Portable Bathing Apparatus (open access)

Portable Bathing Apparatus

Patent for a portable device that provides the ability to bathe using heated water.
Date: November 30, 1917
Creator: Richards, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for an improved gate design.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Jenson, J. S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound. (open access)

Egg-Preserving Compound.

Patent for a mixture of chemical for preserving eggs; ingredients, measurement and instruction are in included. No illustration.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Brooks, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drag (open access)

Drag

Patent for a ground drag for "grading and removing refuse from the surface of the soil" (lines 10-12) that can be steered and that can gather and dispose of the dirt it levels off, including illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Nelson, Charley E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound. (open access)

Egg-Preserving Compound.

Patent for a new compound to be used for the preservation of eggs which lists the ingredients and proportions.
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Jurgens, Nils Colling.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Incline Wrecking-Frog. (open access)

Double-Incline Wrecking-Frog.

Patent for a wrecking-frog that has "a minimum of weight and maximum of strength and durability, which will accurately guide a derailed wheel to replacement upon the track and which is also equally adapted to derailing a train, car or other vehicle when an occasion arises rendering derailment necessary or expedient" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Mooney, Patrick T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cushion Tire. (open access)

Cushion Tire.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in cushion tires for vehicle wheels" (Lines 12-13), including illustrations.
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Gunn, Daniel G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer. (open access)

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an improved cotton packer, which automatically restarts when it finishes a bale.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Cass, Eral B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Knocker. (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Knocker.

Patent for improvements in cotton-stalk knockers. This invention "relates to cotton-knockers, and more particularly to a device of this class which may be readily attached to or combined with a wheeled cultivator of usual form" (lines 11-14). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: June 5, 1900
Creator: Chitty, Robert Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk-Breaking Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Stalk-Breaking Machine.

Patent for a simple and economical stalk breaking machine "which shall admit of the team straddling the adjoining row, and the driving wheel to run in the furrow or stubble" (lines 11-13). The driver sits on one side so they do not get hit with debris. The frame and stalk breakers mechanism are mounted on the running gear of a mower or reaper, and is easily disconnected.
Date: June 26, 1894
Creator: Grimland, Yeren & Ringness, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for the improvement of cultivators by allowing the attached shovels to have wider range of motion and customization.
Date: September 28, 1915
Creator: Braune, Friedrich
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cotton-Cleaning Cultivator Attachment

Patent for improvements to cotton-cleaning cultivators. The improved cultivator "is designed for cleaning cotton or similar crops so as to eliminate the necessity of hoeing cotton," (line 14-16) uproot unwanted surrounding plants, and level ridges formed while cultivating cotton.
Date: December 29, 1917
Creator: Hasting, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chopper-handle, of the notched-roller, the mortised cross-beam, having the pivot across its mortise or hole, and the spring, attached to an upright, and the handle, whereby the chopper may be operated" (lines 73-78).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Pettitt, Francis Alexander.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a machine to thin and cultivate cotton plants without covering them with debris. Designed to be used with most cultivators and to be inexpensive to construct.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Gunn, Jc. Christon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper or Blocker. (open access)

Cotton Chopper or Blocker.

Patent for an invention that provides a wheeled carriage, or supporting frame, to support cotton choppers, or similar devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Cunningham, Jasper V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History