Box for Presses (open access)

Box for Presses

Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Galbraith, Oscar B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Attachment. (open access)

Buggy-Top Attachment.

Patent for improvements in "the construction of buggy-top attachments and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be easily and quickly attached to and detached from the top of a buggy or other vehicle and capable of forming a complete extension of the same to protect the occupants of the vehicle from the weather" (lines 11-18), including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Stockton, Harris C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Pulley. (open access)

Well-Pulley.

Patent for a new and improved well pulley, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1900
Creator: Foster, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speculum (open access)

Speculum

Patent for an improved version of the speculum, a gynecological instrument, including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1900
Creator: Morrow, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post driver (open access)

Post driver

Patent for a portable post driver.
Date: March 16, 1900
Creator: Armstrong, Joseph Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder For Cultivators (open access)

Rein-Holder For Cultivators

Patent for a rein-holder for field cultivation.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Stockton, James Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for a "pounder" washing machine that can be easily repaired and operated with little effort. Illustrations included.
Date: August 7, 1900
Creator: Bolton, George William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a new cotton chopper with improvements that have the ability to raise or lower the height of the blades and keep them nearly horizontal to the ground, including illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Smith, Gilbert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History