Cotton-Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a cotton stalk cutter that cuts two rows at a time.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Leatherwood, Roy A. & Leatherwood, Charles F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder (open access)

Seeder

Patent for a new wheeled seeder design "especially intended for the planting of cottonseed and corn" (lines 14-16).
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversing Mechanism For Engines. (open access)

Reversing Mechanism For Engines.

Patent for improvements in "reversing mechanism for engines, where the operating lever may be supported in such a manner as to substantially eliminate lost motion, and where the reverse lever may be operated with greater convenience and facility." (lines 11-17).
Date: December 5, 1916
Creator: Wagner, Warren
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas-Generating Lamp. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas-Generating Lamp.

Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines (open access)

Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines

Patent for a device for adjusting sieves in threshing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Steelsmith, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and improved gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Schaefer, Henry P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire. (open access)

Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire.

Patent for a tool that tightens wires and takes up slack on wire fences. It also splices and joins wires together. The invention has "a novel construction whereby a loop is formed in the strand of wire which is to be tightened and the parts of such wire adjacent to the loop and brought into parallelism so that they may be intertwisted accurately and neatly" (lines 20-25). It also forms loops of different sizes in the wire.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G. & Embrey, Leonard B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Blankets (open access)

Improvement in Saddle-Blankets

Patent for improvement of saddle blankets through use of a layering of canvas and rubber. Illustrations of blanket in multiple profiles included.
Date: December 5, 1876
Creator: McCormick, John Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fabrication of Zirconium Alloys For Specific Zirconium Alloy Design Program (open access)

Fabrication of Zirconium Alloys For Specific Zirconium Alloy Design Program

The raw materials and fabrication procedures employed in preparing thirty two zirconium alloy compositions for evaluation as described in GEAP-3979 are reported. Considerations involved in the extension of reported laboratory procedures to larger scale production are discussed.
Date: December 5, 1962
Creator: Antony, K. C. & Jones, L. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the hoe, of a standard, fulcrumed to a hinged adjustable bar, and connected by mechanism[s] with the ground-wheel" (lines 77-80).
Date: December 5, 1882
Creator: Collins, Laura Ann & Graham, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for an inexpensive and simply constructed corn and cotton planter that has an "improved mechanism for transmitting motion from the drive-wheel to the seed-disk; to so construct said mechanism as to operate only when the planter is being advanced and to remain inoperative when being drawn backward; to provide for a change of speed for the seed-disk so as to plant close together or far apart as may be desired; and to provide a new and improved hood or protector for the gear connection between the drive-wheel and the power-transmitting mechanism, which hood may be readily cast and will preserve the mechanism at this point against the deleterious actions of dust and other gritty matter that would otherwise find its way therein" (lines 11-26).
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Burglin, Bernhard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders. (open access)

Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.

Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.
Date: December 5, 1871
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conduit Electric Railway. (open access)

Conduit Electric Railway.

Patent for an underground conduit electric railway meant to propel cars. The conduit can be drained and kept dry, and a trolley attachment protects the conduit from dirt and water as well.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: de Voe, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cook-Stove. (open access)

Cook-Stove.

Patent for a cook-stove, which has two ovens that can be used together or separately.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Turbeville, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chimney-Cowl. (open access)

Chimney-Cowl.

Patent for an elbow-shaped chimney cowl that is simple yet durable, which may be attached to chimneys of various sizes. It It has a vane that enables the cowl to turn and send smoke in the direction the wind is blowing. It also has a screen to cover the opening, which will prevent large sparks or partially burned materials from exiting the chimney.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Powell, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle. (open access)

Buckle.

Patent for a buckle meant for use with harnesses and "wherein the ordinary movable and hinged tongue is dispensed with, and a rigid stud or pointed projection is used in reversed positions at opposite ends of connecting loops" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Odom, Plesant W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seal. (open access)

Car-Seal.

Patent for a car seal, made of a long, thin, and narrow metallic strip. When it is looped through two parts of the car body, the ends can be pinned together with sealing irons. This car seal cannot be tampered with without visible evidence showing.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Lawler, Claude B.; Bryan, William A. & Keller, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Lubricator. (open access)

Axle-Lubricator.

Patent for an axle lubricator that continuously lubricates an axle through a hollow nut in the end of the hub bushing, and the oil cup can be refilled easily and without removing the wheel.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Miller, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Exchange System. (open access)

Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.

Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Serdinko, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Base-Ball Score-Card (open access)

Base-Ball Score-Card

Patent for a baseball score card that has spaces for putting the players name on the card from both teams on the same side.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Dealey, Walter A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Spring (open access)

Bed Spring

Patent for bed spring.
Date: December 5, 1882
Creator: Littell, J. Reed
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History