Cotton-Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a cotton stalk cutter that cuts two rows at a time.
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: Leatherwood, Roy A. & Leatherwood, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap or Dip (open access)

Animal Trap or Dip

Patent for a trap for small animals. Illustrations included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Morris, Leopold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Cutter (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Cutter

Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date: January 24, 1911
Creator: Leatherwood, Roy A. & Leatherwood, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Morris, Leopold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Saw. (open access)

Combination-Saw.

Patent for improvement in combination-saws is to provide a machine in which a planer, a shaper or molder, a rip saw and a cut-off saw are operated by a single motor or engine (lines 12-14). Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1913
Creator: Hughes, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hoe and Planter (open access)

Combined Hoe and Planter

Patent for improving on the design of devices that combine a hoe and a planter for the purpose of properly placing a seed at the cutting edge of the hoe.
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Combs, Asa Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for improvements made to a baling press used to press cotton into bales. Improvements include improved construction to improve durability and efficiency, and design enhancements to the feeding belt to make retrieving the bales of cotton easier and more efficient.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Marek, Joseph J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Farming Implement. (open access)

Combination Farming Implement.

Patent for "agricultural implements and particularly to soil tilling machines of the rotary type" (lines 9-11) ... "of simple and improved construction embodying a carrying frame, a swingingly supported adjustable frame, and a rotary tilling device mounted on the swinging frame for direct engagement with the ground" (lines 13-18).
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Corbin, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench. The invention consists of a locking device to prevent the jaw from sliding. Illustration included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Fernandez, Pedro
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Oliver, Jesse L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Intermittent-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Intermittent-Operating Mechanism

Patent for intermittent-operating mechanism. This is to improve upon the automatic regulating means for windmills in regards to supplying water to a tank.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Bittner, Emil R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ladder. (open access)

Ladder.

Patent for a ladder that will allow its prop legs to be slided longitudinally of the main ladder legs to form an extension ladder.
Date: May 23, 1912
Creator: Vierheller, Paul E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Support (open access)

Portable Support

Patent for a portable support. This support improves previous portable support structures specifically based around transporting barrels or other cylindrical objects through rockers, pivoted legs, and supporting frames in order to increase movement and allow the frame to be tilted in alternate positions.
Date: March 12, 1918
Creator: Morgan, Doctor F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove and Range. (open access)

Stove and Range.

Patent for a compact combination range or stove with "a cabinet for culinary utensils" (lines 12-13). "Compartments are substantially thermally independent of each other" (lines 17-18), due to flue arrangement, reticulated baffle plate and a two-way self locking damper.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Holloway Louis Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper (open access)

Stove-Damper

Patent for stove damper to heat the cabinets evenly and thoroughly, yet allow the cabinets to remain thermally independent of each other.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Holloway, Louis Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Tool (open access)

Well Drilling Tool

Patent for improvments into the tools for boring Artesian wells.
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Schubert, Hermann F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bench Clamp (open access)

Bench Clamp

Patent for bench clamp.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Briles, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Downdraft-Stove (open access)

Downdraft-Stove

Patent for a downdraft stove. Illustrations included.
Date: November 19, 1912
Creator: Atteberry, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History