Machine For Collecting Insects From Plants (open access)

Machine For Collecting Insects From Plants

Patent for a machine that collects insects from plants. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Bolen, Walter M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Pulverizer. (open access)

Soil Pulverizer.

Patent for a new and improved soil pulverizer. This design consists in "the combination of rotating blades on a shaft adjustable forward and backward, the driving wheel shaft, the intermediate operating mechanism, and the two transverse shafts . . . the driving-wheels, the multiplying gear-wheels, the two shafts, blades, [the] shaft adjustable forward and backward by means of a lever, frame having recesses for journal-boxes, the lugs on the latter, and the connecting rod" (lines 84-95).
Date: February 5, 1884
Creator: Rankin, John Dake & Knox, William Custis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Thomas, Edward E.
System: The Portal to Texas History