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Back-Band Hook. (open access)

Back-Band Hook.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in back band hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1898
Creator: Lynch, John Elbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for an improvement to machinery to wind fibrous materials (e.g., cotton) into cylindrical bales that does not use a core or fixed horizontal rollers.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Ross, William Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bin-Measuring Apparatus (open access)

Bin-Measuring Apparatus

Patent for a bin measuring apparatus for weighing dry products for sale quickly and accurately.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Duke, Joseph S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Patent for woll weevil destroyer that is an attachment that can be applied to the frame and beams of a cultivator and may knock weevil and insects from plants standing in a row.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Young, Troy W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for a new design to capture and exterminate Boll-Weevils; includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 22, 1916
Creator: Riewe, Fridrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for an air suctioning instrument that exterminates boll-weevil and other insects that infest cotton crops. Illustrations included.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Goar, Robert Keith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calf Weaner. (open access)

Calf Weaner.

Patent for a new and improved calf weaner. This design consists in "a strap, ring, or belt surrounding the muzzle of the calf or other animal, and attached permanently by means of head-stall straps or other suitable-devices, the muzzle-ring being provided with radiating blunt-pointed wires of suitable length, whereby the calf is prevented from reaching the teat, and the mother, being irritated or titillated by the projecting wires, repulses the attempts of the animal to suckle" (lines 18-27).
Date: June 16, 1885
Creator: Evans, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the draw-head, the trip-block pivoted on the upper side of the same, the trigger secured to the upper side of the draw-head, and the spring bearing on the trip-block" (lines 82-86).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Woolsey, Charles Alexander & Woolsey, William Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. This invention is for use with railways to prevent passage of stock over the tracks. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Jungman, Leo A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor. (open access)

Churn Motor.

Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a wheel or disk having a toothed periphery and provided with a broad friction-flange, or a disk at right angles to the former, bearing against its friction-flange, and having studs engaging its teeth . . . [also] [i]n a churn-motor, the combination, with the box or body of the cover, having uprights, [a] shaft having [a] crank, disk having teeth and [a] flange, and the vertical shaft having [a] disk, provided with studs" (lines 67-77).
Date: October 3, 1882
Creator: May, Benjamin Cary
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Attachment For Cultivators (open access)

Cotton Attachment For Cultivators

Patent for a cotton attachment for cultivators. This invention allows for the attachment to any normal cultivator of cotton attachment to cultivate cotton. Illustration included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Willis, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Cotton-Chopping Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Smith, Charles F. & Smith, Clyde D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Gin Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Gin Feeder

Patent for cotton cleaner and gin feeder. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Gooch, James Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter (open access)

Cotton-Planter

Patent for "a device which shall be simple in construction and by meansof which the planting of the seed may be performed in an even and regular manner" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Cook, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling-Frame for Planters. (open access)

Coupling-Frame for Planters.

Patent for a coupling frame for planters for attaching two planters together.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Barkley, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Ross, Edgar L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cylinder for Cotton-Gins (open access)

Cylinder for Cotton-Gins

Patent for a cylinder for cotton-gins in which the cylinder has teeth that are "secured to the project from the periphery of the disk" (lines 17-18).
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flour Bin and Sifter. (open access)

Flour Bin and Sifter.

Patent for a new and improved flour bin and sifter. This design consists in "[a] bin having sleeves secured thereto at opposite sides and removable screening and sifting mechanism provided with similar sleeves, and two-prong pins engaging said sleeves for connecting the sifting and screening mechanism to the bin, the said pins being arranged with their heads in opposite directions" (lines 20-27).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: McClellan, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow designed to cultivate only one row of crops at a time. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Arnold, Jesse E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table. (open access)

Ironing-Table.

Patent for a new ironing table that folds into a compact form. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1900
Creator: Beacham, John Brandon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad. (open access)

Knee-Pad.

Patent for a knee-pad that is meant to protect cotton-pickers as they crawl in uncomfortable areas. The knee-pads are made up of a concave oval made from leather, metal, or another strong material, with cloth attached to the base and edges of the oval. Straps go around the cloth and around the leg to hold it in place.
Date: July 7, 1896
Creator: Fergusson, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Destroying Cotton Boll Weevils (open access)

Machine for Destroying Cotton Boll Weevils

Patent for a machine that destroys cotton boll weevils. Illustration included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Riewe, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Heater, Strainer, and Separator (open access)

Oil Heater, Strainer, and Separator

Patent for purifying oil by removing all impurities. It is meant to prepare the oil for fuel burning purposes.
Date: August 26, 1902
Creator: Burrow, Edgar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pen Holder. (open access)

Pen Holder.

Patent for a new and improved pen holder. This design "is to provide a pen holder of simple construction that may be easily held between the fingers without cramping the same, that will hold the pen in such a position in relation to the eye as to enable the writer to write well, and that will be adapted to hands of various sizes. To this end [the] invention consists of a curved flat holder having a shank projecting from the end thereof, to which a pen may be attached, said shank being nearly parallel with the straight portion of the holder, and in line with the eye when held in position for writing" (lines 9-22).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: Palmer, Joshua C.
System: The Portal to Texas History