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Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that thins plants and provides ample space between those plants to achieve mature and plentiful harvest.
Date:
December 26, 1905
Creator:
Butler, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard and Gate
Patent for cattle guards utilizing a gate normally disposed across a railroad track. This gate is modified for operation by actuation of a moving train approaching the guard from either direction.
Date:
December 26, 1905
Creator:
Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock Calendar
Patent for a clock calendar.
Date:
December 8, 1903
Creator:
Woods, Jesse Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for cotton choppers with a moving hoe-frame. The essential feature of the invention is to secure a special construction and arrangement of chopping blades which are adapted to be adjusted in such a way as to leave a greater or less number of the plants in a row as the chopper is operated.
Date:
December 26, 1905
Creator:
Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire.
Patent for a removable replacement tire. To provide simple and easy removable tires to replace the old ones.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Ford William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Step for Public Carriers
Patent for public carriers such as cars that are designed for transporting passengers, especially steam operated railways. This patent will provide these carriers with a string of steps at each end upon both sides to facilitate ingress and egress. These steps are stationary and for safety terminate a short distance away from the ground.
Date:
December 26, 1905
Creator:
Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Gate.
Patent for "improvement in gates and has particular reference to a railway gate employed as a cattle guard" (lines 12-14)
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Norman, Cornelius A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester.
Patent for a simplified and improved peanut-harvesting machine. With this machine, "peanut vines may be dug from the ground, and thoroughly shaken and agitated so as to separate dirt and sand from the vines and nuts, the vines and nuts being bunched and deposited on the ground in piles or heaps for subsequent gathering," (lines 12-17) including illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Meador, Lenerd E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History