Cloth-Bolt Holder. (open access)

Cloth-Bolt Holder.

Patent for a cloth bolt holder, which attaches to a counter and allows for easy rolling and unrolling of the bolt.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Flemister, Ernest T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Walker, Charlie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace. (open access)

Bed-Brace.

Patent for bed braces that tighten the mattress support wires in a bed frame. These bed braces securely keep their position and allow easy adjustments.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Lockett, Wyatt W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: French, Alfonso Claude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributor. (open access)

Fertilizer-Distributor.

Patent for a fertilizer distributor, which has a rocking hopper to distribute the fertilizer from.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Pate, Grover C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Lewis, Joseph Wesley & Phillips, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin that is durable and strong.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: French, Alfonso Claude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment (open access)

Harness Attachment

Patent for a harness attachment. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Bass, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing. (open access)

Ball-Bearing.

Patent for ball-bearings that "consists in improvements in hubs or journal-boxes and in the journals of axles or spindles" (lines 8-10), the "object [of which] is to construct journals and journal-boxes which will be perfectly adjustable and durable and which will be subjected to the least possible friction" (lines 12-15).
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: Baker, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Condenser. (open access)

Cotton Condenser.

Patent for a new and improved cotton condenser. This design involves "[t]he lint pass[ing] from the gin through the flue and between the condensing-cylinders, by which it is formed into a bat. The blast from the gin serves to blow all dust from the lint through the wire-cloth of the cylinders and out through the openings in the ends of the latter. The upper cylinder will move vertically in its bearings . . . and thus adjust itself to any quantity of lint that may pass from the gin" (lines 46-55).
Date: July 10, 1883
Creator: Sewell, Franklin Milner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment. (open access)

Type-Writer Attachment.

Patent for a typewriter attachment that holds and feeds rolls of paper through typewriters. It is inexpensive and fits on several types of typewriters.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Baker, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for improvements in valves used in rotary engines.
Date: May 9, 1871
Creator: Hughes, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for improvements in rotary engines.
Date: June 5, 1866
Creator: Hughes, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap (open access)

Trap

Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Kennedy, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Holder. (open access)

Tool-Holder.

Patent for "a holder for any class of tools, but being especially adapted for hatchets, garden-tools, and tools of like character." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Richardson, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Support (open access)

Thill-Support

Patent for a thill support designed to support the thill "without having the weight thrown upon the circle or fifth wheel" (lines 14-15), and may be adjusted to a variety of vehicles. Illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Story, Sam H
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow and Sweep Holder (open access)

Plow and Sweep Holder

Patent for a holder for plows and sweeps. Illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: French, Alfonso Claude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-beam, of two side-bars, the rear portion of each of which is folded back upon itself, forming a standard, a shorter standard, a handle the front end of which and the end of the double portion are secured to the said bar by means of a single bolt, and the downturned end of one-half of the adjusting device and a brace for said handle being secured by a single bolt at another place" (lines 8-17).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Putman, John Howard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Plow (open access)

Steam Plow

Patent for Steam-Plow. "The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved steam-plow, which is simple in construction, has great tractive force, can-not slip, and plows very rapidly and perfectly." (lines 7-10)
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Lay, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor (open access)

Motor

Patent for a "new and improved propeller for boats which is simple in construction, prevents a loss of power, and is thus very economical." (lines 8-10). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Lay, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reel (open access)

Reel

Patent for a reel for barbed wires. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Kennedy, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Bearing. (open access)

Roller-Bearing.

Patent for improvements in roller bearing for vehicles.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Baker, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potato-Cutter. (open access)

Potato-Cutter.

Patent for a potato cutter, which cuts potatoes into uniform slices for planting.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Wise, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger (open access)

Post Hole Digger

Patent for post hole digger with a simple construction which can be manufactured at a comparatively smaller cost.
Date: December 22, 1914
Creator: Day, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History