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Automatic Fish-Hook (open access)

Automatic Fish-Hook

Patent for a fish hook designed to catch the fish by its head when it takes the bait. Illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Timmons, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheeled Sectional Harrow. (open access)

Wheeled Sectional Harrow.

Patent for an improved wheeled section harrow with a simple construction that provides a way to raise and lower the harrow sections as needed, and improves construction of the truck carrying the harrow.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Mize, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a stalk cutter that is light but durable that cuts the stalks up small enough that they can be plowed under the field to enrich the soil for the next crop.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Cooper, Joseph P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Attachment for Bolly Cotton (open access)

Gin Attachment for Bolly Cotton

Patent for gin attachment for bolly cotton. This seeks to make the gin stands have automatic control and for disposing of hulls and waste products from the gin.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Becknell, George T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Gage. (open access)

Saw Gage.

Patent for saw gage "adapted for use in connection with hand saws where the same is to be employed in cutting kerfs." (Lines 10-13)
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Faires, Elisha J. & Stockburger, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Method and Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for "a method of and apparatus for treating seed cotton and compromises in its entirety a system of handling cotton as it comes from the field until it leaves the gin" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Thompson, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Advertising-Machine. (open access)

Display Advertising-Machine.

Patent for an advertising display that carries a number of large advertisement sheets that are revolved and held stationary to periodically display each advertisement in repeating succession.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Barnett, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Disk (open access)

Cultivator Disk

Patent for a cultivator disk. Illustration included.
Date: May 9, 1905
Creator: Harris, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Otenhouse, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History