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Sash Fastener (open access)

Sash Fastener

Patent for a window sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Clements, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Lock. (open access)

Sash-Lock.

Patent for a window sash lock, which holds the lower sash when opened in a locked position.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Culp, Willis H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder (open access)

Sash-Holder

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders," an invention which "aims to provide a sash-holder of simple construction for supporting a sash at any elevation and which will secure it when closed against being opened from the outside."
Date: November 13, 1900
Creator: Hardy, Isham B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Lock. (open access)

Sash-Lock.

Patent for sash-lock. This device is designed for locking a window sash at any given position. It may be applied to a window frame without damaging the frame or sash.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Clements, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Opening Plow (open access)

Seed-Opening Plow

Patent for a seed opening and planting plow. Illustrations included.
Date: November 19, 1912
Creator: Johnson, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heat-Producing Process. (open access)

Heat-Producing Process.

Patent for Improvements in Heat-Producing Processes by way of "process of producing heat and conserving heat..." for use in various types of furnaces (lines 9-10).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Bone, David R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Dewald, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that thins out rows of growing cotton plants by destroying the superfluous plants and leaving stands at the proper intervals, including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Copeland, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping Machine (open access)

Cotton Chopping Machine

Patent for a cotton chopping machine. This invention is used to thin cotton plants with revolving blades that cut and destroy plants. Illustrations included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Tucker, Samuel Houston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design represents "improvements in coupling railroad-cars where any of the ordinary drawheads requiring the use of the link and pin are used; and the object of [the] improvement is to make a complete, simple, and durable car-coupler. . . . by means of a strong adjustable drop ring or link and catch-pin" (lines 13-20).
Date: September 11, 1883
Creator: Garrett, Jackson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping Attachment For Cultivators (open access)

Cotton Chopping Attachment For Cultivators

Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Dewald, Louis & Dewald, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that can be used as a garden hoe. Illustrations included.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Weaver, John Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for a new and improved design concerning automatic car couplings that is novel in the some of its parts.
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Bullock, Henry Purnell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling that has a "simple construction which can be operated without going between the cars both in coupling and in uncoupling, and also to provide for adjusting the height of the coupler or draw head so that cars of different heights can be readily coupled" (lines 17-22).
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Duggan, Nicholas S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for improving the way that hay bales are tied and bound. This bale tie is an addition to a previous patent (number 152,138).
Date: June 16, 1874
Creator: Mangham, Josiah T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences.

Patent for a new improvement in apparatus for wiring picket-fences to hold the wires tight, including illustration.
Date: February 24, 1874
Creator: Parks, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a new cotton and corn planter, including illustrations.
Date: May 19, 1874
Creator: Griffith, William Harrison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows.

Patent for an improvement in subsoil plows to pulverize soils, including illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Mangham, Josiah T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funnel and Gage. (open access)

Funnel and Gage.

Patent for a funnel and gage with a mechanism used to indicate "when the proper amount of water has been inserted in the battery" (lines 14-15).
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Burkett, Joseph Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for improvements to pumps more specifically pumps used in windmills.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Pierson, Hiram W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Controlling Mechanism for Windmills. (open access)

Controlling Mechanism for Windmills.

Patent for the operation of a windmill pump that may be automatically controlled so that a constant supply of water will be maintained in the storage tank.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Bradford, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History