Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a better support device than previous churns.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Hyland, George Tolifaro
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for attachment for cultivators. The invention allows a cultivator's shovel to be spaced apart to facilitate the plowing of corn, cotton, and other similar products.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Jez, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a sulky cultivator.
Date: March 1, 1910
Creator: Bunnell, Marcellus Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Drier (open access)

Clothes Drier

Patent for a clothes drier. Illustration included.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Bird, Fred E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved cotton-chopper, which includes a vertical swinging movement, as well as a wheel at its base which, and has a chopper shaft that may be depressed by the feet of the operator so that the chopper can operate even on uneven ground.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Baker, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cream-Separators. (open access)

Attachment for Cream-Separators.

A patent for a strainer rack attachment "which is cheap and simple in construction, which may be very readily attached to the milk bowl supporting stand, and by means of which a strainer may be arranged over the milk bowl or turned back out of the way as desired." (lines 22-27)
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Miller, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rule and Square. (open access)

Combined Rule and Square.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Combined Rules and Squares which makes it "possible to form a rigid straight rule or one or more rigid squares" (lines 24-25), including illustration and instructions.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Grossman, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a vertical dash butter churn with a frame that allows for removal of the receptacle with dash parts still attached to the frame, including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Collins, Edward L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Binder Attachment for Hay Presses (open access)

Automatic Binder Attachment for Hay Presses

Patent for automatic binder attachment for hay presses with accompanying illustrations of the patent.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Trigg, John B & Hill, William E
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Lime. (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Lime.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Walsh, Patrick A. & Walsh, Edward J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjusting and Locking Device for Skid Chains. (open access)

Adjusting and Locking Device for Skid Chains.

Patent for anti-skid chains for use on automobile wheels and tires which may be locked to prevent slipping.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Boyd, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Attachment (open access)

Automobile Attachment

Patent for an automobile attachment designed to utilize the power produced by motorized engines for various farming implements.
Date: September 23, 1919
Creator: Klima, J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waterproof Car-Door. (open access)

Waterproof Car-Door.

Patent for a freight car door of "strong, durable, and inexpensive construction which will be water and air tight, and which will be practically indestructible in case of a wreck" (lines 17-20) including illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1918
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watering-Trough. (open access)

Watering-Trough.

Patent for a valve that controls the flow of drinking water from a reservoir or tank into a trough. It can be operated by domestic animals and automatically shuts off when they are finished drinking.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Crushing Cotton-Bolls (open access)

Machine for Crushing Cotton-Bolls

Patent for a tool to improve cotton processing machines.
Date: February 8, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Work Clamp. (open access)

Work Clamp.

Patent for an improved work clamp. The inventor claimed that the clamp was meant to be universal, allowing for several clamped pieces of material to be secured simultaneously for welding or other joining methods. The tool was meant to facilitate complex construction in a variety of machinery repair facilities and markets.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Treuthardt, Arnold Charles
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
Attachment for Cultivators &c (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators &c

Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for cultivators.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: Janosek, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Popper (open access)

Corn Popper

Patent for corn-popper improvement by connecting to the cover of the popper a rotating agitating blade which would prevent the corn within from burning.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Zschiesche, William H. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Starting Device for Engines (open access)

Starting Device for Engines

Patent for a starting device for automobile engines. Illustrations included.
Date: September 3, 1912
Creator: Roberts, James O. & Nunn, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Punch. (open access)

Punch.

Patent for a punch tool used for cutting metal or other objects. The tool’s construction includes pivoted handles and an anvil block for efficient punching with “minimum application of pressure” (lines 13-14).
Date: December 30, 1913
Creator: Cuba, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine (open access)

Internal Combustion Engine

Patent for internal combustion engine.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Box, Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land Marker (open access)

Land Marker

Patent for land markers that can be used as guides such as for planting.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Bland, Royal H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Shoe (open access)

Planter Shoe

Patent for a planter shoe. Illustration included.
Date: August 16, 1910
Creator: Pogue, Steward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History