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Stalk-Cutter Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter Attachment for Plows.

Patent for "stalk cutting attachment for plows" (line 10), particularly for chopping cotton stalks.
Date: March 17, 1914
Creator: Lancaster, Eanester W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed or Douche Pan. (open access)

Bed or Douche Pan.

Patent for improvements in bed or douche pans, in which it will not spill easily and is easy to clean. Illustration is included.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Williams, Bettie C. & Scott, Arthur C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Animal-Trap and Chicken-Coop. (open access)

Combined Animal-Trap and Chicken-Coop.

Patent for a combined animal trap and chicken coop, which has a compartment attached to the coop that is a trap for rats and other animals.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Moore, Henry Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoe Attachment (open access)

Hoe Attachment

Patent for a blade attachment to a hoe. Illustration included.
Date: October 17, 1905
Creator: Garner, Samuel Jake
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking Tool (open access)

Wireworking Tool

Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Dickey, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter. (open access)

Seed-Planter.

Patent for a walking seed-planter that has a wheel which is hooked up to a mechanism that lets seed out when the wheel is turned. The wheel is turned when the machine is walked. The mechanism that lets seed out is a rotary seed-plate and a series of gears, bolts, and belts.
Date: March 17, 1896
Creator: McKee, Francis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester-Platform and Carrier. (open access)

Harvester-Platform and Carrier.

Patent for a harvester-platform and carrier that carries forward and elevates the grain. It has toothed bars, a framed, a crank-shaft that is connected to the toothed bars, a cross-rod loosely connected to the crank-shaft, and it is pivotally mounted on grain.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Compton, Silas T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Working Machine. (open access)

Wood-Working Machine.

Patent for improvements in wood-working machine by using a combination of a toothed bar, a retractable slotted bar, a weight attached to the frame and a revolving wheel. With each single revolution of the drive-wheel, the slotted "bar is fed forward the distance of one tooth, and thus the cutter is gradually embedded in the material being operated upon at the same time it is rotated at a high rate of speed," (lines 94-97) illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Walton, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine. (open access)

Type-Writing Machine.

Patent for improvements in type-writers by compactly arranged many parts together, such as the sliding block, the vibrating plate, the feed-roller and etc..., "and in which the work can at all times be viewed by the operator. The printing is accomplished on a flat surface... new sheets thus saved,” (p. 4, lines 111-118). Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1891
Creator: Pierce, Jesse W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the beam, the parallel horizontal arms pivoted to the top and bottom of the beam and projecting beyond the sides of the same, the vertically-slotted brackets secured between the beams at the ends of the same, the cultivator-beams arranged between the upper and lower horizontal arms, and the securing bolts inserted transversely through the beams and the slots of the brackets" (lines 59-68).
Date: December 17, 1889
Creator: Walton, Sam Houston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Cooler. (open access)

Water Cooler.

Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with an outer casing, a central ice-receptacle having a perforated bottom, a water reservoir surrounding the ice-receptacle, provided with a packing of filtering material in the bottom, of an auxiliary reserve held beneath the ice-receptacle and main reservoir and connected with the latter by a series of tubes, and a tank in the bottom of the casing surrounding said auxiliary reserve adapted to receive the drip from the ice" (lines 85-95).
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Glück, Solomon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Corn-Shellers. (open access)

Improvements in Corn-Shellers.

Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Creekmore, Hiram C.
System: The Portal to Texas History