Burglar-Alarm (open access)

Burglar-Alarm

Patent for improvements in burglar alarms, with horns and sirens.
Date: March 8, 1921
Creator: Sefcik, Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Crushing Cotton-Bolls (open access)

Machine for Crushing Cotton-Bolls

Patent for a tool to improve cotton processing machines.
Date: February 8, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton press, which can be run with either wormed gearing or beveled gearing depending on the pressure desired to be exerted on the cotton.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Breihan, Frederick F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topper (open access)

Cotton-Topper

Patent for a cotton topper that can be used as an attachment for a wheeled cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Schwarz, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder. (open access)

Rein-Holder.

Patent for a device that holds reins at the front of a carriage.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: Palm, George William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for regulating the width of the furrow-slice of a "sulky" or "wheel" plow, with illustration.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Gauntt, Granville B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement and Lime. (open access)

Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement and Lime.

Patent for improvement in“the manufacture of hydraulic cement or lime form rotten or decomposed limestone” (lines 66-68).
Date: February 8, 1881
Creator: Dimelow, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang and Sulky Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Gang and Sulky Plows.

Patent for improvements in gang and sulky plows which "consists in an axle having the double crank of the transporting-wheel journaled upon the outer bend of said crank, working between the side beams of the plow-frame, and the connecting-rods pivoted, respectively, to the said bars and to the end and inner bend of said crank" (lines 17-23). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1878
Creator: McCormick, John Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History