Coop or Crate. (open access)

Coop or Crate.

Patent for crates or coops for poultry that are easily assembled and disassembled, pack tightly, and are cheap and lightweight.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: La Bauve, Odelon Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has relation to that class of wire-stretchers in which a drum is journaled in a frame and is provided with a ratchet-wheel at one end, and in which a lever is pivoted in the frame, which engages the ratchet-wheel, serving to revolve it, and a pawl engages the ratchet-wheel, so as to prevent it from revolving backward, the frame being provided with a wire-clamp, and a rope or chain upon the drum being also provided with a wire-clamp, so that by revolving the drum one end of the wire may be drawn toward the end of another wire" (lines 25-37).
Date: June 29, 1886
Creator: Menefee, Stephen Austin & Mullinax, Eli Stephens
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps. (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Patent for an improvements in animal traps. It is similar to a hook and proper for mouse and rat.
Date: June 10, 1879
Creator: Milby, Frank Whitson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pump. Illustration included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Shuit, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History