Filter For Rain Spouts (open access)

Filter For Rain Spouts

Patent for a filter for rain spouts. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Moechel, Aratine G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Signal (open access)

Railway-Signal

Patent for a railway signal that is activated when the wheels of a train pass over a switch. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Signal (open access)

Railroad Signal

Patent for a railroad signal. This invention is an improvement for signalling by the trains interaction on the rails. Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Harvey, Albert Wadkins
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Gate. (open access)

Railway-Gate.

Patent for a new and useful railway gate, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: McGregor, Montague M. & Williams, James Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Point Fastener (open access)

Plow Point Fastener

Patent for a plow point fastener. This invention is an improvement to plow point fasteners and secure the shovels to the standards of cultivator plows. Illustration included.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Stedham, William H. & Miller, John N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer. (open access)

Draft-Equalizer.

Patent for a Draft-Equalizer that will "provide a simple, convenient , and inexpensive device for equalizing the draft of wheeled cultivators." ( lines 14-16), Including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zollner, Matthes
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivator Wheel. (open access)

Cotton-Cultivator Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton cultivator wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Holloway, Willis W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Thinner. (open access)

Cotton-Thinner.

Patent for a machine that thins cotton fibers.
Date: September 12, 1899
Creator: Billingsley, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a wheeled cultivator with spring tension, a frame that can be tilted, and pivoting wheel-axles. It is an improved version of their earlier patent, number 615,775, from December 13, 1898. The cultivator can straddle multiple rows and be drawn by various numbers of livestock, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zöllner, Matthes & Zöllner, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeding-Machine. (open access)

Seeding-Machine.

Patent for a Seeding-Machine that serves as a flexible connector to cultivating devices or other frames related to seeding. In addition, the Seeding-Machine can be utilized independently, Illustrations included.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Zollner, Matthes & Zollner, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Envelop (open access)

Safety-Envelop

Patent for an envelope that cannot be removed without obvious sign of tampering.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Tabler, Jasper N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frame For Cultivators. (open access)

Frame For Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in frames for cultivators and other agricultural implements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Zollner, Matthes & Zollner, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Hartman, Gus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Fikes, Bosiar Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line. (open access)

Clothes-Line.

Patent for improvement in “pinless” clothes-lines by simplifying the construction of the garment-clasping elements to enhance the means of receiving and releasing the articles. Illustration is included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Brunner, Burel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for furnaces and ranges. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Reed, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: McGregor, Montague M. & Williams, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cleaner. (open access)

Flue-Cleaner.

Patent for a portable flue cleaner for boilers. Through a nozzle on the cleaner, the flue cleaner uses the steam from the boiler to remove dirt, dust and soot. The dirt is forced out of the boiler when the steam escapes.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Leonard, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for altering the regulating the depth of insertion into the ground, without the need of operators alighting from seat of cultivator.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Parker, Andy F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Box. (open access)

Collapsible Box.

Patent for collapsible box which uses hinges to strengthen the box and to allow the box to be collapsed easily for easy storage.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Smith, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History