Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Byars, Edgar.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Baling-Machine (open access)

Baling-Machine

Patent for a baling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: December 31, 1907
Creator: Bryan, William Silous
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling (open access)

Coupling

Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date: April 28, 1908
Creator: Brandt, Olof Nelson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn, which is run by a foot treadle attached to a wheel that turns the dasher in the churn.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Stagg, Frank E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Byars, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Winding Machine. (open access)

Cloth-Winding Machine.

Patent for a cloth winding machine, which measures cloth for cutting and then winds the rest of the bolt of cloth back up.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Blythe, Edward Willey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Water. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Water.

Patent for a water-cooling apparatus composed chiefly of a subterranean cistern and a water-supply source.
Date: May 20, 1901
Creator: William J. Dossey
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
Track and CarrIage for Swing-Scaffolds. (open access)

Track and CarrIage for Swing-Scaffolds.

Patent for a track and carriage for swing scaffolds used by painters that can move horizontally across a house without taking down the scaffold and has adjustable lengths.
Date: January 7, 1908
Creator: Kersey, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Preserving (open access)

Process of Preserving

Patent for a process for preserving corn and is done without canning it.
Date: May 29, 1906
Creator: Melton, Ephraim B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mud-Scraper. (open access)

Mud-Scraper.

Patent for a mud scraper attachment for vehicles, which prevents mud from getting in the wheels of the vehicle on muddy dirt roads.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Whitaker, Ira Paschal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Switch (open access)

Telephone-Switch

Patent for a telephone switch. "This invention relates to switches for telephone and more particularly to shifting devices for short-circuiting certain classes of lines, and the object is to provide a system of cutting off communication in what are called 'party' lines" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Mount, Timothy S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like (open access)

Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like

Patent for a balancing device for cultivators or the like.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Dwight, Frances M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale (open access)

Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale

Patent for automatic computing and weighing scale.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Mount, Timothy S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal. (open access)

Electric Railway-Signal.

Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Stafford, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photograph Gallery Appliance (open access)

Photograph Gallery Appliance

Patent for a photograph gallery appliance. This invention is to replace special card mounts. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1904
Creator: Bunnell, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Row Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Double-Row Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a double row stalk cutter, which has rotating stalk cutters.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Peden, Francis M.
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
Calendar Clock (open access)

Calendar Clock

Patent for calendar clock. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Woods, Jesse Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History