Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for "a simple, novel, and convenient frame capable of being attached to any pattern of sewing-machine and adapted to carry the top and lining of a quilt to the needle" (lines 12-15).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Mandeville, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester. (open access)

Spark-Arrester.

Patent related to a spark arrester with a superstructural frame that can be used for either traction engines or railway locomotives.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Taack, Ed Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Yoke. (open access)

Cattle-Yoke.

Patent for a cattle yoke which enables the yoke to be attached to a cow's head to prevent grazing from other side of the wire fence.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Carr, Jessie D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Invalid-Bed. (open access)

Invalid-Bed.

Patent for attachment to beds for invalids. This device allows the invalid to be raised or placed in the sitting position.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Anderson, Young R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad. (open access)

Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad.

Patent for Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad. "This invention relates to pads and particularly to a new, useful, simple and practical knee pad especially designed fo use by cotton pickers." (line 2)
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Boynton, Willie A. & Terrell, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History