Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Simons, Silas C.; Clark, Samuel H. & Clark, Louther M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Blacking Brush and Blacking Box Holder. (open access)

Combined Blacking Brush and Blacking Box Holder.

Patent for a new and improved combination blacking brush and blacking box holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a blacking brush, of a swinging frame held on the back of the brush, and of devices for holding a blacking-box loosely, so as to be adapted to be rotated in the said swinging frame" (lines 82-86).
Date: April 3, 1883
Creator: Wood, Edmund Lorenzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration inlcuded.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Montgomery, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hobble-Arch for Cultivators. (open access)

Hobble-Arch for Cultivators.

Patent for a new hobble arch that laterally adjusts shovel beams of cultivators without stripping shaft threads.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Rutledge, Robert P.; Boland, Randsome G. & Devault, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soldering-Iron (open access)

Soldering-Iron

Patent for a soldering-iron, which is used to feed a "molten solder directly to the point of the iron," and to keep the flow steady.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Rodger, Don E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Planter. (open access)

Peanut Planter.

Patent for improvements to peanut-planters in order to plant peanuts without removing or crushing the hulls.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Little, Thomas Dewitt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Harvester. (open access)

Peanut Harvester.

Patent for a "new and useful peanut harvester" (lines 9-10), with illustrations.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Erwin, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry and Animal Fumigating Device. (open access)

Poultry and Animal Fumigating Device.

Patent for a poultry and animal fumigating device that spreads the fumigating substance throughout the animals cage.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Graeffe, Ernst Frederich
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester. (open access)

Peanut-Harvester.

Patent for a new, mobile harvesting machine designed to uproot, clean, and pile agricultural products that grow underground, including illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Green, Zedekiah W., Sr. & Green, Zedekiah W., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History