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Agricultural Implement. (open access)

Agricultural Implement.

Patent for "the production of simple and inexpensive means whereby the ordinary farming implements--such as plows, cultivators, and the like--may be readily convert to the sulky or wheeled type." (line 11-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Cornelison, Jesse U.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires. (open access)

Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.

Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Pyeatt, Jessie Newton.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bell-Ringer. (open access)

Bell-Ringer.

Patent for a bell ringer for use in locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 15, 1891
Creator: Baker, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Tightener (open access)

Belt-Tightener

Patent for an improvement in belt fasteners, "especially adapted for use in connection with the running belts of planning, sizing, matching, molding and like machines" (lines 10-12) so that belts may be adjusted to tighten or loosen easily.
Date: January 3, 1893
Creator: Noble, John B. & Hensley, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for a boll-weevil exterminator comprised of a wheeled frame with a tank containing insect poison and a means to gradually distribute the poison through a field. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1914
Creator: Griffin, Willis F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy Bow Strings Attachment (open access)

Buggy Bow Strings Attachment

Patent for improvements to buggy transportation carts. These improvements are primarily to prevent bending and breakage.
Date: July 12, 1905
Creator: Johnson, George A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. The invention has "relation to improved means for adjusting the wheels laterally to provide for increasing or diminishing the width of the rows" (lines 13-16).
Date: August 16, 1898
Creator: Kile, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin (open access)

Cotton-Gin

Patent for a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: James, Walter W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Spray (open access)

Cotton Spray

Patent for Cotton Spray. "The present invention relates to spraying devices for destroying insect life which infests plants. The device is primarily intended for spraying cotton plants, and is so constructed and arranged as to travel over the plants, and to spray the said plants from opposite sides" (lines 8-15).
Date: September 27, 1912
Creator: Walker, Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Beam Adjustor (open access)

Cultivator-Beam Adjustor

Patent for "beam adjustment for cultivators" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Hanke, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Damper Regulator For Stoves (open access)

Damper Regulator For Stoves

Patent for a damper regulator for stoves. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Reed, Jesse R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow-Scraper. (open access)

Disk Plow-Scraper.

Patent for a disk plow scraper.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Shackelford, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Fence-Wire Stretcher.

Patent for an efficient, compact, and durable fence-wire stretcher that works on any size fence-post. It is an "easily and quickly applied means for clamping and drawing together the ends of a broken fence-wire" (lines 14-16).
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Day, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for improvements in gates, including illustrations.
Date: October 28, 1890
Creator: Austin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch. (open access)

Gate Latch.

Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists in "the rings loosely suspended on opposite sides of a central line, levers extended past such central line, and having their inner ends engaged with the rings on the opposite sides of the center from the handle ends, and partition-plates interposed between such levers and the rings past which they are extended" (lines 79-86).
Date: November 15, 1887
Creator: Charleville, George William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grate. (open access)

Grate.

Patent for a grate meant for use in train boilers that can "conveniently dump part of the burning fuel in one end of the firebox" (lines 10-11).
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Baker, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Tonic. (open access)

Hair-Tonic.

Patent for improvements in “a compound for the removal and prevention of dandruff;” (lines 7-8) formula of the compound is listed and instructions on how to mix the compound are included. No illustration.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Fraser, Samuel T.; Gilliland, William E. & Wilson, David J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Bed. (open access)

Hanging Bed.

Patent for improvements in hanging or hidden beds by having “hangers pivoted at their upper ends to fixed supports and having upwardly-opening angular hooks at their lower ends, of a bed-frame, legs pivoted to the ends of the end bars thereof, pitman-rods extending inwardly from said legs, a piece to whose ends said rods are connected, an outward projection between the ends of said piece detachably engaging and closely fitting one of said hooks, and a pivot passing through the projection and piece and into the end bar, as and for the purpose herein before set forth.” (Page 2, lines 26-36) Illustration is included.
Date: November 24, 1891
Creator: Buell, Will M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for improvements in harrows which can be “adapted to be reversed for pulverizing and leveling the surface traversed, to avoid evaporation as far as possible, and place the ground in the best condition for the travel of harvesters and other machines in gathering crops” (lines 9-14), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Day, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvesting Apparatus (open access)

Harvesting Apparatus

Patent for a harvesting apparatus.This invention is to "provide an effective apparatus of this character which may be operated with the minimum amount of power" (line 9-13). Illustrations included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Russell, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Stretching Wire-Fence Strands. (open access)

Implement for Stretching Wire-Fence Strands.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in implements for stretching wire-fence strands.
Date: June 21, 1898
Creator: Neeb, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal Adjusting Device (open access)

Journal Adjusting Device

Patent for journal adjusting device. Illustration included.
Date: October 25, 1904
Creator: Daniel, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lever Mechanism for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Lever Mechanism for Baling-Presses.

Patent for new and improved lever mechanisms specifically for hand baling presses to increase the amount of pressure exerted on the material being baled in a short stroke.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Swan, George B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design consists in "[a] nut-lock key having a body or wedge portion and a head, and having such head provided at its inner edge with flanges or extensions, the inner edges of the flanges or extensions being separated from the body" (lines 70-74).
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History