Tongue Bar Adjusting Mechanism. (open access)

Tongue Bar Adjusting Mechanism.

Patent for "a new and useful tongue-bar-adjusting mechanism for piano" (line 2) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1900
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Mechanism. (open access)

Air-Brake Mechanism.

Patent for "a new and useful air-brake mechanisms in relation to a pressure controller and distributer designed to perform the several independent and joint functions of a triple valve, a pressure-retaining valve, and a pressure relief or reducing valve."
Date: May 29, 1900
Creator: Dillander, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevating-Truck. (open access)

Elevating-Truck.

Patent for invention to "improve the construction of elevating-trucks and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive apparatus adapted to be readily moved from one place to another and capable of enabling bales, boxes and the like to be readily lifted from the ground or other supporting-surface and raised to a convenient position for loading such freight upon a wagon or other conveyance" (p. 1, lines 10-18).
Date: September 14, 1900
Creator: Penick, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press (open access)

Cotton-Press

Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Hanging Apparatus. (open access)

Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.

Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Cloud, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking Tool (open access)

Wireworking Tool

Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Dickey, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvement to cylindrical baling-press for packing cotton, cotton-seed hulls, bran and similar objects into cylindrical bales, including illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester Attachment. (open access)

Harvester Attachment.

Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Marshall, John Henry.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner for Stoves or Furnaces (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner for Stoves or Furnaces

Patent for invention that relates to improvements in hydrocarbon-burner for stoves or furnaces or the like, the same being more especially intended for the consumption of crude oils... Among other things the invention has for its object the provision of an improved burner in which the liquid is vaporized within a confined space by causing it to splash upon a suitable obstacle and against the inner surface of a heated air-tube; to heat the air as it passes to the burner and to commingle the vapor and heated air so as to obtain an economical and combustible mixture (Greene, 1902).
Date: December 27, 1901
Creator: Greene, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor. (open access)

Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor.

Patent for an improved wheel cultivator, which includes a planter attachment, a hopper, a seed-dropping and fertilizer distributing mechanism, and covering plows.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Bigler, B. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "...a Bailing-Press for Making Cylindrical Bales of Cotton..." (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener (open access)

Can Opener

Patent for can-opener which uses a fulcrum point that pierces the center of the can's lid and a circular blade to cut an opening around the circumference.
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Pierce, Jesse Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling - Press. (open access)

Baling - Press.

Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Curry, Monroe & Roberts, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for cotton-choppers in which it can be converted into cultivators; the height and sweep of the rotary chopper can be adjusted. The depth of penetration of the cultivator-shovels can also be adjusted independently without affecting other part of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Talley, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner. Invention relates for the use with fireboxes of domestic ranges and stoves.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Rumple, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for Baling Press
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Jones, Isaac V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for a wheel which joins the spokes to a metal sleeve surrounding the hub of the wheel.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Votaw, Charles Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine

Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Steinmann, Herman Werner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement (open access)

Agricultural Implement

Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Herrod, Howard H., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Joyce, Andrew Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Grubbs, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidering Attachment For Sewing Machines (open access)

Embroidering Attachment For Sewing Machines

Patent for an emboidering attachment for sewing machines. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Johnson, Billie
System: The Portal to Texas History