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Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Gresham, Louis David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Straightening AX-Handles (open access)

Apparatus For Straightening AX-Handles

Patent for apparatus for straightening ax-handles. Illustrations included.
Date: August 23, 1904
Creator: Sullivan, Stephen Dunkling
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Couch and Bath-Tub. (open access)

Combined Couch and Bath-Tub.

Patent for a new and useful combined couch and bath tub, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Smith, Samuel Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Andiron. (open access)

Andiron.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive andiron that can easily be moved and holds the logs in place. "The invention consists of an andiron having two dogs or members connected together and a fender removably connected to the front of said dogs and extending over the intervening space or opening" (lines 9-14).
Date: August 28, 1894
Creator: Grogan, John Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for improved Cotton-Chopper, with illusrations and description.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Clayton, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weather Board Gage. (open access)

Weather Board Gage.

Patent for a new and improved gauge for weatherboards. This design utilizes a guiding loop and a hinged part to create a gauge that, "after it has been attached to the house, will support at least two boards in position while they are being nailed on, before it is necessary to the move the gage [sic] into another position, and which gage will be so securely held in place that the boards can be moved back and forth without displacing it in any manner" (lines 27-34).
Date: August 9, 1881
Creator: Lawrence, John Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support for Vehicles. (open access)

Tongue Support for Vehicles.

Patent for a new and improved tongue-support for vehicles. This design "is to provide a spring for bearing downwardly upon the rear end of the tongue, and thereby raising and supporting the front end thereof, to relieve the horses' necks of the weight of the tongue, and thereby enable them to draw the wagon more readily, and with less exertion" (lines 23-29).
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Ham, Zachariah Melton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow-Cultivator. (open access)

Harrow-Cultivator.

Patent for a harrow cultivator, which can be operated on opposite sides of a row of plants at the same time.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Farris, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable and Foldable Support for Weighing-Scales (open access)

Portable and Foldable Support for Weighing-Scales

Patent for a portable and foldable support for weighing scales designed to hold the scale at any given height from ground level. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Roten, Owen Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Gatherer. (open access)

Fruit Gatherer.

Patent for a fruit gatherer whereby fruit is picked without injury to fruit or tree.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: White, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Signal. (open access)

Revolving Signal.

Patent for a new and improved revolving signal-light: "[t]he combination, with a car-axle and a shaft driven thereby, of the lateral supporting stems carrying signaling-lanterns glazed in alternating colors, a shifting-lever acting alternately upon studs or stops of the said shaft, said shaft having a sliding movement, and gearing alternately with said signal-carrying stems" (lines 82-89).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Warren, John W. & Radford, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History