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Cotton Ball Harvester (open access)

Cotton Ball Harvester

Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Monk, R. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rule, Square, and Miter. (open access)

Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.

Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: McFarland, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine. (open access)

Well-Drilling Machine.

Patent for a well-drilling machine with "novel and improved means for manipulating and actuating the drill cable" (lines 11-12), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles. (open access)

Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.

Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Gray, Charles B. & Teter, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs (open access)

Adjustable Tongs

Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Beyer, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for a mechanism to lock a nut in place on a bolt that also automatically releases when a wrench is applied to turn the nut.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Edwards, Whitfield H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Propelled Truck. (open access)

Self-Propelled Truck.

Patent for a self-propelled truck that has free-turning movement, independent of the truck frame, and has a body that "may be low down and straight from end to end" (lines 29-30). This patent includes illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Hoag, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine. (open access)

Flying-Machine.

Patent for a new flying machine which uses compact, "artificially produced air currents" (lines 11-12), including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Tiner, John Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods. (open access)

Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods.

Patent for a rod sleeve to protect the rod joints from damage or bending. The design also includes rollers to keep the rods centered in the casing to eliminate rubbing.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Black, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater. (open access)

Water-Heater.

Patent for a water heater for use in small spaces. This water heater heats water rapidly and is less costly as well as smaller than a standard boiler.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Damm, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie (open access)

Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie

Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Thweatt, Robert Whitley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Setting Machine (open access)

Valve Setting Machine

Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Steam Engine (open access)

Improvements in Steam Engine

Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Dickson, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Callihan. Willie H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milking Apparatus (open access)

Milking Apparatus

Patent for a milking apparatus. This invention is designed to imitate the action of hand milking or a calf's sucking. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer (open access)

Spirometer

Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Deen, Irwin Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Apparatus (open access)

Bale Forming Apparatus

Patent for a bale forming apparatus. This invention is designed as an improvement to existing bale-forming apparatus.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Anderson, William E.; Dyer, Frank L. & Workum, Julius F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a farm gate, which can be opened from a vehicle and stays open until a second operation is performed to close the gate.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Matthews, Joseph William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe (open access)

Pipe

Patent for pipe. It is designed to insulate against heat and cold for all forms of fluid conveying pipes.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Berger, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Word Counting Attachment for Type Writers (open access)

Word Counting Attachment for Type Writers

Patent for a word counting attachment for type writers.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Coleman, James G. & Wilhite, Luther
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Rigging for Railway Cars (open access)

Draft Rigging for Railway Cars

Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Saling, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History