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Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap with a new kind of trigger fir closing the door to the trap.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Hatchell, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter (open access)

Corn Planter

Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Robinson, Charles William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Plows (open access)

Attachment For Plows

Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wilke, Ernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake-Setting Appliance (open access)

Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Barrel. (open access)

Collapsible Barrel.

Patent for a collapsible barrel for use in shipping.
Date: October 13, 1908
Creator: Lemly, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Smith, Columbus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for use in steam boilers, which reduces fuel usage.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Owin, Elijah J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp (open access)

Clamp

Patent for a clamp for well tubes that can be used to remove the tubes for repair.
Date: August 13, 1912
Creator: Maxwell, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Body. (open access)

Churn-Body.

Patent for a churn body with a temperature regulator for the cream.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Liles, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Stewart, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter. Illustration included.
Date: September 13, 1904
Creator: Martin, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Frame. (open access)

Canopy-Frame.

Patent for a canopy frame for any kind of drapery, including mosquito nets. The design is purported to be inexpensive and strong, using a thin metal support for the crossbeams.
Date: July 13, 1901
Creator: Johnston, Washington T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Thompson, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvesting Machine (open access)

Corn-Harvesting Machine

Patent for a corn harvesting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Operator (open access)

Churn Operator

Patent for a Churn Operator. This device contains specifications for operating churn-dashers, as well as improvements for the established churn operator.
Date: April 13, 1905
Creator: Ham, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover. (open access)

Churn-Cover.

Patent for "new and Improved Churn-Cover" (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Hogue, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for a door for railroad boxcars, which locks tightly and does not swell.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Ward, Frank & Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustrations included.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Hendrix, James D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Measuring Instrument (open access)

Combination Measuring Instrument

Patent for a combination measuring instrument. Illustration included.
Date: September 13, 1904
Creator: Terry, William Blake
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack And Support Therefor (open access)

Cotton Picker's Sack And Support Therefor

Patent for a cotton picker's sack and support therefor. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Clark, Isom J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that can also chop or cut corn, cane, broom-corn, peas, or any similar plants that are planted thick in drills or rows. This particular chopper includes an approved arrangement and adjustment of the chopping-blades that can be set to cut at different angles.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: McKee, Jacob Rufus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Apparatus. (open access)

Cotton-Handling Apparatus.

Patent for a new cotton-handling apparatus with cleaning mechanisms and a storage-house, including illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Tidwell, Albert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Slide (open access)

Coin-Controlled Slide

Patent for a coin-controlled slide used for operating mechanical musical instruments and vending machines. Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Hammond, Robert P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operated Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Fender, John Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History