers. (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
Date: April 18, 1876
Creator: Andrews, Henry K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Switch (open access)

Telephone-Switch

Patent for a telephone switch. "This invention relates to switches for telephone and more particularly to shifting devices for short-circuiting certain classes of lines, and the object is to provide a system of cutting off communication in what are called 'party' lines" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Mount, Timothy S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like (open access)

Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like

Patent for a balancing device for cultivators or the like.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Dwight, Frances M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale (open access)

Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale

Patent for automatic computing and weighing scale.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Mount, Timothy S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal. (open access)

Electric Railway-Signal.

Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding Saddle. (open access)

Riding Saddle.

Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "relates especially to devices intended for use in coupling or connecting girths to saddles in stock countries or elsewhere where it is desirable to quickly adjust the saddle onto a horse . . . in drawing [a] strap to tighten the girth the inner portion, by reason of the friction of the parts passing through the rings, becomes rolled or creased up and straightened out, and loosens the girth in a short time . . . [the] invention seeks to overcome [these] objections" (lines 12-36).
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Newman, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for improvements in washing-machines known as “roller and bed and it consists of a rubber-bed adapted to operate in conjunction with a rotatory rubber…….the bed being regulated by tightening screw-nuts upon the hooks which connect the springs with the end walls of said casing.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Wood, Commodore R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History