Compress and Packer (open access)

Compress and Packer

Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Griffin, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that has advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency because it is adapted to operate crosswise with relation to the rows.
Date: September 16, 1902
Creator: Fay, Louis Percy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Brake Ratchet (open access)

Wagon-Brake Ratchet

Patent for new mode of applying brake-shoes to a wagon and improvement with the position of the brake level on a wagon.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Shipley, Jack J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Hook (open access)

Hame-Hook

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Hame-Hooks." (lines 5-6). "The object of the invention is to provide a hame-hook which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and by means of which the tug or trace chain may be easily attached to the hame at various heights and be securely retained in position." (lines 12-18)
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Lindsay, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reed-Organ. (open access)

Reed-Organ.

Patent for reed-organs that is needed in the construction of reed-board to improve the quality and volume of the tone, produce a uniform pipe-tone throughout the different registers.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Preston, Percy C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jeweler's Tool. (open access)

Jeweler's Tool.

Patent for improvements in jeweler’s tools by “comprising a tubular handle, a reciprocatory punch-stem extending through the handle and beyond both ends thereof, a retracting spring seated within the handle and engaging with the stem, a punch-needle having a socket member detachably engaging one end of the punch-stem, and a cap detachably fitting one end of the handle over the end of the stem opposite the punch-needle.” (Page 2, lines 5-[13]) Illustration is included.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Nilson, Albert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dress - Supporter. (open access)

Dress - Supporter.

Patent for new and useful improvement in dress-supporters for the purpose of providing "simple and effective means for removing the weight of a dress-skirt" (lines 9-11) from the hips and shoulders of the wearer, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Caruthers, Martha J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for "an improved cotton-compress adapted to be used in connection with a cotton-baling press for increasing the density and reducing the size of the bales formed in the press."
Date: August 26, 1902
Creator: Denton, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History