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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
Corn-Harvesting Machine (open access)

Corn-Harvesting Machine

Patent for a corn harvesting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Binding Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters (open access)

Binding Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters

Patent for a binding mechanism for corn-harvesters. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Tilson, William H.
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
Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters. (open access)

Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters.

Patent for a cutting apparatus for a corn harvester, which allows the rotary wheel to be closer to the main driving shaft.
Date: January 7, 1908
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date: May 9, 1899
Creator: Ledbetter,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
Corn Harvesting Machine (open access)

Corn Harvesting Machine

Patent for a corn harvesting machine. "This invention relates to corn-harvesting machines of that class which are provided with cutting apparatus for severing stalks, with carrying apparatus for conveying the stalks in a standing or upright position to the point of discharge, with binding apparatus for tying the stalks into bundles" (lines 8-14). Illustration included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Tilson, William Henderson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters (open access)

Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters

Patent for a cutting apparatus for corn harvesters. This invention provides curved serrated blade mounted for rotation so as to sever stalks. Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tying Mechanism for Harvesters (open access)

Tying Mechanism for Harvesters

Patent for a tying mechanism for harvesters. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Tilson, William H.
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
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
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
Grass-Burning Device. (open access)

Grass-Burning Device.

Patent for improvements in grass burning devices in which “the grass may be safely burned on the prairies and the fire kept from spreading.” (Lines 16-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 1, 1898
Creator: Slaughter, George M. & Christian, Fred
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
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
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
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
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