Automatic Alarm for Stem-Boilers. (open access)

Automatic Alarm for Stem-Boilers.

Patent for a new and useful automatic alarm for steam boilers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Prencel, Anthony M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "may be detached and used independent of the frame or carriage; also, that the tongue or pole may be detached and removed from the axle, and such axle, together with the bolster and hounds, may be applied to and used with the farm or other wagon. Thus by means of the attachments described a farmer can, by providing himself [or herself] with the pole and the attachments thereto . . . readily convert his [or her] ordinary walking plow into a wheel-plow by the aid of the hind wheels, axle, and hounds of his [or her] ordinary farm-wagon" (lines 72-84).
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Green, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
News Drop, Issue 3, July 2023 (open access)

News Drop, Issue 3, July 2023

Quarterly newsletter of the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to programs, projects, and topics related to water management and conservation.
Date: July 2023
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.). Communications and Development Department
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Case. (open access)

Packing Case.

Patent for a new and improved packing-case. This design "relates to cases or cabinets for packing and transporting articles that are brittle and easily breakable, such as eggs, glassware, china, and the like; and it has for its object to provide a device or case containing a series of sub-compartments or boxes, each of which is provided with cells to receive and hold the individual articles to be packed, thus affording great security in transportation and convenience in handling and in exposing the articles for sale" (lines 8-18).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Moos, Henry Antonio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Hub (open access)

Spring Hub

Patent for a spring hub. This invention is for vehicle wheels to make cheap and quick repairs. Illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Krezdorn, Herman A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History