Cotton-Topper (open access)

Cotton-Topper

Patent for a cotton topper that can be used as an attachment for a wheeled cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Schwarz, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press used for baling hay and straw. Illustrations included.
Date: September 28, 1909
Creator: Guenzel, Paul A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Attachment (open access)

Automobile Attachment

Patent for an automobile attachment designed to utilize the power produced by motorized engines for various farming implements.
Date: September 23, 1919
Creator: Klima, J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topping Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Topping Machine.

Patent for improvement to cotton-topping machine to make growth compactly, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Palm, George William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator (open access)

Incubator

Patent for an incubator designed to maintain temperature automatically.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Kovar, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing. (open access)

Gearing.

Patent for a speed transmission device that simply and efficiently changes the gears in an automobile especially at fluctuating speeds.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Anderson, Bert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Exterminator (open access)

Insect Exterminator

Patent for an insect exterminator that removes insects from plants and then sprays a solution. Illustrations included.
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L. & Logan, Malcolm H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket Fixture. (open access)

Well Bucket Fixture.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket fixture. This design "is to provide for the ready opening of the valve for entrance into the bucket of water or other fluid, and the closing of the same when the same bucket has been sufficiently supplied; also securely to hold the parts together as against loosening in consequence of frequent usage; and it consists in the detailed construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts" (lines 11-19).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Atkin, Samuel T. & Steele, Oliver
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for an improvement in combined planter and cultivator that can be can modified for use in a cultivator, a gang breaker-plow or a seed planter. Includes illustration and description.
Date: September 2, 1879
Creator: Brown, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Starting Device for Engines (open access)

Starting Device for Engines

Patent for a starting device for automobile engines. Illustrations included.
Date: September 3, 1912
Creator: Roberts, James O. & Nunn, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment for Planters. (open access)

Plow Attachment for Planters.

Patent for an invention "to equip any style of planter with a plow attachment for breaking and opening the soil in advance of the furrow-opener and seeding mechanism." (Lines 8-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Conoley. Malcom C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in plows, having for its object the provision of simple and highly-efficient means for adjusting the position of the outer drag-bars and shovels and for regulating the depth of penetration of the central shovel" (lines 10-16).
Date: September 4, 1888
Creator: Foster, Joseph H. & Kimbro, Jeremiah H.
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
Nut-Lock (open access)

Nut-Lock

Patent for a "cheap, simple, and durable nut-lock which will be efficient to prevent a nut from working loose on a bolt, to prevent the bolt from turning in its socket, and to also permit the bolt to work or play slightlyin its socket to yield to the movement of the rails when a train is passing" (lines 20-26).
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Nelms, Alexander P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Submarine Plow. (open access)

Submarine Plow.

Patent for a simple, durable, and inexpensive submarine plow that has an adjustable beam with a plow on its lower end. The invention is meant to have a beam that is "capable of easier and more effectual adjustment to suit the conditions of the operation being performed" (lines 16-18).
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Halton, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie (open access)

Railway-Tie

Patent for a railway tie that may be cheaply made from sheet or cast metal. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Brister, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvement in car-coupler particularly to that known as “swing-pin.” This is how it works “a pin comprises a pin proper whose upper end is connected by a chain with the front end of the arm on a horizontal rod. The body of this pin passes through a catch, from which it may be removed.” (Lines 40-45) “The catch has a transverse pin and a rounded upper edge, terminating in a shoulder at its front end and a tongue at its rear end.” (Lines 46-49) Illustration is included.
Date: September 15, 1891
Creator: Harrington, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History