Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders (open access)

Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders

Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weather-Strip. (open access)

Weather-Strip.

Patent for an improved door weather strip and stop. The device atuates to be both a door stop and a weather strip.
Date: May 28, 1919
Creator: Campbell, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil (open access)

Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil

Patent for a process to refine oil, specifically crude, cotton-seed oil, using caustic soda. Includes an explanation of how the process works.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar. (open access)

Grate-Bar.

Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Wilderspin, Anderson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat. (open access)

Thermostat.

Patent for an improved and automatic thermostat tool to regulate temperature including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1915
Creator: Royall, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Confections. (open access)

Process of Producing Confections.

Patent for a novelty method of packaging confections and similar snacks in an edible packaging resembling a baseball.
Date: July 28, 1919
Creator: Cressey, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Cleaner and Distributor (open access)

Seed-Cotton Cleaner and Distributor

Patent for seed cotton cleaner and distributor, important for its ability to raise cotton plants into the air and clean them as they are fed into receptacles.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Waist Adjuster. (open access)

Garment-Waist Adjuster.

Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Hurst, Albert K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Heater (open access)

Electric Heater

Patent for an electric heater that is insulated from foreign bodies or fluids. Illustrations included.
Date: February 28, 1911
Creator: Harvie, Arthur H. & Davis, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book. (open access)

Account-Book.

Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
System: The Portal to Texas History