Seal-Padlock (open access)

Seal-Padlock

Patent for a seal padlock, designed to "render it absolutely impossible to gain access to the interior of the lock" (lines 12-14). Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Abrams, Frederic
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for a bedstead on rubber wheels which allows easy removal of the wheels to fit the bed through narrow doorways.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Blacknell, Elihu
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to mounted on a cultivator carriage. It also provides detachable devices by which the cotton chopping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Cowart, Stephen A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hopple (open access)

Cultivator Hopple

Patent for a cultivator hopple. The hopple is a device for shifting beams of cultivators for the purpose of adjusting plows. Illustrations included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Cowart, Stephen A.
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for an improvement to the plow that allows "for holding the plow-point firmly in position upon the standard or foot without the use of bolts and nuts." (Lines 10-13)
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Johnson, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper where the chopping blades are connected to a cultivator frame, and the frame is made to reciprocate causing the cutters to chop in both directions, including illustrations
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Lancaster, Benjaman C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a stalk cutter for corn and cotton, which bends the stalks down and cuts them in that position and is capable of cutting two rows at once.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Lancaster, Benjamin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Mizell, Hardy P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switching Device (open access)

Electric Switching Device

Patent for an electric switch for railways. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Posey, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hopple (open access)

Cultivator Hopple

Patent for a cultivator hopple. This invention is for setting the plows of cultivators at suitable distances apart. Illustration included.
Date: January 22, 1907
Creator: Reeves, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History