Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a combined cotton-chopper and cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Forister, John H. & McAda, James N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Scraper. (open access)

Tongue-Scraper.

Patent for improvements in tongue-scrapers in which it will “not only used for scraping the coating from the tongue, but also for removing the small particles from the papillae which remain after the scraping operation.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date: April 8, 1902
Creator: Hagerty, Ida
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Follower for Packing Sauer-kraut, &c. (open access)

Follower for Packing Sauer-kraut, &c.

Patent for new improvements for devices for producing pressure for sauer-kraut or other food products needing pressure.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Ira I. Newfield
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weeder (open access)

Weeder

Patent for an invention "to provide a simple, light, and durable implement which will effectually remove weeds, rubbish, and all foreign matter simultaneously from each side of a row or drill of corn, cotton, or other plants and direct the removed material to the longitudinal center of the row or drill" (lines 8-14).
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Lloyd, William Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Lunatic Asylum Annual Report: 1902 (open access)

Texas State Lunatic Asylum Annual Report: 1902

Annual report of the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, providing data about operations, updates about programs, and other information related to activities at the institution.
Date: 1902
Creator: Texas State Lunatic Asylum
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separable Button or Stud. (open access)

Separable Button or Stud.

Patent for invention that relates to seperable buttons or studs - such as collar and cuff buttons, shirt-studs and the like of that which the article comprises a back or base portion provided with a stem or coupling member and a head provided the means to coact therewith,... (Vrendendurgh, 1902).
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Vrendenburgh, J. L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ledger. (open access)

Ledger.

Patent for improvements in ledgers by giving each column in a ledger sheet a “label” such as customer’s name, daily entry, daily balance, monthly balance and etc… to record daily and monthly transactions of an individual customer's account. Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Winn, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Snap (open access)

Snap

Patent for improvements in snaps including an eye for a strap to pass through for gripping.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Wroe, Hiram A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History