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Boll-Weevil Exterminator.
Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date:
June 11, 1918
Creator:
Stubs, Orace Virgil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for a gate that can be opened or closed from a remote point, and can be locked with a latch. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Rogers, Frederick S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Seed-Planter.
Patent for an improvement in hand-seed planters, designed especially for cotton-seed. The seeds are spit out the bottom through a series of springs, pins, and plungers.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Merwin, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hinge-Gainer.
Patent for a hinge-gainer related to "certain improvements in devices of that class employed for cutting a gain or mortise in a door-jam or door for the reception of a hinge. The object of the invention is to provide an improved machine or tool in which all the parts may be readily and accurately adjusted to cut recesses of different width, height, and depth" (Lines 8-16).
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Ward, Richard Bryant.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber.
Patent for shock absorbers the permit bodily movement on one of the parts to which these devices are usually connected in a vehicle.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Rife, Stanford Walton
System:
The Portal to Texas History