Detachable Neck Yoke (open access)

Detachable Neck Yoke

Patent for a detachable neck yoke. Illustrations included.
Date: May 10, 1910
Creator: Barry, John, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fender for Cultivators. (open access)

Fender for Cultivators.

Patent for a fender for cultivators or cotton choppers.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Foster, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow to be used with a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Wolfe, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton.

Patent for an apparatus that cleans burs and other foreign matter from cotton through a suction process prior to ginning, including instructions and illustrations. The inventor claims this apparatus is simpler, more affordable, and more effective than previous methods for cleaning cotton.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Brown, Thomas N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment for Lister-plows (open access)

Colter Attachment for Lister-plows

Patent for a colter attachment (triangular blade used on lister plows), by capitalizing on parts that should already exist on the plow.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Mosely, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester. (open access)

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
Fruit Cutting Implement. (open access)

Fruit Cutting Implement.

Patent for a fruit cutting implement with increased safety measures to help users avoid "the usual and dangerous practice of cutting the lemons with a knife" (lines 23 - 24), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1918
Creator: Davis, Mack H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight. (open access)

Dirigible Headlight.

Patent for dirigible headlights for automobiles which pivot in the direction of steering while maintaining an independent tilt adjustment.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Crumpton, Enoch M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Gate. (open access)

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