Current-Motor. (open access)

Current-Motor.

Patent for a current motor, which allows a smaller amount of water to be used to generate power for factories, irrigation equipment, and pumping devices.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Brewer, Alden R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Strip (open access)

Door-Strip

Patent for a door strip for blocking air gaps below doors.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Valentine, Levi Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters (open access)

Cutting Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters

Patent for a cutting mechanism for corn harvesters that allows the stalks to be cut more effectively while the corn is being harvested.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow (open access)

Disk Plow

Patent for a disk plow. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Cox, Oscar McGruder
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher. (open access)

Horse-Detacher.

Patent for a horse detacher that is inexpensive to manufacture and easy to use.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Cummons, Clarence B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Front Rigging for Riding-Saddles. (open access)

Front Rigging for Riding-Saddles.

Patent for a rigging that is especially adapted for a swell fork tree, including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Graves, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch and Transmission Device. (open access)

Clutch and Transmission Device.

Patent for a clutch and transmission device for automobiles that "is simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, and which is thoroughly practical, reliable and efficient in use." (lines 31-33), including illustrations.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Hubbard, Adra M. & Hubbard, Oscar M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher. (open access)

Horse-Detacher.

Patent for an improved and less complicated horse-detacher featuring a new type of double tree, swingle tree, and breast yoke.
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Cummons, Clarence B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Automobile-Headlight (open access)

Dirigible Automobile-Headlight

Patent for a dirigible automobile headlight which turns with the front wheels of the vehicle in order to illuminate the path in the direction the vehicle is about to travel, including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Sears, Johnie W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cow-Yoke. (open access)

Cow-Yoke.

Patent for a cow-yoke "comprising a yoke formed in sections pivoted one to the other" with spurs included (inwardly) at the ends of these pivoted sections to "prevent the animal from poking his head through a wire fence".
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Parker, Abbot S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow. (open access)

Disk Plow.

Patent for a disk plow modification, which allows the disk to be self-sharpening and automatically release accumulated garbage.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hoffman, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for improvements on traction-engines to make steering easier especially around short curves, and to decrease the amount of "dead weight" (line 21) of the machine overall.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Cox, Oscar McGruder
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheeled Gang Plow (open access)

Wheeled Gang Plow

Patent for a wheeled gang plow. "This invention relates to improvements in motor drawn wheeled gang plows of the disk type" (lines 13-15). Illustrations included.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Weiler, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine (open access)

Traction-Engine

Patent for a traction engine that has a unique assemblage of the frame and body making it most efficient.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Claitor, Lilburn S. & Mahagan, Ross C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for traction engines used in farms that will make it easier to construct, make it less heavy, and cheaper to build.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: Roberts, Adrian J. & Wright, Wayne C., Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Packer for Corn-Harvesters. (open access)

Stalk-Packer for Corn-Harvesters.

Patent for a stalk packer for corn harvesters, which packs the corn stalks before binding occurs.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Silo (open access)

Portable Silo

Patent for a portable silo
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Wiesenborn, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heat Distributor (open access)

Heat Distributor

Patent for Heat Distributor
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Jueschke, Charles A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for a traction engine with less weight for better fuel economy and power.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: McGruder Cox, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milo-Maize and Kafir Corn Header (open access)

Milo-Maize and Kafir Corn Header

Patent for a corn header that uses vertically adjustable heading devices that allows for some flexibility of the heading device with one of the ground wheels of the machine.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Jackson, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine (open access)

Traction-Engine

Patent for a traction engine with more power in the driving shaft and reduced wasted space in the design.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Cox, Oscar McGruder
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine (open access)

Traction-Engine

Patent for a traction engine. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Cox, Bradford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Vehicle (open access)

Traction-Vehicle

Patent for a wind-powered traction vehicle for pulling farm equipment.
Date: April 23, 1912
Creator: Fletcher, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for a more shock-absorbent wheel that incorporates yielding spokes; includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Young, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History