Boll-Weevil Catcher. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Catcher.

Patent for agricultural devices and more particularly to a device to be attached to a cultivator for catching boll weevil or the like, during the cultivation of cotton.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Stanalan, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a tool that can be used for fence construction by stretching the wires to the desired tension, or for repairing fences by crimping the slack in the wires. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Gardner, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel that has hub casings, which keep the lubricating oil inside and dirt outside.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Tatum, Franklin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
Date: July 5, 1873
Creator: Müller, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "is to provide an engine or apparatus . . . in pumps of that class known as "force-pumps" . . . which is simple and durable in construction, and which is of large working capacity. . . . [The design] attain[s] the purposes of [the] invention by . . . the pump-buckets or caging and that part of the delivering-pipe containing the . . . valves in the plungers . . . [and] the ball-valves" (lines 9-28).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Sparks, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Laying Apparatus (open access)

Track-Laying Apparatus

Patent for a track laying apparatus to be adapted to a self-propelled car or truck. Illustrations included.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Leon, Creed
System: The Portal to Texas History