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Pump-Operating Element for Wind-Wheels. (open access)

Pump-Operating Element for Wind-Wheels.

Patent for improvements on a windmill "pump-rod operating device in which the pump-rod and a wind-wheel-rod are connected by a toggle-joint" (lines 23-25), including illustrations.
Date: March 28, 1916
Creator: Taylor, John W.
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
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
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
Display Device (open access)

Display Device

Patent for improvements in display devices that displays apparel without taking up a lot of space and will be out of the way when not needed.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Frank, Henry L. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Extracting Automobiles from Mud, Sand, or Ditches (open access)

Device for Extracting Automobiles from Mud, Sand, or Ditches

Patent for a retractable device to lift and advance a vehicle over obstructions. The device can be operated from the drivers seat and can mover the vehicle forward or backward (p. 1, line 19-21).
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Nash, William A.
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
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
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment that serves as a substitution of a disk for a disk cultivator.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Rodgers, Virgil R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
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