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Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear. (open access)

Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spears" (lines 5-7) which "relates to improvements in well-boring apparatus" (lines 13-14).
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Wilson, James Newton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine (open access)

Saw-Filing Machine

Patent for a Saw-Filing Machine. "This invention relates to saw-filing machines; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective device of this character which is adapted to sharpen with accuracy and rapidity the teeth of different kinds of saws." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Surveying Instruments (open access)

Attachment For Surveying Instruments

Patent for attachment for surveying instruments. Illustrations included.
Date: September 6, 1904
Creator: Armstrong, Edward R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Churn-Operating Mechanism

Patent for a rotary dasher churn operated by a spring motor. Illustrations included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Johnson, Frederick N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Line Buckle. (open access)

Check-Line Buckle.

Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Snell, David C. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a combined cultivator and cotton-chopper, to "provide an improved cotton-chopping mechanism which is adapted to be combined with and operated in connection with a sulky-cultivator, whereby a growing crop of cotton may be plowed and chopped or hoed simultaneously" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 13, 1900
Creator: Blaschke, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter and Feeder (open access)

Band-Cutter and Feeder

Patent for a band cutter and feeder which cuts the bands that tie bundles of grain and feeds the grain into a threshing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: Richmond, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
BalingPress (open access)

BalingPress

Patent for the usefulness of baling press.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Woodward, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate. (open access)

Collapsible Crate.

Patent for a collapsible crate for shipping berries.
Date: October 8, 1907
Creator: Lewis, Bennett Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check Row Planter (open access)

Check Row Planter

Patent for check row planter. Illustration included.
Date: July 19, 1904
Creator: Perkins, Albert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for a cotton and corn planter that does not put as much pressure on the tongue of the machine as previous models and that allows the plow attachment to be lifted higher off the ground to avoid obstacles.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Goodnight, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt Fastener (open access)

Belt Fastener

Patent for a belt fastener. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Stenzel, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes. (open access)

Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.

Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Smitham, Nicholas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor (open access)

Churn Motor

Patent for a churn motor. This invention is a manually motored churn. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Cole, Emory W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Spindle (open access)

Buggy-Spindle

Patent for a buggy spindle for "taking up lost motion in the axle box should it be too short or too worn" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has a rotary blade for cutting cotton and blades which can be raised to different levels for different depths of soil.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Williams, John Scott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mop Holder (open access)

Mop Holder

Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Anderson, Isaac Nerie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier-Frame for Baskets. (open access)

Carrier-Frame for Baskets.

Patent for a carrier frame for moving baskets up and down in a store, which does not get tangled with the basket ropes.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cameron. James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an improvement in churns that prevent splashing and extraneous matter from entering the interior, including illustrations.
Date: September 10, 1901
Creator: Mills, John David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c (open access)

Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c

Patent for combined closer and latch for gates. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: McKinney, Pleasant M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. This invention is a class of rotary dasher churns using two paddles. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Roberts, Chandler Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts the stalks with a sliding cut and has multiple blades that are adjustable.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Henry, Reeves
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Holder. (open access)

Bolt-Holder.

Patent for improvements in bolt-holders by “providing a combined bolt-holder and screw-driver…. in which the hook or engaging member is quickly and conveniently adjustable to any angle to allow the tool to be employed in various positions to engage bolts set.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Carter, Hiram C.
System: The Portal to Texas History