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Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Shaeffer, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Hart, Granville M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Woods, John Bell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper. (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.

Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Indicator (open access)

Automobile-Indicator

Patent for an automobile indicator which shows the license number of the car and the state in which the license was issued. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Hoaker, John & Banks, William I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer. (open access)

Cotton-Seed Conveyer.

Patent for a new and useful cotton seed conveyer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Moore, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector. (open access)

Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.

Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Spivey, Lillian Hale
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Machine (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Machine

Patent for a acetylene gas machine that automatically controls the flow of carbid or gas producing material into the generator "by means of a float and lever connection with the valve of the carbid hopper" (lines 19-21).
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Ricketts, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wrench (open access)

Automatic Wrench

Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Clay, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace (open access)

Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace

Patent for a new and useful improvement in baking, cooking, and heating furnaces. This invention "consists in the mechanism and peculiar arrangements of parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the claims" (line 13-16).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Blade (open access)

Cultivator Blade

Patent for a cultivator blade. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Harlow, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Tightener. (open access)

Band-Tightener.

Patent for a lever used to tighten the bands on bales of cotton or other materials, including illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Mullane, Dennis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn Or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and useful corn or cotton planter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Linam, John W. & Whitworth, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun or Rifle. (open access)

Automatic Gun or Rifle.

Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Douglas, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for an innovation in the combination and arrangement of parts for car-couplers including illustrations.
Date: August 7, 1900
Creator: Hawkins, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Cultivators (open access)

Attachment For Cultivators

Patent for an attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1905
Creator: Burks, Edwin H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press for hay which is more efficient at compressing the hay than previous machines.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Stopple, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topper. (open access)

Cotton-Topper.

Patent for a cotton-top trimmer that can be attached to a cultivator.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Griffith, Thomas K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for new improvements in cotton choppers which allows them to be durable and strong, yet flexible with adjustable parts to accommodate soil and growth conditions including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Gerding, Fred F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scissors or Shears. (open access)

Scissors or Shears.

Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Allison, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling (open access)

Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling

Patent for an apparatus for forming cotton batting into dense rolls to prepare them for bailing and pressing. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Banister, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History