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Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a press for baling cotton and other fibrous materials.
Date: October 14, 1902
Creator: Mount, T. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard (open access)

Cattle-Guard

Patent for a cattle guard to prevent cattle from treading upon railroad tracks. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Reed, Conwell P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Cleat and Fastener. (open access)

Car-Door Cleat and Fastener.

Patent for "a simple and comparatively-inexpensive car-door cleat and fastener designed for use on cars for transporting cotton and other highly-inflammable merchandise and capable of effectually excluding sparks from the interior of the car and of preventing the same from entering between the edge of the door and the doorway." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1895
Creator: Woodruff, Hawkins
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn And Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn And Cotton Planter

Patent for Corn and Cotton Planter
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Robinson, Marcus; Robinson, Samuel & Davis, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for an insect destroyer, specifically made for the boll weevil insect. The purpose of the Insect-Destroyer is to provide a cheaper, simpler, and more convenient alternative to the existing boll weevil insect destroyers.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Clement, Auther H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Breaker (open access)

Stalk Breaker

Patent for breaking cotton stalks. This device is designed to break down cotton stalks while sparing stalks of growing young wheat. Illustration included.
Date: October 27, 1908
Creator: Shaw, Drury P. & Tackaberry, W. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cotton-Baling Tamper. (open access)

Steam Cotton-Baling Tamper.

Patent for improvements in steam cotton-baling tamper by automating the tamping process and the feed of cotton to the baling hopper. Illustration is included.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Walker, Jackson Lamar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Force-Pump. (open access)

Force-Pump.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient double action force pump that has one cylinder and one plunger. It also equalizes the opposite strokes of the plunger, and pushes water into the common chamber with both strokes.
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Thompson, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flower-Pot. (open access)

Flower-Pot.

Patent for a new flower pot with metal siding and a removable bottom, including illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Simpson, McDuff
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Freezing Connection for Tanks (open access)

Non-Freezing Connection for Tanks

Patent for a valve for water tanks that prevents the water from freezing by taking in water from the central portion. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Miller, Charles Hector & Bunnell, Walter Alex
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Action Pump (open access)

Double-Action Pump

Patent for "double-action submerged force-pumps which can be operated by any suitable power, but particularly adapted for operation by windmills provided with variable gearing...simple in construction and strong and durable and in which there are no parts which can be disarranged during operation and from which all valves may be removed without disturbing the pipe and which will maintain a continuous flow of water during operation."
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Byars, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculator. (open access)

Calculator.

Patent for a calculator "in which a bar having a series of numbers thereon slides in a frame or base also provided with a series of numbers" (lines 10-12). It is meant for quickly adding numbers.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Copeland, Wesley Albert & Roberts, Cyrus
System: The Portal to Texas History