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
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for a car-coupling that "will greatly simplify the construction and facilitate the operation thereof by providing levers upon the end of the car" (lines 14-17); including illustration and instructions
Date: May 29, 1900
Creator: Asher, A. J. & Gautt, W. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Plows And Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment For Plows And Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements for plows and cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Hardeman, James Maxwell & Belt, Charles Tighman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for elevating and cleaning seed cotton
Date: March 5, 1900
Creator: Reynolds, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter (open access)

Band-Cutter

Patent for band-cutters “designed for facilitating the cutting of bale-bands” (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Manly, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Support. (open access)

Tongue-Support.

Patent for improvements to tongue supports. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of tongue-supports and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device designed to be connected with the ends of a doubletree and with the front axle and capable of supporting the front portion of the tongue or pole in an elevated position to relieve the neck of the draft- animals of the weight of the same" (lines 10-18). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1900
Creator: Brewer, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planting Attachment For Cultivators. (open access)

Planting Attachment For Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planting attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Weddle, John Crit
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for a new invention to improve tire-tighteners."Provides a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device capable of firmly engaging a felly and a spoke and adapted to be readily adjusted to tighten a tire" (lines 12-15) and includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1900
Creator: Ferriott, Charley L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Filer. (open access)

Gin-Saw Filer.

Patent for improvement in gin-saw filer in “which the saws may be sharpened without removing them or any other operative part from the gin and wherein the files in sharpening one tooth automatically operate to impart a partial rotation to the saw to bring the next saw-tooth in position to be filed.” (Lines 11-17) Illustration is included.
Date: January 9, 1900
Creator: Reynolds, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Track Crossing. (open access)

Railroad-Track Crossing.

Patent for a new and useful railroad track crossing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1900
Creator: Friedsam, Samuel Andras
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for "an Improvement in a Combined Planter (cotton and corn) and Cultivator" (lines 5-6).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Svensen, Svend G.
System: The Portal to Texas History