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Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil. (open access)

Cooking Utensil.

Patent for a steam cooker with steam tight joints.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Daniels, Laura E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Truck. (open access)

Car-Truck.

Patent for a car truck for use on trains, which can withstand heavy loads and high speeds.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for a seed-cotton handling machine for use in cotton gins which as an improved elevator and feeding system.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Boiler-Feed (open access)

Automatic Boiler-Feed

Patent for a steam boiler which automatically fills the boiler with water to the proper levels and keeps the levels steady.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Twombly, Harry Denny
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing Spear (open access)

Casing Spear

Patent for casing spears. This invention is designed for pulling well tubes or casings that have broken off out of the well. Illustration included.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Carroll, Monroe W. & Johnston, H. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Working Tool. (open access)

Wire-Working Tool.

Patent for wire working tool for attaching couplings to hoses.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Glenn, Dan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Bats for Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts, &c. (open access)

Machine for Making Bats for Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts, &c.

Patent for a machine for making bats for mattresses and related items.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Underwood, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lister-Sweep. (open access)

Lister-Sweep.

Patent for a lister sweep for cultivators with improved teeth.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Burns, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Dispensing Apparatus. (open access)

Liquid-Dispensing Apparatus.

Patent for a coin operated drink machine, which dispenses a set amount of liquid into a cup when a coin is inserted.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Setting Machine (open access)

Valve Setting Machine

Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gearing. (open access)

Transmission-Gearing.

Patent for a transmission gearing for a traction system for trains, which can be used on all types of curves without ill effects.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Train-Pipe Coupling. (open access)

Train-Pipe Coupling.

Patent for a coupling for trains air brake hoses/pipes, which automatically connects when train cars are put together.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Felkner, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Callihan. Willie H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Package-Tie. (open access)

Package-Tie.

Patent for a package tie for packages of mail, which holds securely and is easily undone by pulling from both ends.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Sharpe, Edmund L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Vehicle. (open access)

Motor-Vehicle.

Patent for a motor vehicle of an ordinary farm type wagon.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: McCurry, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Level. (open access)

Track-Level.

Patent for a track level, which is used to measure the lay of the land that a road is being built through.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Young, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow. (open access)

Sulky-Plow.

Patent for a sulky plow for three horses, which stops the plow pole from rubbing the middle horse.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Marx, Otto H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ticket Selling Machine (open access)

Ticket Selling Machine

Patent for a ticket selling machine.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Tree (open access)

Meat-Tree

Patent for a meat tree to hold meat in col storage or for smoking.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Richmond, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milking Apparatus (open access)

Milking Apparatus

Patent for a milking apparatus. This invention is designed to imitate the action of hand milking or a calf's sucking. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Furnace. (open access)

Portable Furnace.

Patent for a portable coal burning furnace for use in cooking in pots that can be adjusted for different size pots.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Ruhmann, Gustav E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Deen, Irwin Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History