Apparatus For Cementing Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Cementing Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This device includes improvements that allow the machine's operators to control the movement and the position of the hoes of the cotton chopper.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Jezek, Anton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement inTables. (open access)

Improvement inTables.

Patent for improvement in tables which "consists in the arrangement and combination of parts that will be more fully described hereinafter, whereby the table can be taken apart, packed in a small compass for transportation, and then put together again by an inexperienced hand” (lines 11-17).
Date: November 19, 1878
Creator: Melcher, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer. (open access)

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved pest trap. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable fire chamber provided with a cover at its top, a pipe which passes through its side to admit a blast of air, a removable bottom, which is supported inside of the bottom of the chamber upon suitable supports, and a removable pipe through which the products of combustion are forced . . . when these parts are destroyed they have only to be replaced by new ones" (lines 14-28).
Date: November 20, 1883
Creator: Melcher, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weeding-Plow. (open access)

Weeding-Plow.

Patent for a weeding plow designed to remove weds and mellow the ground to assist with growing corn and cotton. It includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Prohaska, Melichar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Gumming Saws (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Gumming Saws

Patent for improvement in dressing and gumming saws, specifically saws used in a mill either circular or vertical. Patent includes labeled figure drawings and text descriptions.
Date: November 8, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for an "improvement in devices for destroying ants and burrowing animals of all kinds." (lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Melcher, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Rack (open access)

Hay Rack

Patent for hay rack.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Malcik, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for improvements of hay press to simplify construction and add locking device.
Date: August 29, 1900
Creator: Sherrer, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tent-Frame. (open access)

Tent-Frame.

Patent for a tent frame, which can be easily put together in the dark.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Huebner, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press (open access)

Hay-Press

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hay presses.
Date: November 22, 1887
Creator: Flato, Friderich W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-picking machines including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Trenks, Frederick F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon Holder. (open access)

Ribbon Holder.

Patent for a new and improved ribbon holder. This design consists in "[a] rotary ribbon-holder case made in sections having slots and arc-latches, and the removable rotary-spindles, having squared portions to engage the spools and projecting heads, formed with necks to engage the arc-latches and key-sets" (lines 70-75).
Date: November 6, 1883
Creator: Lane, Isaac Theophilus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Ditching-Machine. (open access)

Improved Ditching-Machine.

Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date: November 16, 1869
Creator: McGehee, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists, first, in the combination of an adjustable support which is pivoted to the side of the beam, and which has secured to its lower end a series of revolving arms which terminate in broad cutters, for cutting the sod as it is turned over by the mold-board as the plow is drawn along; second, in the revolving cutter, which runs along upon the land side and cuts the sod where the next furrow is to be cut, and thus takes the place of the usual colter, which runs in advance of the plow and cuts the sod just as it is about to be turned over" (lines 13-25).
Date: November 20, 1883
Creator: Pinter, Francis T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Ticket (open access)

Railroad Ticket

Patent for railroad ticket. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N. & Donaldson, Westbrook
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers

Patent for Improvements to cotton-sprinklers that provides "effective distribution of poisonous liquids upon cotton-plants, for the purpose of destroying the cotton-worm or other destructive insects." (lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: November 11, 1879
Creator: Schier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dividers or Compasses. (open access)

Dividers or Compasses.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dividers or compasses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Benes, Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post. (open access)

Design for a Fence-Post.

Design patent for a fence-post which consists of flanges at the edges of the post, with their openings, and the base-piece turned at right angles to the post.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Tabken, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells. (open access)

Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in devices for forcing water out of wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double Point for Plows. (open access)

Double Point for Plows.

Patent for a new and improved double point for plows. This design consists in "[t]he plow-point having the central rectangular bend at the back, the wings shelving outward, downward, and forward, the long parallel-sided end, the lateral angles, and the marginal edges inclined upward and toward each other, the said portion being substantially as long as the share-edge" (lines 71-77).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Schuster, Rudolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-chopper (open access)

Cotton-chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper mounted on wheels.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard F.
System: The Portal to Texas History