Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a combined cultivator and cotton-chopper, to "provide an improved cotton-chopping mechanism which is adapted to be combined with and operated in connection with a sulky-cultivator, whereby a growing crop of cotton may be plowed and chopped or hoed simultaneously" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 13, 1900
Creator: Blaschke, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a better support device than previous churns.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Hyland, George Tolifaro
System: The Portal to Texas History
CHUCK FOR COILING STUD-SPIRALS (open access)

CHUCK FOR COILING STUD-SPIRALS

Patent for a specially designed tool "to provide an improved chuck for jewelers' use and for coiling stud-spirals and the like" (lines 9-11).
Date: February 12, 1901
Creator: Uerckert, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp (open access)

Clamp

Patent for a clamp. This invention is used for pump-rods, well-tubes, and like implements. Illustration included.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Imhoff, Louis P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1899
Creator: Prinzing, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for a new and useful tire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1899
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a gate "used to guard thoroughfares on farms, passages into fields and for like purposes, and belongs to a class wherein two similar gates are together employed, and are pivoted to rock on a frame, so as to open a passage through said fame, or close the gate opening as occasion may require" (lines 10-16). The invention is easily opened and closed, has newly designed latches, and has counterbalances.
Date: February 12, 1895
Creator: Whittenberg, William B. & Hawkins, Augustus L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly Catcher (open access)

Fly Catcher

Patent for the fly catcher. This invention comprehends the provision of a fly trap embodying a chute through which livestock may pass and have flies that circulate around them being scared or brushed off of them and causing them to enter a trap. Illustrations are provided.
Date: March 12, 1918
Creator: Girvin, Fitzhugh B. & Brady, Charles P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Safe. (open access)

Match-Safe.

Patent for a match box that is watertight and easy to open and close.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Mitchell, Malcolm, E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a planter "especially designed for planting seed and preparing the ground in advance of the opener, so as to remove weeds, trash, and other foreign matter from the path of the shovel preparing the furrow to receive the seed." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Tinning, James D.
System: The Portal to Texas History