Harrow Attachment For Cultivators (open access)

Harrow Attachment For Cultivators

Patent for a harrow attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Horne, Tom & Smith, Denton C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint, which can be quickly connected and uses fewer parts than other rail joints.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Krueger, Frederick William
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
Safety-Elevator. (open access)

Safety-Elevator.

Patent for a elevator with a safety feature to prevent the car from falling rapidly to the bottom of the shaft if a cable breaks.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Dunlap, Henry William & Lumbley, Joseph Slater
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
Ledger with Visible Index. (open access)

Ledger with Visible Index.

Patent for a ledger with a visible index of numbers and names with tabs to allow accounts to be looked up easily.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Kellner, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator. (open access)

Refrigerator.

Patent for a refrigerator with shelves and two layers of cooling liquids inside the walls.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Razor (open access)

Razor

Patent for a razor. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Hollon, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring. (open access)

Vehicle-Spring.

Patent for a vehicle spring with telescoping casings.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Pochyla, Adolph Arnold & King, Henry Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension Obstetrical Instrument (open access)

Extension Obstetrical Instrument

Patent for an extension obstetrical instrument used for surgery. Illustrations included.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Goshorn, Leonard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker. (open access)

Nutcracker.

Patent for a nutcracker, which does not crush the nut inside.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Fort, Foster W. & Cruger, Harry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator (open access)

Refrigerator

Patent for a refrigerator. Illustrations included.
Date: July 19, 1910
Creator: Conroy, Eliza D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Divin, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Pressing Shingles and Slabs and The Like (open access)

Machine for Pressing Shingles and Slabs and The Like

Patent for a machine designed for manufacturing shingles and other building material. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
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
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
Lock Mortiser (open access)

Lock Mortiser

Patent for a lock mortiser. The object of this invention "is to provide a light, portable machine arranged to be clamped to the work piece, so that the lock mortise as well as the key hole and the bolt opening may be conveniently cut with one adjustable of the machine" (lines 11-15). Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: New, Luke Mosely
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
Water-Purifier for Ice-Machines. (open access)

Water-Purifier for Ice-Machines.

Patent for a water purifier for ice machines that removes oil residue from the condensing process.
Date: January 31, 1911
Creator: Schrade, John Jacob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a harrow that cuts weeds at the root and pulls them out without breaking up the sod.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Halvé, Bruno
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
Liquid-Fuel Burner. (open access)

Liquid-Fuel Burner.

Patent for a liquid fuel burner that mixes air with the fuel.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Hannah, Robert L. & Hannah, Homer R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Attachment. (open access)

Lamp Attachment.

Patent for a lamp attachment that will decrease the likelihood of a lamp explosion and allow liquids to be heated over the lamp. The attachment has a top plate which prevents insects or other debris from igniting and falling into the lamp chimney, therefore decreasing the potential for a lamp explosion. The attachment also has a perforated cylinder that rests on top of the lamp chimney and can support a vessel for heating liquids.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Lehmann, Hugo
System: The Portal to Texas History