Resource Type

Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a combined cultivator and cotton-chopper, to "provide an improved cotton-chopping mechanism which is adapted to be combined with and operated in connection with a sulky-cultivator, whereby a growing crop of cotton may be plowed and chopped or hoed simultaneously" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 13, 1900
Creator: Blaschke, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a better support device than previous churns.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Hyland, George Tolifaro
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn Or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and useful corn or cotton planter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Linam, John W. & Whitworth, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new, improved combined corn and cotton planter, including illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer. (open access)

Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer.

Patent for a new and useful convertible churn and ice cream freezer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Everhard, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band Cutter (open access)

Band Cutter

Patent for a band cutter. This invention is designed to cut bale-ties on cotton bales. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Manly, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
CHUCK FOR COILING STUD-SPIRALS (open access)

CHUCK FOR COILING STUD-SPIRALS

Patent for a specially designed tool "to provide an improved chuck for jewelers' use and for coiling stud-spirals and the like" (lines 9-11).
Date: February 12, 1901
Creator: Uerckert, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Connecting Arch For Cultivators (open access)

Connecting Arch For Cultivators

Patent for connecting arch for cultivators. This invention controls multiple cultivators gang. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1904
Creator: Schulz, Ernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1899
Creator: Prinzing, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for improvements to the construction of corn and cotton planters that are ridden by the user, illustrated.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Boyd, Joseph Lonzo & Gillis, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Drier (open access)

Clothes Drier

Patent for a clothes drier. Illustration included.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Bird, Fred E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for elevating and cleaning seed cotton
Date: March 5, 1900
Creator: Reynolds, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn or cotton planter that is simple, durable and low-cost.
Date: November 19, 1901
Creator: Ferriott, Charley L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter (open access)

Band-Cutter

Patent for band-cutters “designed for facilitating the cutting of bale-bands” (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Manly, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collyrium. (open access)

Collyrium.

Patent for a mixture for an eye-water; ingredients, proportions of the ingredients and instructions on how to prepare the mixture are included. No illustration.
Date: March 7, 1882
Creator: Templeton, Absalom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed (open access)

Cabinet-Bed

Patent for "a cheap and simple construction of bed of this class, adapted to be readily folded or unfolded and to provide means for automatically folding and unfolding the legs for supporting the foot of the bed-frame when said frame is raised or lowered" (lines 9-15)
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Hayton, John. W. & Swift, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn in which a can has an opening in the center of its lid, in which a dasher-staff fits. The can fits in a frame. There are two parts to the frame, the part that rotates the can, and the part that holds the churn in place. The frame also holds the dasher-staff and a crank to rotate the can's frame.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Everhard, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-press. (open access)

Baling-press.

Patent for a baling press intended to work with hay, cotton and similar material, and form bales of many different sizes.
Date: June 18, 1897
Creator: Murphy, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Grate Attachment. (open access)

Adjustable Grate Attachment.

Patent for an adjustable grate attachment that is meant to be used with open grates. It prevents "the falling of heated coals therefrom; also to provide for extension of the grate vertically to facilitate making of a larger fire; and further, to provide an attachment which may be used in regulating the draft to the grate proper" (lines 15-20).
Date: May 23, 1893
Creator: Hutton, Milton Calhoun
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling press for hay that is meant "to provide a press and suitable power for operating the same, and to so construct said press as to double the capacity of the ordinary pres, that is to form two bales at one time, the press being operated by the same power; and, furthermore, to provide means for conveniently transporting the same when desired" (lines 10-17).
Date: August 29, 1893
Creator: Harrington, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shearing and Punching Machine. (open access)

Shearing and Punching Machine.

Patent for punches and shears combined to cut metal longitudinally.
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Echols, Christaphor Columbus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle. (open access)

Bicycle.

Patent for a bicycle that can be operated by the operator's hands or feet or both, and the motion used to operate the bicycle is that of rowing. "the rider must assume a position upon the machine corresponding to that assumed by an oarsman in a boat, and as the rider can work with both hands and feet all the energy and strength he is capable of exerting can be brought to bear upon the propelling mechanism in a most effective manner, and the seat can be rendered much more comfortable than at present and in no wise interfere with the rider's movements" (lines 18-27).
Date: April 3, 1894
Creator: Hyde, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace. (open access)

Bed-Brace.

Patent for a bed brace that consists of end-loops that are held by engage hooks at the ends of the bedstead, fixed draw-wires that connect the outer and inner sides of the end-loops, a tension-loop that is connected to the side rails, tightening link with duplicate rings that slide onto the tension loop, and a transverse twisting-bar.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Pool, David Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History