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Hand Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Hand Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for "improvements in hand fertilizer-distributers and seed-drills," (lines 19-20) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 30, 1891
Creator: Barbee, Napoleon B.
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
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a new and useful harrow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1899
Creator: Blount, Blanton E. & Guice, Benjamen R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow that has a new design for a "subsoil and harrow attachment to the ordinary break-plow" (lines 9-10).
Date: May 19, 1896
Creator: Bowers, Thomas M.
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
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
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
Washboard. (open access)

Washboard.

Patent for a new washboard with "simple durability, and cheap construction, . . . [which is] serviceable and efficient in its use" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Bush, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Scraper. (open access)

Dredging Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved dredging-scraper. This design "has for its object the production of a marine plow which shall serve to raise and remove obstructions and accumulations from the beds or channels of rivers, bays, harbors, and other water-courses; and the invention consists in a device for this purpose of novel construction . . . The plow, which is to be drawn over the bed of the water-course to be cleared—as, for instance, by drag chain or cable attached to a steamboat—operates to raise a few inches in depth of the deposit each time it passes over the bed or bottom of the water-course" (lines 9-22).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Coult, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters. (open access)

Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters.

Patent for a new means of controlling the waters. This design "is to remove or prevent the formation of sand-bars at the mouths of harbors elsewhere, calculated to obstruct navigation; also, to prevent the overflow of navigable rivers and the breaking of levees or destruction of jetties. [The] invention consists in a novel means of accomplishing these and other like ends by mechanical forces applied to increase the natural current or outflow of the navigable water toward its outlet or the ocean through the instrumentality of suitably located and anchored vessels provided with propelling devices" (lines 8-21).
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Coult, Joseph C.
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 Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.

Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed Bottom. (open access)

Spring Bed Bottom.

Patent for a new and improved spring bed-bottom. This design utilizes a new method of coiling the wire so that only one wire may be used to make up all of the springs. By moving diagonally from one end of one spring to the end of another, this design eliminates the possibility of losing any individual spring.
Date: October 18, 1881
Creator: Eichelberger, Henry. H. C. & Bruner, Hilary Wentz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tourist's Glass. (open access)

Tourist's Glass.

Patent for improvements to tourists' glasses, "intended for use to tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, minerologists, and analogous purposes" (lines 25-27) including illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
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
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a seed-planter, of a main frame having side beams, the standard secured midway between said beams at their forward ends, and provided at its lower end with a shovel and a presser located immediately in rear of said shovel, the hopper supported on said side beams, and having its planting mechanism arranged to drop the seed directly in the furrow formed by the shovel and presser, [and] wheel journaled in the side beams in rear of the planting mechanism" (lines 3-14).
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Gardner, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Gilbert, John W.
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
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
Garden Rake and Cultivator. (open access)

Garden Rake and Cultivator.

Patent for a garden rake and cultivator that can be adjust in various positions to do the gardening works for the growing plants.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Guice, Benjamin J. H.
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
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
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
Patent for Disk Drill (open access)

Patent for Disk Drill

Patent for disk drill.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History