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Corn Planter
Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Robinson, Charles William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Plows
Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Wilke, Ernest
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake-Setting Appliance
Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Barrel.
Patent for a collapsible barrel for use in shipping.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Lemly, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Stewart, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter
Patent for a cheese cutter. Illustration included.
Date:
September 13, 1904
Creator:
Martin, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Frame.
Patent for a canopy frame for any kind of drapery, including mosquito nets. The design is purported to be inexpensive and strong, using a thin metal support for the crossbeams.
Date:
July 13, 1901
Creator:
Johnston, Washington T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvesting Machine
Patent for a corn harvesting machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 13, 1909
Creator:
Tilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Operator
Patent for a Churn Operator. This device contains specifications for operating churn-dashers, as well as improvements for the established churn operator.
Date:
April 13, 1905
Creator:
Ham, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover.
Patent for "new and Improved Churn-Cover" (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1906
Creator:
Hogue, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Measuring Instrument
Patent for a combination measuring instrument. Illustration included.
Date:
September 13, 1904
Creator:
Terry, William Blake
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack And Support Therefor
Patent for a cotton picker's sack and support therefor. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Clark, Isom J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper that can also chop or cut corn, cane, broom-corn, peas, or any similar plants that are planted thick in drills or rows. This particular chopper includes an approved arrangement and adjustment of the chopping-blades that can be set to cut at different angles.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
McKee, Jacob Rufus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Apparatus.
Patent for a new cotton-handling apparatus with cleaning mechanisms and a storage-house, including illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1906
Creator:
Tidwell, Albert F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine
Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date:
September 2, 1902
Creator:
Fender, John Brown
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails
Patent for "fish-plates and bed-plates so constructed that rails can be secured in place without the necessity of making holes in the ends of the rails [...]; and the object is to simplify rail-joints and make the ends of the abutting rails stronger and to repair broken rails" (lines 10-17).
Date:
October 6, 1902
Creator:
Crawford, William, R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet
Patent for a cabinet. Illustration included.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Dorsey, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp.
Patent for a new clamp to improve support functionality in household construction, including illustration.
Date:
February 13, 1906
Creator:
Stevens, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate Or Coop
Patent for a crate or coop. This invention is connected at the corners possessing a removable bottom along with a readily detachable cover. Illustration included.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Sperling, Ellsworth
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 13, 1909
Creator:
Freeze, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle-guard mounted on cross-ties and braces with exposed wires to permit identification of damaged wires and to be readily repaired without disturbing the remaining wires, which lists the parts for construction and illustration.
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Meador, Edgar T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing Point or Strainer.
Patent for casing point or strainer "particularly adapted for use in oil and Artesian wells... which will permit free circulation of the liquid around the lower portion of the casing and free and easy entrance of the same into the casing, and yet will prevent entrance of sand and gravel into the casing" (Lines 12-22).
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Carlson, Andrew Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Analgetic Bandage.
Patent for a new and useful "analgetic bandage for curing headaches and oher disorders of the nervous system" (line 5-7) including illustrations.
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Ray, Thomas L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Press and Feeder
Patent for an automatic cotton press and feeder operated by fluid pressure. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bernard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History