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Check-Line Buckle. (open access)

Check-Line Buckle.

Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Snell, David C. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Burran, William Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Brooks, John Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Spicer, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Motor (open access)

Churn-Motor

Patent for a spring motor intended to operate churns. It has a quality which allows it to be stopped or interrupted during its operation.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Murdock, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Parsley, Samuel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Parker, Francis H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool. (open access)

Combination Tool.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists in a combination-tool embodying in a single implement a nail and staple-puller, pinchers, nail-straightener, and wire-cutters, the device being more particularly designed for use in constructing, taking down, and resetting wire fencing" (lines 7-12).
Date: July 22, 1884
Creator: Beazley, James Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game-Board (open access)

Game-Board

Patent for "a game-board having a trough at its head and squared apertures near said head, and numbered cubical blocks adapted to be revolved in said apertures" (lines 18-21) and "has relation to games to be played on bowling-alleys or boards with balls" (lines 16-17) including illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Thompson, James Whiteford.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Attachment for Invalids. (open access)

Bed Attachment for Invalids.

Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 11, 1881
Creator: Brown, Joshua Perry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker (open access)

Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker

Patent for automatic circuit maker and breaker that automatically cuts off the circuit to electric lights. Also for automatically completing circuits to said lights at the proper time
Date: November 2, 1915
Creator: Scholl, Max
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Cut-Off (open access)

Automatic Water Cut-Off

Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Goodridge Wilson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Roller Bit. (open access)

Cross-Roller Bit.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in cross-roller bits. Invention relates to "improvements in rotary boring drills for use in drilling wells for water, oil or gas and has particular reference to drills of the so called cross roller type for use in hard formation."
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer. (open access)

Ice-Cream Freezer.

Patent for an improvement on ice cream freezer design in which casing an cream receptacles are mounted within the freezer unit. Special features include to agitate the cream receptacles as well as a mechanism keeping the freezing brine in constant circulation, resulting in an consistency in the quality and texture of the ice cream throughout.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Hedges, Harry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an adjustable cotton chopper which allows for the chopper to be set to different heights (vertically).
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Seamon, Albert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher to stretch regular wires or barbed wired for fencing. Illustrations included.
Date: February 20, 1908
Creator: Tyer, Sampson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs (open access)

Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs

Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a valve for suction and blower conduits. This particular device is designed for use in cotton ginneries and saw mills.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Guice, Bengamen R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Lynn, John McKinzie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loading Apparatus (open access)

Loading Apparatus

Patent for a loading apparatus that uses flexing sections that open and closes. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Lipscomb, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truss. (open access)

Truss.

Patent for a new and improved truss for relieving or supporting hernia, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: Oliver, Zebulon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters. (open access)

Improvement in Spark-Arresters.

Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date: April 25, 1876
Creator: Liscow, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.

Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: De Force, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters (open access)

Improvement in Seed Planters

Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date: February 25, 1873
Creator: Friday, Reuben
System: The Portal to Texas History