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Cotton-Picker.
Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Adkins, Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving-Rein Guard.
Patent for a driving rein guard in order to hold the reins of a draft animal.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Sibley, Alexander B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine.
Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Dyer, Charles V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sheet-music holder. This design consists "[i]n a music-holder, the combination of the base-board, the tension arms, the frictional spiral-swings, the plates perforated to receive the screw, and having the countersunk perforation to receive the knots in the ends of the elastic cords, and the knot receiver" (lines 50-55).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Frampton, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie and Brace
Patent for a rail tie and brace. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Frampton, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Joint and Chair
Patent for a railroad joint and chair. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Hooper, William N. & Sunday, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tooth-Bender.
Patent for a tooth bender for band saw teeth, which keeps the teeth in place for use and for grinding.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Dell Ge Bott, Jay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash.
Patent for a window sash, which can have window panes installed in it without the use of putty.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Perkins, Wallace P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History