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
Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer. (open access)

Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer.

Patent for a new and useful convertible churn and ice cream freezer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Everhard, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed (open access)

Cabinet-Bed

Patent for "a cheap and simple construction of bed of this class, adapted to be readily folded or unfolded and to provide means for automatically folding and unfolding the legs for supporting the foot of the bed-frame when said frame is raised or lowered" (lines 9-15)
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Hayton, John. W. & Swift, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-press. (open access)

Baling-press.

Patent for a baling press intended to work with hay, cotton and similar material, and form bales of many different sizes.
Date: June 18, 1897
Creator: Murphy, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "the staff-head having the slot . . . and opposite inside grooves, in combination with a dasher-stem head conforming to the recesses in the head and carrying a spring in an upper cavity thereof, a plunger having its toe resting upon said spring, and operative mechanism" (lines 77-83).
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Catchings, Thomas Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling-press that means "to provide a simple and efficient power for operating the plunger so constructed as to allow independent return movement of the plunger to avoid loss of time in the operation of the device" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Davis, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Motive-Power Machines (open access)

Attachment for Motive-Power Machines

Patent for an attachment for motors "designed to prevent the loss of leverage and power which ordinarily obtains in such motors and in all machinery where the power is taken from cranks, and also to overcome what is known as the dead-center, and thus to greatly increase the power of the machine to which the attachment is applied" (lines 12-18).
Date: June 21, 1892
Creator: Weaver, John L. & Brenke, Henry, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Table (open access)

Ironing Table

Patent for an ironing table. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Love, Willilam C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring. (open access)

Vehicle-Spring.

Patent for a vehicle spring with telescoping casings.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Pochyla, Adolph Arnold & King, Henry Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for regulating the width of the furrow-slice of a "sulky" or "wheel" plow, with illustration.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Gauntt, Granville B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-body having slots formed with an enlargement at their forward ends near the lower edge of the mold-board, and having a laterally-projecting lug upon the landside near the point, of a detachable share and point having inwardly-projecting headed studs for engaging the slots in the mold-board, and having a perforated landside flange fitting upon the lug at the landside of the body" (lines 64-73).
Date: June 30, 1885
Creator: Snow, Abner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the share having the keeper on the mold-board and the arm, the detachable point bearing against the outer side of the arm and having the tongue engaging the keeper, and the lever fulcrumed to the mold-board at a point between the keeper and landside, and having the short arm adapted to lap the joint between the point and mold-board and to engage the outer end of the tongue to lock the latter in the keeper" (lines 82-92).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Hyer, Robert Stewart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supplementary Vehicle-Seat. (open access)

Supplementary Vehicle-Seat.

Patent for a supplementary vehicle seat for buggies, which is easy to attach and remove and is durable.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Brehan, Frederick F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe. (open access)

Stovepipe.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stovepipes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 28, 1898
Creator: Riviere, Walter P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railroad (open access)

Elevated Railroad

Patent for "improvements in elevated railways; and the object of my invention is to produce an elevated-railway system which is comparatively cheap, which is absolutely safe, and in which the cars are arranged so that they ride very easily and can be readily adapted for both passenger and freight traffic" (lines 8-15).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Silo (open access)

Silo

Patent for a silo that is constructed in sections, making transport more efficient.
Date: June 15, 1920
Creator: Comer, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder and Cultivator. (open access)

Seeder and Cultivator.

Patent for "an arrangement whereby the usual corn and cotton planters are supplied with a preceding or furrow-opening plow." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Hester, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeding-Machine. (open access)

Seeding-Machine.

Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Seeding-Machines" (lines 5-6) the light draft interchangeable seeding-machine can be converted from a cotton-planter to a corn-planter, and vice versa. The invention is "compact, simple, and durable" (line 13)
Date: June 29, 1880
Creator: McCall, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator (open access)

Refrigerator

Patent for a refrigerator. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Bunnell, Marcellus Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a harrow that has "teeth bars or beams and teeth [that] may be readily cleared of rubbish and other obstacles which tend to clog the teeth and interfere with the efficient working of the harrow" (lines 16-20).
Date: June 16, 1895
Creator: Faris, John Wesly
System: The Portal to Texas History
Derailing Frog (open access)

Derailing Frog

Patent for a derailing frog. Illustration included.
Date: June 20, 1905
Creator: Bain, William Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History