Boltless Rail-Joint (open access)

Boltless Rail-Joint

Patent for a rail joint designed without bolts. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Crawford, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Rail-Joint (open access)

Boltless Rail-Joint

Patent for a rail joint designed without bolts. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Crawford, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a content chopping device with an adjustable lever and cutters. The cotton chopper can be attached to different cultivator frames (farm equipment) and adjusted to chop or thin out different rows of cotton stalks (or other plants).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Adams, Joe B. & Miller, Lawrence M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller and Cutter. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Puller and Cutter.

Patent for a cotton stalk puller and cutter machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Hubert, John E. & Hubert, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brush Cylinder for Gins. (open access)

Brush Cylinder for Gins.

Patent for a brush cylinder for gins which "aims to provide novel and improved means for securing the brush sticks in place and for enabling them to be readily removed and replaced." (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Robertson, B.A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Hanger. (open access)

Door Hanger.

Patent for a car door hanger that will take the weight of the door off the supporting rollers and the track and apply a braking action to the track that will prevent the door from unnecessarily shifting. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Kinard, Chester E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin or Retainer. (open access)

Clothes Pin or Retainer.

Patent for a clothes pin, "preferably" made from non-corrosive wire, that can be moved along a clothesline while remaining clamped to laundry. It has the ability to hold clothing of varying thicknesses.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Tillman, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for clothes pin with illustration attached. This pin was created to allow ease shifting of clothes hanging from the clothe line. Additionally the clothes pin does not pinch the clothes it holds in place.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: McKinney, Arthur C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Clothes-Pin (open access)

Wire Clothes-Pin

Patent for an improvement in clothes pins where the pin is formed from one single piece of resilient wire.
Date: October 12, 1915
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Tillman, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lathe Attachment. (open access)

Lathe Attachment.

Patent for a jeweler's lathe attachment which holds jewelry without scratching it.
Date: July 25, 1911
Creator: Schultze, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel that does not wear down as quickly as those currently used and that better absorb shock. The text explains the different parts of the new wheel and why it is an improvement over current wheels.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Anderson, Lycurgus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel that "embodies a flexible tread and radially arranged springs for absorbing shocks and cushioning the yielding of the parts of said tread." (lines 10-13).
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Anderson, Lycurgus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel "which embodies a flexible tread and radially arranged springs for absorbing shocks and cushioning the yielding action of the parts of said tread" (lines 9-13).
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Anderson, Lycurgus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check. (open access)

Door-Check.

Patent for a door check with improvements to device operation and movement control, with illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Kinard, Chester E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Section Stalk Cutter (open access)

Multiple Section Stalk Cutter

Patent for a multiple section stalk cutter that comprises of a three-section stalk cutter.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Evans, Lucius S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading-Machine. (open access)

Grading-Machine.

Patent for a grading machine, this particular patent is designed for the use in building roads.
Date: December 8, 1914
Creator: Blevins, Samuel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading Apparatus. (open access)

Grading Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in grading apparatus to make it "comparatively simple and inexpensive in construction" (line 10) and readily adjustable.
Date: April 3, 1917
Creator: Anderson, Lycurgus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Setting Tool for Brads &c (open access)

Setting Tool for Brads &c

Patent for a setting tool for brads that allows them to be easily placed in position.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Price, Thomas Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rural-Mail-Delivery System. (open access)

Rural-Mail-Delivery System.

Patent for an improved system of delivering mail to inhabitants of rural areas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Clayton, Ira B. & Moore, Nealy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Washing Machine and Canner (open access)

Convertible Washing Machine and Canner

Patent for a machine that can be converted from a washing machine to a canner, and vice versa, very easily.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Williams, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History