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Tire Setting Machine
Patent for a tire setting machine. This invention is designed for setting tires that are cold. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Baker, Charles Walter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Yoke.
Patent for a cattle-yoke that is economical to make and easy to take on and off of the cow.
Date:
February 12, 1907
Creator:
Dean, George J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of a Group of Men and One Woman]
Portrait of a group of eleven formally dressed men in three rows, either standing, sitting in chairs or sitting on the floor. In the middle of the group, sitting in a chair, is one woman wearing a white dress. Photograph border includes the name and logo of the portrait studio, "Driver, Commerce, Tex."
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Driver
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat Propeller
Patent for a boat propeller. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Edgar, Samuel Nooley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator
Patent for an indicator. This invention is for keeping track of a grocer's list. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Ellis, Harley Sigal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Floyd, Ellis E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for a fumigator for spraying boll weevil insecticide on cotton, which generates the insecticide gas, sprays it while moving across the field, and keeps the gas in close proximity to the plants for a short time for thorough treatment.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Fuller, Menzo Reed
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail Crane
Patent for a mail crane. This invention is designed for the delivering sacks of mail to passing trains. Illustration included.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Hagmann, Charles C. & Fitzpatrick, Jacob C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Or Cotton Press
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Hay or Cotton Presses" (lines 4-6), including illustrations.
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay or Cotton Press
Patent for a hay or cotton press. "The invention consists, broadly stated, in a press mounted on wheels, adapting it to be hauled along a windrow in position to receive hay picked up with a fork by a man walking on the windrow side of the press." (lines 10-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shears.
Patent for improvements in shears “for use in cutting heavy materials, in which the shears can be readily operated in connection with a base-plate to slide beneath the material being cut and can be detached from said base-plate in order to permit the operation of the shears without the said base-plate.” (Lines 28-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 24, 1902
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Attachment.
Patent for "window attachments, being in the nature of means for carrying the shade-roller and lace-curtain on the upper sash and devices whereby the sashes may be locked when closed or opened to any desired extent;" (lines 8-13) and illustrations.
Date:
June 24, 1902
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post.
Patent for improvements to fence post design in which a base is added to hold the post upright while keeping it above ground to prevent deterioration from soil with illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hammer, Willie Alice
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bonnet
Patent for a bonnet. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 27, 1905
Creator:
Hancock, Mollie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greenville Herald. (Greenville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 25, Ed. 1, Friday, June 18, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Greenville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 18, 1909
Creator:
Harris, E. W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller.
Patent for a stump puller consisting of a "frame adapted to be secured to the rear end of a wagon" (lines 15-16) with a drum mounted on the frame. The drum is secured by one end of a cable, the other end of the cable "adapted to be secured to a stump, a ratchet-wheel, pawl, and lever adapted to operate said drum" (lines 18-20).
Date:
September 1, 1903
Creator:
Hawkins, Fletcher M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windlass Elevator
Patent for providing "an improved device... which is especially designed for use as a water-elevator for drawing a bucket out of a well and arranged so as to conveniently take up the slack cable and coil it upon the windlass-drum" (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Higson, Jasper S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness.
Patent for a harness, which leaves the animal's limbs free and is cleaner and easier to use.
Date:
November 24, 1908
Creator:
Holder, William Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe Thimble
Patent for a stovepipe thimble. Illustration included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Holton, Richard Tomkins
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Holding Attachment for Bottles
Patent for a device that holds a glass while hanging from a bottle. Illustration included.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Hopkins, William King
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Stand or Support for Mirrors
Patent for a mirror stand. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 28, 1909
Creator:
Humphries, Garland P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter
Patent for "agricultural implements in which a single frame is utilized to support various kinds of mechanisms, and in the present invention there is included a frame of simple and improved construction adapted for carrying and to be used in connection with earth-engaging, implements, such as harrow-teeth and cultivator blades, as well as rollers, for the purpose of crushing clods and leveling the surface of the land." (lines 8-18). Includes description and illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1905
Creator:
Johnson, Alfred Butler
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Greenville Evening Banner. (Greenville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 97, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 20, 1901
Daily newspaper from Greenville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 20, 1901
Creator:
Jones, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
March 8, 1904
Creator:
Langford, Noah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History