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Match-Box. (open access)

Match-Box.

Patent for a match box, which will dispense one match at a time.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Moore, David Cleveland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins (open access)

Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins

Patent for an air blast apparatus used for cleaning cotton gins. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: McDonald, Osmon W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Finder For Fireplaces (open access)

Finder For Fireplaces

Patent for a fender for fireplaces. Illustration included.
Date: July 25, 1905
Creator: Plummer, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Device (open access)

Cooling Device

Patent for a cooling device for milk. Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Cooper, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Carriage Seat and Couch (open access)

Combined Carriage Seat and Couch

Patent for a carriage seat and couch. Illustrations included.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Angel, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Glove. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Glove.

Patent for a cotton picking glove, which allows full movement of the fingers and has easily replaceable tips.
Date: May 18, 1909
Creator: Baggett, Neil J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish Trap (open access)

Fish Trap

Patent for a fish trap. Illustration included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Angel, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Reel Support (open access)

Detachable Reel Support

Patent for detachable reel support. "Invention aims to provide a new and novel form of support to be hereinafter more specifically referred to and which can be readily secured to and removed from a vehicle-wheel" (lines 10-15). Illustration included.
Date: August 2, 1904
Creator: Baker, Albert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow that can be adjusted to plow to different depths.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Rogers, Anderson Layne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Harrow. (open access)

Cultivator and Harrow.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cultivator and harrow. The cultivator beam has a v-shaped tooth, arms extending forward.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: White, William C. & Stevens, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle. (open access)

Riding-Saddle.

Patent for a durable, simple, and inexpensive riding-saddle. The seat, front, rear, and middle jockeys and cantle are made form one piece of leather. The rear quarter is laced to the cantle, and the saddle has a bag for storing articles during travel.
Date: November 17, 1896
Creator: Percifield, Clarence W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs. (open access)

Attachment for Pianos or Organs.

Patent for an attachment for pianos or organs that allows for the convenient movement of the instruments that does not damage the instrument or the building.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Carter, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Bedder and Planter. (open access)

Cotton Bedder and Planter.

Patent for improvements in cotton bedders and planters in which when the machine “is used for planting, the seeding mechanism will be in place and the plow-beams are placed near together. The plow upon beam A will open a drill to receive the seed from the spout which extends downwardly in rear of the plow.” (Lines 114-121) “When the machine is used for bedding, the plow-beams are opened, and the seed-planting mechanism may be removed or simply thrown out of gear.” (Lines 109-113) Illustration is included.
Date: May 26, 1891
Creator: Parris, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blacking Brush. (open access)

Blacking Brush.

Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design utilizes springs to move a blacking brush to and from a can of polish. This results in "evenness of wear of the bristles of the brush, economy of blacking, absence of spattering while extracting the blacking from the box, convenience in substituting the circular brush as a lid for the box in case of loss of the box-lid, and the saving of time in looking for a blacking-brush and a blacking-box separately" (lines 53-60).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Wood, Edmund Lorenzo.
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
Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for a device with a mechanism that will aid in soil preparation and efficiently distribute fertilizer over a field and prepare for the immediate planting of grain.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Duke, Luther H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Chicken-Coop. (open access)

Folding Chicken-Coop.

Patent for a simpler and less expensive chicken coop "capable of being compactly folded for shipping or storing and adapted to easily and quickly arranged for use" (lines 18-20), including illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Welty, Elbert E. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cover for Syrup-Pitchers (open access)

Cover for Syrup-Pitchers

Patent for a cream and syrup dispenser. The cap has a spring so that after use the pitchers orifice will be completely sealed.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Judia, George H. & Huey, B. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Peanut-Harvesters. (open access)

Gearing for Peanut-Harvesters.

Patent for an improved type of gearing for peanut harvesters, with illustrations.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Brummett, Sinclair H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile. (open access)

Automobile.

Patent for an automobile with a mechanism which may be extended to form a tent bed, or folded into a small compass. The folding bed of the automobile may be utilized to storm camp equipment when not used as a bed.
Date: January 4, 1921
Creator: Mackey, Franklin Orville
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire and Burglar Alarm. (open access)

Automatic Fire and Burglar Alarm.

Patent for automatic fire and burglar alarm. A cord extends from the casing of the alarm mechanism to a window. The alarm is triggered either by weight of a window opening or the cord is burned by fire.
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Mann, Oscar O. & Whitley, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for a device that can be attached to the draft tongue of an animal-drawn agricultural machine to equalize resistance and allow it to be drawn evenly in a straight line.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Butts, Jim P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gripping Device. (open access)

Gripping Device.

Patent for equipment for use in the drilling of wells to help with the placement of casing, pipes, etc. by holding it in place
Date: July 11, 1922
Creator: Moody, Joseph F.
System: The Portal to Texas History