Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine. (open access)

Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine.

Patent for an improvement on machines that create buttonholes and mark buttonholes. Includes illustrations.
Date: October 14, 1902
Creator: Powell, William J.; Vaughn, William H. & Rose, Isaac E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger (open access)

Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger

Patent for improvements to loose-leaf individual or general bank-ledgers, mainly pertaining to the ledger's structure and ease of use through adding leaves or sheets without disrupting current leaves or sheets. Includes illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Clamp (open access)

Wire Fence Clamp

Patent for a wire fence clamp. Illustration included.
Date: June 15, 1903
Creator: Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy (open access)

Toy

Patent for a toy. The toy is in the shape of a windmill. Illustrations included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Exline, Bena Bird; Exline, Marcus P. & Exline, Albert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism For Cleaning Seed-Cotton (open access)

Mechanism For Cleaning Seed-Cotton

Patent for mechanism for cleaning seed cotton before cotton is distributed into gins, including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sounding Toy (open access)

Sounding Toy

Patent for a sounding toy. The toy is in the form of windmill whereby an object generates noise as the wheel spins. Illustration included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Valve (open access)

Pump Valve

Patent for a pump valve. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Bassett, John Mott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed planter. This is an improvement on a previous patent, No. 693,724. Illustrations included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Ledbetter, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrically Operated Railway Crossing Gate (open access)

Electrically Operated Railway Crossing Gate

Patent for an electrically operated railway crossing gate. Illustration included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Hummel, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Hodge, Neely B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reed Organ (open access)

Reed Organ

Patent for a reed organ. Illustration included.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: England, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post (open access)

Fence Post

Patent for fence posts. This invention is designed with metal fence fabric set in concrete. Illustration included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Hughs, Wallace B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for baling-press to press bales of cotton into rectangular bales including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Taylor, George
System: The Portal to Texas History