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Seed Planter and Marker. (open access)

Seed Planter and Marker.

Patent for seed planting and marking machines specifically for planting corn, cotton, or any other seeds required planting in rows. This device allows row planting without a check cord or line as it will drop seeds at regular and variable (adjustable) intervals and mark hills.
Date: February 21, 1922
Creator: Sprowl, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Hunter, Arthur G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Table. (open access)

Ironing Table.

Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design consists, "with the supporting-frame and hinged board, of the inclined bar pivoted to the under side of said board, the lever hinged at one end to the lower end of the bar and fulcrumed . . . to the under side of the cross-bar, and the treadle hinged to one bottom rail and passing under the other" (lines 75-82).
Date: October 21, 1890
Creator: Wagnon, Andrew W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake. (open access)

Wagon Brake.

Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n the brake-beams pivoted in the clamp, in combination with the bent rods, castings, brake-blocks, and lever" (lines 87-89).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Zellers, Robert Emanuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to that class of wire stretchers or tighteners which are adapted to be applied upon the strands of wire forming a fence, and are used to tighten or stretch the same by winding the strand about one end of the device and engaging the other end of the latter with the strand" ( lines 11-17).
Date: April 21, 1885
Creator: Irvine, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Brake Ratchet (open access)

Wagon-Brake Ratchet

Patent for new mode of applying brake-shoes to a wagon and improvement with the position of the brake level on a wagon.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Shipley, Jack J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ventilators. (open access)

Improvement in Ventilators.

Patent for improvement in ventilators which combines a bell-mouthed vane with white induction and black eduction pipes for the purpose of introducing fresh air and eliminating foul air from an enclosed area.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Moyer, Alexander L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.

Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date: November 21, 1876
Creator: Yarborough, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shell or Projectile. (open access)

Shell or Projectile.

Patent for a "shell or projectile for firing from large guns...which can be discharged from the gun without danger of the dynamite exploding from the shock incident to the projecting explosive" (lines 8-9, 11-14).
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Murphy, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Fan for Sewing-Machines

Patent for a fan for sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: May 21, 1912
Creator: Ownby, Albert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle-Stirrup. (open access)

Saddle-Stirrup.

Patent for saddle stirrup, with illustrations. The invention "relates to those stirrups which are provided with foot-pieces adapted to oscillate thereupon... and at the same time provide means whereby the foot-pieces can have limited universal movement" (lines 10-15).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Shellenberger, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Closing Cock or Faucet. (open access)

Self-Closing Cock or Faucet.

Patent for an improved self-closing cock or faucet that is made up of a pipe with an elongated chamber, a nozzle that is attached to the upper part of the pipe, an inner pipe within the chamber that has apertures in the upper part, a cylindrical valve in the inner pipe, a spring-actuated plunger-rod attached to the cylindrical valve, a handle attached to the plunger-rod, and a drop-valve that closes the lower end of the cylindrical valve.
Date: May 21, 1895
Creator: Murphy, George S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sign. (open access)

Sign.

Patent for signs, bulletin boards and other display apparatus; the purpose of this device is that display elements may be reversed from time to time to change announcement displayed.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Nowlin, Aubrey C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the beam having the downwardly and forwardly extending standard and foot, the seat-plate secured to the foot and having perforations, the arm or bracket extending laterally from the standard, and the share bolted to the seat-plate and having the landside and the moldboard bolted to the plate and arm and resting upon said plate and arm and upon the upper edges of the mold-board and landside" (lines 64-74).
Date: October 21, 1890
Creator: Stone, James Micajah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter. (open access)

Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.
Date: March 21, 1882
Creator: Vannoy, James Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot Adjuster (open access)

Cultivator Foot Adjuster

Patent for cultivator foot adjuster. This invention is an efficient method to adjust the angle of the cultivator foot piece. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Dickey, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Packer. (open access)

Cotton Packer.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-packer. This design "relates to an improved machine having for its object to convey the lint or cotton from the gin-house to the press, and to subject it to a preliminary compressing or packing process, the object being to dispense with the manual labor usually called into requisition for this purpose" (lines 24-30).
Date: October 21, 1884
Creator: Steele, Asa Maxey
System: The Portal to Texas History