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Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and a cultivator.This invention allows for the raising and lowering the cultivator teeth. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Robertson, Newton K. & Jones, Isaac W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with adjustable hoe positions.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Hudson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace. (open access)

Bed-Brace.

Patent for bed braces that tighten the mattress support wires in a bed frame. These bed braces securely keep their position and allow easy adjustments.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Lockett, Wyatt W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Lewis, Joseph Wesley & Phillips, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composite Railway-Tie. (open access)

Composite Railway-Tie.

Patent for a railway tie made from concrete and iron, which is more durable than previous ties of this type.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Smith, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Gum (open access)

Bee-Gum

Patent for a bee hive which has multiple compartments which the bees can travel through and, when keeper wants to remove honey all the bees can be sent into one compartment to avoid the danger of being stung. It also has ventilation and rain protection.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Caperton, William Elson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. The invention utilizes wire-winding reel and gear-wheels Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Curtis, Zenas Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine. (open access)

Wire-Coiling Machine.

Patent for a a wire coiling machine, which can make wire coils out of different types of wires for use in making doormats.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine. (open access)

Wire-Coiling Machine.

Patent for a coil wiring machine, which is affordable to make and efficient in operation.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Tube (open access)

Well Tube

Patent for a well tube. "This invention relates to well pumps and particularly to a suction attachment for use in conjunction with the strainers of pumps of that character wherein a piston is operatively arranged within an outflow pipe" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Medlock, Augustus Lafayette
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Pump (open access)

Well Pump

Patent for a well pump. "This invention relates to well-pumps of that character wherein a piston is operatively arranged within an outflow-pipe and having an automatically - closed bottom check - valve opened by the suction produced" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Medlock, Augustus L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree (open access)

Whiffletree

Patent for a whiffletree. This invention is "contemplated to construct doubletrees or swingletrees of peculiar form and provided with peculiar connecting parts to secure the same together" (line 13-16). Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Burton, Robert Redmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Distilling Apparatus (open access)

Water Distilling Apparatus

Patent for a water distilling apparatus. This invention is designed for condensing steam into distilled water. Additionally, the design is meant to separate empyreumatic gases from the water vapor during the distillation process. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Lazenby, Robert S. & Lazenby, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a stalk cutter that easily attaches to various farm equipment with wheels.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller. (open access)

Stalk-Puller.

Patent for a stalk puller that is adaptable to different size stalks, better built, and more efficient than previous stalk pullers.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Richardson, Columbus John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Puller (open access)

Stalk Puller

Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Smith, Cullen Rogers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Condenser. (open access)

Steam-Condenser.

Patent for a steam condenser, which performs the function of a re-boiler to remove harmful gases from water during the process of making ice.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Pendleton, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switching Device (open access)

Switching Device

Patent for switching devices. This invention is for electrically operated switch tongue throwing mechanisms and is for use in switching cars from one track to another. illustrations included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Makley, John N.; Manett, Edward F. & Dannelly, Frank M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Setting Machine (open access)

Tire Setting Machine

Patent for a tire setting machine. This invention is designed for setting tires that are cold. Illustrations included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Baker, Charles Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Skinning Fruit. (open access)

Process of Skinning Fruit.

Patent for skinning fruit chemically without the use of Alum to avoid harmful health effects resulting from Alum residue on fruit.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Thompson, Jovita Boyd
System: The Portal to Texas History
Split Pulley. (open access)

Split Pulley.

Patent for split pulleys with interlocking parts that can be attached together without pulling the parts longitudinally.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Frank, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Flue. (open access)

Stove-Flue.

Patent for a stove flue that is more secure in attachment, easier to clean, and is more fireproof to prevent burning of wood parts in the building that the flue is installed in.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Thompson, Everett E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Easterling, Robert William; King, T. J. & Wood, S. V.
System: The Portal to Texas History