Vehicle-Body Construction (open access)

Vehicle-Body Construction

Patent for improvements to vehicle body construction, particularly corner-irons. The design of the product claims to be simple, economical, and provide a compact and firm joint for the vehicle body. Illustrations included.
Date: January 9, 1906
Creator: Dowling, Stonewall J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch For Street-Railways. (open access)

Electric Switch For Street-Railways.

Patent for an electric switch for street railways. This invention allows for the operation of switches of the track from the car, so the operator can turn the switches without stopping the car.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Posey, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to mounted on a cultivator carriage. It also provides detachable devices by which the cotton chopping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Cowart, Stephen A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hopple (open access)

Cultivator Hopple

Patent for a cultivator hopple. The hopple is a device for shifting beams of cultivators for the purpose of adjusting plows. Illustrations included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Cowart, Stephen A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for an improvement to the plow that allows "for holding the plow-point firmly in position upon the standard or foot without the use of bolts and nuts." (Lines 10-13)
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Johnson, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hopple (open access)

Cultivator Hopple

Patent for a cultivator hopple. This invention is for setting the plows of cultivators at suitable distances apart. Illustration included.
Date: January 22, 1907
Creator: Reeves, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an Acetylene gas generator with an improved building method for holding the carbide tank above the generator tank.
Date: January 7, 1908
Creator: Walsh, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attracting Flies (open access)

Device for Attracting Flies

Patent for a fly trapper. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Sims, Benjamin W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a riding harrow, which can have its teeth lifted up and out of operation.
Date: January 28, 1908
Creator: Hosford, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History