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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
Patent for a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
James, Walter W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wire Tightener
Patent for new and improved construction of wire tightener allows for post in place while wire is being fastened.
Date:
July 28, 1900
Creator:
Short, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire tighteners. This design "consists in features of construction and novel combinations of parts in a wire tightening device for repairing wire fences and attaching wires to fence-posts" (line 13-16).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Short, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tug.
Patent for a new and improved hame tug. This design consists in "the carrier . . . adapted for connection with the belly and back bands, constructed with a recess for the spring and provided with guides or ways for the tug-bar, such guides or ways leading forward and back from the spring-recess, whereby the tug-bar may extend entirely through and beyond the opposite ends of the spring-receiving recess, combined with the tug-bar and the spring" (lines 68-77).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design features "the construction and combination of parts whereby the spokes may be adjusted radially outward, and also forced tightly around the axle-box, to compensate for shrinkage" (lines 11-15).
Date:
October 19, 1880
Creator:
French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Tool
Patent for tool "which may be used for various purposes in connnection with wire fences" (lines 16-17) including an illustration.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Neeb, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Yoke for Connecting Animals.
Patent for a new improvements in animal yoking. Patent for "a new and improved yoking or coupling for connecting two animals together when grazing which allows automatic disconnection in case either of the animals gets a foreleg over the coupling" (lines 8-12) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new animal yoking design, including illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1888
Creator:
Carmichael, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Hub.
Patent for a new and improved wheel-hub. This design "relates to that class of wheel-hubs which are made up of several parts in order that they may be cast in metal; and the object of the invention is to adapt the mortise-piece of the hub to be cast independently of the flanges, to form a positive clamp for the shoulders, and the protect the bearings from sand" (lines 8-15).
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for a trap. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
McEachern, John Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark and Dust Arrester for Cars
Patent for prevention of sparks and dust from entering vehicles.
Date:
September 4, 1900
Creator:
Stanley, May
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the loop-formed nut-locking device and the plate to which it is hinged, of the supplementary locking device, consisting of a wire or rod having one end bent at right angles and embracing the hinge of the main device and its other end provided with a hook to receive the side bar of the main device" (lines 37-44).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Leiby, Isaac F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "is an improvement in that class of nut-locks in which so-called 'jam-nuts' are turned up on the bolt against the nut to be locked; and the present invention lies, mainly, in the particular construction of the end or ends of the thread of the locking nut or washer by which to more securely and effectually lock the nut in place on the bolt" (lines 8-15).
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Terry, David C. & Maltby, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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