Machine for Packing Cotton. (open access)

Machine for Packing Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved packer. This design consists "[i]n a cotton-packer, the combination of the frame, guides mounted therein, rack-bars moving in the said guides, a press-box and steam-cylinder, and heads secured to the rack-bars and moving in the press-box and cylinder, respectively, cog-wheels of different diameters journaled in the frame and meshing with the rack-bars, and anti-friction rollers pivoted in the guides and bearing against the rack-bars" (lines 4-13).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Brady, Farley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoe-Sharpening Device. (open access)

Hoe-Sharpening Device.

Patent for a mechanical hoe sharpening device with a holder for the hoe blade and a file that is operated by a lever.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Criddle, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tractor-Coupling (open access)

Tractor-Coupling

Patent for tractor coupling. The object of the invention is to provide a coupling for tractor and plow. When a plow hits an obstruction, the coupling will automatically disengage tractor and plow without breaking any parts.
Date: December 21, 1920
Creator: Hart, Lawrence H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for hydrocarbon-burners to provide a novel and improved burner for coal-oil, petroleum, or other liquid fuel.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Hewett, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows.

Patent for improvement in sulky attachments for plows. This invention allows farmers to "apply any kind of plow to the sulky-frame" (1).
Date: August 21, 1876
Creator: Langsford, Samuel P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ullage-Rod (open access)

Ullage-Rod

Patent for an ullage rod. Illustrations included.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Mackoy, Edgar S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Jet for Conveyers (open access)

Pneumatic Jet for Conveyers

Patent for a pneumatic jet that uses steam jets to provide power for various tasks such as distributing seed cotton or elevating coal. Illustrations included.
Date: September 21, 1909
Creator: Rice, Earley W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for an improved vertically swinging gate. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Russell, Charles, H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1051, Chapter 49 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1051, Chapter 49

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a campus of the Texas State Technical College System in Ellis County.
Date: May 21, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle for Stock. (open access)

Muzzle for Stock.

Patent for "weaning and grazing muzzles for stock, the object in view being to provide a muzzle adapted when the head of the animal is elevated to remain closed and when the head of the animal is lowered to open, and thereby permit grazing." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Wingrove, Franklin R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for an improved seed-planter "which will deposit the seeds in the requisite quantities and proper distances apart, and which will cover and mark the bills, so that a plowman will not be at a loss where to start at the commencement of a new row, and after having passed around tree-stumps or other obstructions, as he can always see the marks on the preceding rows" (lines 16-23) with illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1869
Creator: Woods, David C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History