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Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for a vacuum for cleaning cotton gins that attaches to the pneumatic elevators generally found in cotton gins.
Date:
April 9, 1907
Creator:
Sadler, Arthur E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Tanning
Patent for new and useful improvements in compounds for tanning, using water, four gallons, fluid extract of phytolacca or common poke root, quarter of an ounce, gum gambier, four pounds, and alum, one pound.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Burrows, Ira I
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Honey
Patent for an apparatus for extracting honey. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Avant, Leonidas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date:
September 9, 1902
Creator:
Hetherington, Sam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters
Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Agee, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Turning and Leveling Plow.
Patent for an improved combined turning and leveling plow.
Date:
February 9, 1901
Creator:
Collins, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Peschel, Otto J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Wilson County
Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Wilson County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Wilson County, Texas.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Lyman, W. S. & Schroeder, Frank C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Round Cotton-Bales.
Patent to improve automation for forming round cotton bales in baling presses, including illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Cagle, Carter M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Building Implement
Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Hall, Ed Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel-Lighting System.
Patent for a liquid fuel lighting system, which supplies a pilot light to lamps or stoves without using a separate torch to light them.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Burton, Arthur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful machine for the destruction of the Mexican cotton boll weevil and other insects, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Strobach, Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Body Construction
Patent for improvements to vehicle body construction, particularly corner-irons. The design of the product claims to be simple, economical, and provide a compact and firm joint for the vehicle body. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Dowling, Stonewall J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for machine "designed to be carried by a cultivator or mounted upon wheels and adapted to discharge the fumes of sulfur and other insecticides upon cotton and other plants to destroy the cotton-weevil, caterpillar, worms, and various other forms of insect life [and to] provide a construction which will insure a steady feed of the sulfur or other insecticide employed and thereby render the discharge of the fumes regular and of uniform strength" (lines 12-23).
Date:
April 10, 1899
Creator:
Passmore, Benjamin H. & May, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Light-Reflecting Device.
Patent for a simple and portable light reflecting device designed to be placed on top of a piano, organ, or other musical instrument. The device is designed to amplify light from a lamp or other lighting device and reflect it downward and backward onto an instrument's music board. The device also shades the eyes of a performer and allows music to be read without straining the eyes.
Date:
April 9, 1907
Creator:
Schelb, Peter Jay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Top.
Patent for a canvas top for a wagon that is attached to wooden bows and can be folded up into a seat rest when not in use.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Kelley, Harrall M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Mechanism
Patent for a variable speed mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Doebbeling, Almond J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tying Mechanism for Harvesters
Patent for a tying mechanism for harvesters. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Tilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Seat Brace
Patent for a vehicle seat brace. The invention is a brace for seats to sustain weight placed in the seat. Illustration included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Cool, Isaac W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Fountain
Patent for "improved means for supplying only a sufficient quantity of ink for immediate use, while at the same time securing a hermetical sealing of the ink within its reservoir, so as to prevent evaporation and thickening thereof" (lines 13-17).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Holden. Elbridge G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table
Patent for ironing table with capability of adjustable height and folding features, including illustrations.
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Witt, Silas Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table
Patent for "an ironing-table of this class which may be used independently of household furniture and like means of support and at the same time provide a construction whereby the board may be used independently of its supporting-stand" (lines 16-21).
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Perry, Charles Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Injector-Burner.
Patent for injector burner that provides rapid vaporization by maximum heating the walls of oil chamber and also has improved nozzle with oil outlet pipe. It has a detachable burner nozzle and maximum spread of flame is given by the burner-tip.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History