Tooth-Bender. (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie and Brace (open access)

Rail Tie and Brace

Patent for a rail tie and brace. Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Frampton, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker. (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1905 (open access)

The Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1905

Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 21, 1905
Creator: Frazer, Lee H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Joint and Chair (open access)

Railroad Joint and Chair

Patent for a railroad joint and chair. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Hooper, William N. & Sunday, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine. (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History