Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press that uses the minimum amount of power to accomplish the baling process.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Gill, Fleet & Graham, Daniel O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Buggy-Top and Rein and Robe Holder. (open access)

Combined Buggy-Top and Rein and Robe Holder.

Patent for a combined buggy top shock buffer and rein and lap robe holder.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hitt, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover. (open access)

Churn-Cover.

Patent for an improvement in churn covers "which will embody a closed dead-air space above the body of the churn, a guide-tube for the dasher-rod, and the special construction at the outer edge of the base of the cover by which to provide a channel to fit upon the upper edge of the churn-body" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Van Hoozer, Thomas H. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Implement. (open access)

Compound Implement.

Patent for a compound tool for building and repairing fences, which combines a post hole digger and a wire stretcher.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Haynes, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and a cultivator.This invention allows for the raising and lowering the cultivator teeth. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Robertson, Newton K. & Jones, Isaac W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Cam Wheel. (open access)

Design for Cam Wheel.

Patent for A Cam-Wheel that has opposite reversely disposed duplicate lobes of segmental form.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Wheeler, Andrew Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a post-hole digger with a wire stretcher attached to it.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Haynes, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support (open access)

Buggy-Top Support

Patent for a supporting mechanism for the top of a buggy or vehicle while it is being lowered or traversing rough terrain. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Elms, Joab
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Shovel (open access)

Cultivator-Shovel

Patent for a shovel that is designed for scrapping and opening furrows. The angle of the shovel blade can be easily adjusted to the correct angle as to make the correct size furrow row in the field.
Date: December 19, 1902
Creator: Johnson, Alvis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condiment-Holder. (open access)

Condiment-Holder.

Patent for a salt shaker which has a rod going into the jar, which will agitate the salt to keep it from clogging.
Date: October 26, 1909
Creator: Hitt, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Chopper. (open access)

Cotton and Corn Chopper.

Patent for an "attachment to a cultivator to chop or thin corn, cotton, and other drilled plants at the same time it is being plowed and without interfering in the work of the cultivator" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Graham, Daniel O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coverer For Planters (open access)

Coverer For Planters

Patent for a coverer for planters. Illustrations included.
Date: November 27, 1906
Creator: Stapp, George & Robertson, Newton K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an improved animal trap, primarily intended for catching wolves, that is adjustable and economical to construct.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Jones, Isaac W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Bucket or Vessel. (open access)

Cloth Bucket or Vessel.

Patent for a cloth bucket or vessel to place milk or water in to keep it cool when ice is not available. One places the bucket in the shade and the air circulates freely through the bucket. The bucket is thick enough that it will not drip, but is breathable to allow aeration and evaporation.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Slack, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Barrel Truck and Support. (open access)

Combined Barrel Truck and Support.

Patent for "a combination of devices for hoisting and hauling and supporting barrels and other receptacles for use in stores and other places" (lines 8-11).
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Hoff, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Pump. (open access)

Balanced Pump.

Patent for a new and improved balanced pump. This design "relates to improvements in balanced pumps having two vertical receiving-cylinders provided with vertically-reciprocating plungers, and two vertical delivery-cylinders provided with plunging-barrels, all being provided with suitable valves operating automatically in conjunction therewith; and the objects of [the] invention are, first, to provide a pump by means of which water or other fluids may be conducted or raised with but little propelling power, and . . . to afford facilities for readily attaching it to be driven by any steam-engine" (lines 15-27).
Date: April 20, 1886
Creator: Ramsey, Haley S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for improvements on a churn design, in particular for churns with a vertical dasher that have reciprocating motion.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: Henderson, Henry Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap. (open access)

Ant-Trap.

Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 8, 1891
Creator: Walker, Stephen A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Pump. (open access)

Balanced Pump.

Patent for a new and improved balanced pump. This design "relates to improvements in balanced pumps having a horizontal cylinder provided with a horizontally-reciprocating plunger, and a curved cylinder placed directly under it, provided with a curved plunger, both having suitable valves operating automatically in conjunction therewith" (lines 8-14).
Date: July 1, 1884
Creator: Ramsey, Haley S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Shafts (open access)

Buggy-Shafts

Patent "is to provide a construction whereby the shafts and cross beam which connect the same may be held against relative movement" (lines 10-13).
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: McMillan, Newton W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Catcher (open access)

Boll-Weevil Catcher

Patent for a machine for removing boll-weevils from growing cotton
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Hitt, Reed R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Mill Attachment. (open access)

Coffee Mill Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved coffee-mill attachment. This design "is to provide an attachment for coffee-mills whereby a cup or other receptacle can be suspended beneath the discharge-spout of the mill to receive the ground coffee therefrom, and which vessel can also be easily and readily fitted or adjusted beneath or removed from the discharge-spout, and to provide means which can be applied very easily and readily to hand coffee-mills of any class, and which shall be simple in construction and inexpensive" (lines 16-26).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Wiesendanger, Emil Ulrich
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester. (open access)

Spark-Arrester.

Patent for self-driven, rotating, exhaust vent brushes to arrest sparks.
Date: January 18, 1887
Creator: Elkins, William Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Plow-Foot. (open access)

Automatic Plow-Foot.

Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Dugger, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History