Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scissors or Shears. (open access)

Scissors or Shears.

Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Allison, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Motor. (open access)

Water-Motor.

Patent for a water motor that is operated by the current.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Gonzalez, José
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for "an improved insect destroyer" ... "embodying a fuel supply and a burner for the purpose of destroying insects brushed from plants beside which the device is traveling" (lines 9, 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Garner, William W. & Rush, Owen T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a stalk-cutter that employs rotating breaking members to uproot the stalk and cut it rather than simply cutting the stalk and leaving the roots underground.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Buchanan, Amos. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire. (open access)

Tire.

Patent for a cushioned tire which may be attached without special tools to an automobile wheel when the regular is flat or damaged. It can fold up for easy storage, and then attach to the wheel rim using hinges, rods, and sockets.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Price, James Bain
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Transplanter (open access)

Hand-Transplanter

Patent for a "manually operated device, adapted for the manipulation of small plants, during the transplanting of the same, and the thinning out of closely growing plants" (lines 9-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Thompson, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Making Machine. (open access)

Pipe-Making Machine.

Patent for pipe making machines in which "concrete, clay or shale is formed into pipe by a combined feeding and molding mechanism" (lines 17-19).
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Reese, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Cutlery. (open access)

Machine for Sharpening Cutlery.

Patent for machine for sharpening cutlery that clamps object to be sharpened in a moveable carrier in position to be reciprocated between abrading members.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Hunter, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History