Cotton Checker and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Checker and Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton checkers and cultivators by “providing a device in which the width of the hills or rows may be adjusted to suit the requirements of various grades of soil.” (Lines 15-17) Another improvement is to provide a “means to which the plows of the cultivator may be simultaneously raised or lowered, and when so raised or lowered may be kept in their adjusted positions.” (Lines 19-22) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Checker and Cultivator

Patent for a cotton checker and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Hamilton, Robert & Humble, Henry O. V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for kitchen use such as cooking. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Billing and Journal Sheet. (open access)

Combined Billing and Journal Sheet.

Patent for improvements in combined billing and journal sheets there by each sheet in the journal will serve as a billing sheet, a duplicate billing sheet, and a journal page at the same time. (Lines 18-20) Further, the bound book will serve as a permanent journal after the bills have been removed. (Lines 25-26) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Hartley, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism.

Patent for improvements in automatic time-controlled operating mechanisms by using a combination of a spring-actuated rotary disk, a clock mechanism, and co-acting cams to automatically operating at predetermined times, electric switches and other devices, such as locking and unlocking doors of warehouses. Illustration is included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Chappel, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cot-Frame (open access)

Cot-Frame

Patent for a cot frame designed to accommodate two people. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Shelton, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Support and Bracket for Shade-Rollers and Curtains (open access)

Adjustable Support and Bracket for Shade-Rollers and Curtains

Patent for a support for roller shades and window curtains. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Johnson, Thomas E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pressure Valve (open access)

Back-Pressure Valve

Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Neighbors, Charles C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch and Transmission Mechanism (open access)

Clutch and Transmission Mechanism

Patent for a clutch and transmission mechanism to be used for automobiles. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch and Transmission Mechanism (open access)

Clutch and Transmission Mechanism

Patent for a clutch and transmission mechanism for automobiles which strengthens the load bearing of the clutch and allows greater flexibility in changing the load.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash. (open access)

Window-Sash.

Patent for a windows sash, which does not require the use of putty to hold the window pane in place and allows for easy removal and replacement of the window pane.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Polson, George T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill Machine. (open access)

Well-Drill Machine.

Patent for improvements in well-drill machine by improving its operating and feed mechanisms.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Anthony, Russell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission Mechanism. (open access)

Transmission Mechanism.

Patent for a transmission mechanism which "provides an improved mechanism by which the motion of of a drive shaft rotating at an uniform speed may be transmitted to a driven shaft at variable speeds and also to provide for the reversal of the driven shaft at different speeds" (lines 8-14).
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Jameson, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner. Illustration included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Colligan, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon-burners by providing “a burner constructed to cause a complete combustion, a more intense heat, and to obviate to a marked degree, the noise occasioned by the down draft and the combustion.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Rork, Clare M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Starting and Stopping Device for Gas and other Engines. (open access)

Starting and Stopping Device for Gas and other Engines.

Patent for an improved starting and stopping mechanism for gas or other engines.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Ellis, Thomas William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow. (open access)

Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow.

Patent for improvements in middle-breakers and turning-plows by providing an attachment for the middle breakers or turning plow, in which it will permit lateral adjustment of the wheel, by the use of a compound axle of adjustable length. (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Armstrong, Josiah B. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper File and Binder. (open access)

Paper File and Binder.

Patent for a paper file and binder, which is expandable for varying amounts of pages and holds the papers firmly in the binder, but also allows easy removal.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Springall, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco-Pipe. (open access)

Tobacco-Pipe.

Patent for improvements in tobacco-pipes by providing “an improved construction of pipe having means for filtering the smoke, and means whereby the nicotine and tar from the tobacco will be absorbed and prevented from entering the stem of the pipe.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment. (open access)

Plow Attachment.

Patent for a plow attachment by using a socket adapted to be clamped in position upon the beam (line 15). “Plow equipped with the attachment may be used at a straddle-row cultivator, or a middle furrow cultivator, and that the teeth may be so arranged as to cast the soil toward or away from the plants, as occasion may require” (lines 35-40). Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Farrington, Johnathan William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Target-Throwing-Device (open access)

Target-Throwing-Device

Patent for a target throwing device which is an enhanced tool to efficiently target objects and is most useful for marksmen, including illustrations.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Fridell, L.A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grass-Destroyer (open access)

Grass-Destroyer

Patent for a grass destroyer designed to remove unwanted vegetation. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Nelson, George Abner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine (open access)

Washing Machine

Patent for a washing machine. This invention consists of cooperating rotary rubbers.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Hollingsworth, James Hollis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie. (open access)

Railway-Tie.

Patent for improvements in tailway-tie by “the provision of a clamping plate terminating at one end in a pair of spaced brackets that extend over the base flange of the rail, the said clamping plate being held in engagement with the base flange of the rail by a pair of spaced lugs formed with the top plate of the tie and which bear against the rear end of the clamping plate. Further, this would give greater strength and stability to the proper by seating the rail flange directly upon the top plate of the tie instead of upon the clamping plates.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included. This patent is related to Patent #865,354, issued on September 10, 1907 to the same inventor.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Brister, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History