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Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants. (open access)

Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.

Patent for a method of destroying ants by digging a pit beside a colony, filling the hole with combustible materials and poisons, placing a pipe through the hole and into the mound, and then setting the pit ablaze.
Date: October 28, 1873
Creator: Dulany, John J. & Dreyer, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Bridge. (open access)

Improved Bridge.

Patent for an invention that "is to provide certain improvements in the construction of bridges, whereby the parts thereof, of wood, may be readily removed for the substitution of others, when decayed or broken, without interfering with the use of the bridge or weakening it (lines 10-15)". The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1870
Creator: McDowell, H. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe. (open access)

Horseshoe.

Patent for horseshoes that can be attached to the horses' foot without nails.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Lainweber, Mary C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches. (open access)

Improvement in Railroad-Switches.

Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
Date: September 4, 1877
Creator: Harding, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for "an apparatus for exterminating cotton-worms by ejecting liquid poison upon the cotton-plants" (lines 6-8). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.
Date: October 13, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier (open access)

Drier

Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Rayner, Henry William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for an Insect-Exterminator. (open access)

Design for an Insect-Exterminator.

Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.
Date: April 11, 1899
Creator: Hightower, Elijah H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-seed to be forced through it" (lines 84-94).
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Andrew S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine. (open access)

Digging-Machine.

Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Holly, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Walker, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton and Corn Planter and Cultivator

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Date: April 11, 1883
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate (open access)

Crate

Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: McLeod, Norman J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Truck (open access)

Cotton Picker's Truck

Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Franek, Jakob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroad-Beds. (open access)

Construction of Railroad-Beds.

Patent for a railroad-bed design that is used to support railroad tracks.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Alley, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History