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Improvement in Walking-Planters
Patent for improvements of a new walking planter where the design is much improved to that of the cotton planters. The new improvements of the walking planter are much safer because of the hopper that is in the new and improved equipment, including illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1877
Creator:
Brown, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction and thoroughly effective in its operation. The invention consists in the improved construction and combinations of parts" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 13, 1884
Creator:
Smoot, John Devers
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cultivator-Plow.
Patent for a sectional moldboard plow that is "capable of being easily taken apart and put together when it is desired to replace the points or shares" (lines 18-20). It also has "a socket which is removably held to the bar of the cultivator and which is provided to hold the removable boards" (lines 22-25). The bar can fit double-cut or sweep plows.
Date:
January 19, 1897
Creator:
Hayslip, De Witt Clinton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain Holder.
Patent for a new and improved curtain-holder. This design "has relation to that class of curtain-holders which are adapted to hold or clasp the lower part of a window-curtain, so as to hold it up against the window frame or casing when it is desired to spread the curtains apart, and has for its object to so construct a device of that class that the holding hook or catch which clasps the folds of the curtain may be turned down so as to be out of the way when the device is not in use" (lines 22-31).
Date:
December 22, 1885
Creator:
Wilson, Nelse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cotton-Press
Patent for a cotton press that operates slowly and requires minimum power. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Breihan, Frederick F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Carrell, Fitzhu L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton press, which can be run with either wormed gearing or beveled gearing depending on the pressure desired to be exerted on the cotton.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Breihan, Frederick F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topper.
Patent for a cotton-topper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Ray, Arthur Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1897
Creator:
Dycus, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cover.
Patent for a dust cover for mattresses and pillows, which is smooth when in place and is washable.
Date:
March 10, 1908
Creator:
Forwood, David F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker.
Patent for machine for picking cotton that is simple in construction and comparatively inexpensive.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Hyde, Thomas Burke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. This invention relates to pneumatic cotton-pickers using a suction box for detaching bolls of cotton from pods. Illustration included.
Date:
July 25, 1905
Creator:
Hyde, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivator.
Patent for a cotton cultivator, which scratches the stalks of each cotton plant to stunt the plants growth and increase its cotton yield.
Date:
March 16, 1909
Creator:
Pacha, Anton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for treating soil for agricultural purposes. This invention destroys the ridges used for planting and growing cotton and also cultivating the soil in the vicinity of the ridges.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Kriel, John J. & Kriel, Otto J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History