Resource Type

Stalk-Cutter (open access)

Stalk-Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutter that cuts and chops multiple rows of stalks at once.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Sosbee, Survetus, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter. (open access)

Seed Planter.

Patent for a seed planter that provides improvements upon a riding or wheel planting plow.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Johnson, W. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ring for Disseminating Perfumes, &c. (open access)

Ring for Disseminating Perfumes, &c.

Patent for "an improved device for disseminating chemicals, perfumes and the like ... in the nature of a ring which may be worn on either finger, toe, arm, or any part of the body and which constitutes a container for the material to be disseminated." (p.1 lines 9-15). The "outlet ... openings [of the ring] ... are normally obstructed to some extent by contact with the member on which it is worn so that the escape of the material contained will be slow and gradual." (p.1 lines 18-23)
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Griffin, William H. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History