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Cotton-Chopper Attachment. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper Attachment.

Patent for Cotton-Chopper Attachment. This invention relates to cotton chopper attachments for cultivator frames and has for its object to provide an attachment of simple structure which may be easily and quickly applied to the frame of a cultivator or detached from the same" (lines 9-14).
Date: October 3, 1911
Creator: Mathus, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet (open access)

Closet

Patent for a dry closet. Illustrations included.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Crow, Levi H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Insects

Patent for an apparatus for destroying insects. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Crow, William M. & Crow, Levi H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines (open access)

Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines

Patent for a device for adjusting sieves in threshing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Steelsmith, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Placket - Fastener. (open access)

Placket - Fastener.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in placket holders.
Date: February 22, 1898
Creator: McCauley, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for improvements to cultivators.
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Skeen, Virgil G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles. (open access)

Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.

Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Winfrey, Edgar, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Saddle. (open access)

Door-Saddle.

Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Vogel, Thomas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine. (open access)

Adding-Machine.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Brooks, Augustus J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture. (open access)

Curtain-Fixture.

Patent for improvements in curtain fixtures "in which the brackets supporting the spring curtain-roller may be raised or lowered to admit light above the curtain." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Winfrey, Edgar M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Threshing Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Threshing Machine.

Patent for a cotton threshing machine with wheels designed to be constructed in the cotton field and easily moved to different parts of the field.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Device for Cutting Off the Flow of Ait Through Oil-Pipes (open access)

Automatic Device for Cutting Off the Flow of Ait Through Oil-Pipes

Patent for a device which automatically terminates air flow through an oil pipe by means of a float which travels within the oil pipe.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Tucker, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Route-Indicator. (open access)

Route-Indicator.

Patent for an improved route indicator for automobiles "which not only visually indicates the characteristics and risks of the road" but in addition provides an "auditory signal to call attention to approaching hazards or dangers" (lines 36-41). Illustrations included.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Cranmer, Howard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crossing-Gate. (open access)

Crossing-Gate.

Patent for improvements to crossing gates through a device that helps facilitate the gates' automatic closing and opening position.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Hood, Lemuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Glass Manufacture dated November 5, 1918 (open access)

Glass Manufacture dated November 5, 1918

Patent for apparatus to improve the overall quality and efficiency of glass production. This includes both window and sheet glass. It assists in developing sheet glass through blowing, drawing, and ladling.
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Thomas J. McCoy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Signal. (open access)

Automobile-Signal.

Patent for turn signal improvements with an aim to improve visibility of signal and ease of replacement with the goal of communicating vehicular movement and reducing accidents.
Date: November 15, 1921
Creator: Squier, William Ernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calk Attachment For Horseshoes (open access)

Calk Attachment For Horseshoes

Patent for new and useful improvements in calk attachments for horseshoes. The objective is to provide detachable means applicable to the conventional types of shoe without any modifications.
Date: March 29, 1921
Creator: Douglas, John Davies
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a safety valve that closes a conduit when a change in pressure occurs that shuts off the supply of fluid (or gas) until the valve is manually reset.
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Ruffner, Earl S., of Wichita Falls, Texas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bevel-Square (open access)

Bevel-Square

Patent for improvements in bevel squares used by carpenters, mechanics, and other similar work to represent the work of multiple bevels at once "to minimize and facilitate operations in fitting the parts of an objective structure together..." (Lines 19-21).
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Seay, Mathew E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Card Holder (open access)

Card Holder

Patent for card holders meant to help better display business cards and other forms of advertisement on surfaces such as windows.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Hill, L. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-off Valve for Pipe-Lines (open access)

Cut-off Valve for Pipe-Lines

Patent for cut-off valve for pipe-lines intended for oil companies.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Hagern, Joseph F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Recovering Tools from Wells. (open access)

Device for Recovering Tools from Wells.

Patent for a device to lift and recover tools, such as drill-bits, that have been dropped or lost in wells. The device features two prongs that may be engaged to grip or secure in a "biting hold" (line 50) various objects, illustrations included.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Scott, Augustus B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Threshing Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Threshing Machine.

Patent for an improvement to cotton-threshing machines that threshes "the cotton crop by extracting and separating the cotton locks from the bolls and stalks" (lines 13-15). This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Patterson, Warren A. & Kemp, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Rod Coupling (open access)

Fuel Rod Coupling

Patent for a new type of fuel rod coupling, or "sucker rod," meant to increase the durability of pipes and rods used in drilling operations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Sheldon, W. J. & Allen, C. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History