Combined Cotton, Corn,and Pea Planter and Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Combined Cotton, Corn,and Pea Planter and Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Combined Mowers and Seed Planter"(lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1883
Creator: Nelson, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a lock. Illustrations included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Greene, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a new and improved construction and combination of parts used by machines that convert either into a cotton or corn planter, including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Rhea, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger (open access)

Post Hole Digger

Patent for a post hole digger. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Hefner, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Support for Carriage Tops (open access)

Support for Carriage Tops

Patent for a new and useful improvements in supports for carriage tops. This invention "consists in the features of construction hereinafter more particularly set forth and specifically claimed" (line 19-21).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Gallaway, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Circulating Gage. (open access)

Oil-Circulating Gage.

Patent for an "oil circulating gage particularly designed for use in connection with the oiling system of the well known 'Ford' automobile."
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Cope, Thomas N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoe. (open access)

Hoe.

Patent for a new and improved hoe. This design consists in "[a] hoe having two blades, the upper blade having a straight cutting-edge projecting from the top of the main blade at an obtuse angle to the inner face of the lower blade and entirely within the plane thereof, and the shank" (lines 79-84).
Date: December 18, 1888
Creator: Hefner, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish Trap (open access)

Fish Trap

Patent for a fish trap. Illustration included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Carwile, Eugene B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Hill, Abner R.
System: The Portal to Texas History