Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Divin, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dipper-Trip for Steam-Shovels (open access)

Dipper-Trip for Steam-Shovels

Patent for a dipper trip for steam shovels. Illustrations included.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Watson, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressing-Machine. (open access)

Compressing-Machine.

Patent for a compressing machine for pressing plastic, cotton, and cotton seeds.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Baade, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, where the hoes rotate in an elliptical shape rather than a circle.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Gibson, Rupert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide. (open access)

Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.

Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Hoxworth, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with mechanically operated hoes that go in an ellipse across the ground.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Gibson, Rupert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Topper (open access)

Cotton Topper

Patent for a cotton topper. This invention is designed to deal with weeds and is attached to the frame of an ordinary cultivator or plow. Illustrations included
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Bickers, Lucius T. & Lee, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved cotton-chopper.
Date: April 23, 1912
Creator: Leubner, Carl W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling (open access)

Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling

Patent for an apparatus for forming cotton batting into dense rolls to prepare them for bailing and pressing. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Banister, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cable Clip or Hanger (open access)

Cable Clip or Hanger

Patent for invention of improvements of cable clips or hangers.
Date: January 2, 1912
Creator: Davidson, Charles G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1910
Creator: Weber, Charles Wile
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Box Clip. (open access)

Cigar-Box Clip.

Patent for an inexpensive improvement to cigar box clips or clamps, that will make it easier for the box to be left open at a tilted angle, for the purpose of displaying the cigars or other objects inside.
Date: November 21, 1911
Creator: Holder, Andrew Thomas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for the revolving hoe type of cotton chopper which allows steering to laterally adjust the hoe shaft, including instructions and illustrations. Addition features include breakable shanks to prevent the hoe from being damaged when hitting an obstruction, and for these parts to be durable and inexpensive to construct.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Noblett, Adoniram J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cake Cloth Remover and Truck Loader. (open access)

Cake Cloth Remover and Truck Loader.

Patent for a cake cloth remover and truck loader which can mechanically remove the press cloth from cotton and linseed cakes and deliver the cakes for loading on a truck.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Lowry, Walter Jack
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Actuating Mechanism (open access)

Churn-Actuating Mechanism

Patent for a churn actuated mechanism that is operated by means of a rocking chair.
Date: October 9, 1914
Creator: Jones, Erastus T. & Stanton, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaporative Cooler. (open access)

Evaporative Cooler.

Patent for an evaporative cooler/refrigerator that is cooled by the evaporation of water with ventilating tubes to maintain the air condition in shelves. Water is adapted to move through a "cloth, flowing downwardly therethrough and being evaporated therefrom to thereby effectually cool the articles disposed within the refrigerator" (lines 28-31). This patent includes illustrations
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Henderson, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker. (open access)

Nutcracker.

Patent for a nutcracker that can crack all kinds of nuts, with relatively little force, on appropriate surfaces like tables. The Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1914
Creator: Fort, Foster W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agitator. (open access)

Agitator.

Patent for an improved device to produce a useful agitation of liquid in washing machines by configuring the paddles or blades in the most effective manner, including illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1915
Creator: Babek, Aloysius S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to cotton choppers and the primary object of the invention is to provide a cotton chopper which may be mounted upon any cultivator frame and which will operate easily and efficiently to thin out standing cotton or other plants which are growing in rows" (lines 5-15).
Date: December 7, 1915
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp. (open access)

Arc-Lamp.

Patent for an arc lamp that features a spring operated clutch mechanism for the upper electrode.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Williams, Theron H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Hobble (open access)

Cultivator-Hobble

Patent for an improved cultivator hobble, including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1917
Creator: Hackfeld, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain and Shade Bracket. (open access)

Curtain and Shade Bracket.

Patent for curtain and shade bracket which is readily secured to the window frame without marring the same and which is provided with adjustable means for attaching the shade and also for attaching the curtain pole, whereby from a single fixture the window shade and curtain may be suspended.
Date: October 2, 1917
Creator: Walker, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Perry, Cornelius Doctor & Wosnig, Walter, E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Trull, Harvey L.
System: The Portal to Texas History