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Abdominal Support (open access)

Abdominal Support

Patent for an abdominal support in pants which is held up by leggings.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Towns, Minnie C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that consists of “a suitable frame, a receptacle positioned within said frame, and a gas-bell” (lines 11-13), as well as a gasometer and carbide feed. As a result, the gas generator “will continually furnish dry, cool gas and at a substantially even pressure at all times” (line 22-24). Illustrations included.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Hays, Parx Orr
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calendar Clock (open access)

Calendar Clock

Patent for calendar clock. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Woods, Jesse Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. This invention is used to provide stalk-cutting the stalks and chopping of cotton. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Nicks, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Picker. (open access)

Fruit-Picker.

Patent for a handheld fruit picker, which does not injure the fruit.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Gier, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for improvement in cultivator attachments by using “a pair of cutting blades or knives adapted to be adjustably connected to the lister-beam after the plow-blades have been removed and after the planting of the field, and these knives are adapted to straddle the center row and to work down to three inches under the surface of the ground, extending half-way to the adjoining row on both sides of said center row, thus absolutely killing all grass, weeds or the like, and turning up just enough dirt to cover the scrub. By thus treating each row in succession a field may be cleared more quickly, more easily, and more thoroughly.” (Lines 15-27) Illustration is included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Pope, Henry O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for a separator for a cultivator, which allows for bringing together or forcing apart the beams of a cultivator.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Evans, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Picker (open access)

Fruit Picker

Patent for a fruit picker. This device is intended for the use of detaching fruit, consisting of various sizes, from trees. Illustrations included.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Gier, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Cooker. (open access)

Fruit-Cooker.

Patent for a fruit cooker for home use that can be heated with wood or coal and has a damper inside to change where the heat is concentrated.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Holbrook, Milo Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Gin Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Gin Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and gin feeder. This invention is designed to clean cotton of impurities and then feed the cotton into the gin. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Norris, Mishael E. & Norris, Jesse L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Sodekson, Nathan S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.

Patent for a cotton cleaning and condensing machine for cleaning cotton lint and forming it into bats of standard size. Also equipped with a fire-safety mechanism that immediately turns off the machine.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper where the chopping blades are connected to a cultivator frame, and the frame is made to reciprocate causing the cutters to chop in both directions, including illustrations
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Lancaster, Benjaman C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for cotton chopper. This invention is on a wheel mounted frame and is adjustable for cutting out sections at desired intervals. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Walter, William Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper for thinning young cotton plants that is cheaper to make and more efficient than previous models.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Sterling, Rufus Taylor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to mounted on a cultivator carriage. It also provides detachable devices by which the cotton chopping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Cowart, Stephen A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with adjustable hoe positions.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Hudson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Murray, Joel S. & Scarborough, Ezem H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper And Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and a cultivator.This invention allows for the raising and lowering the cultivator teeth. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Robertson, Newton K. & Jones, Isaac W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp (open access)

Clamp

Patent for a clamp. This invention is used for pump-rods, well-tubes, and like implements. Illustration included.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Imhoff, Louis P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor (open access)

Churn Motor

Patent for a churn motor. This invention is a manually motored churn. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Cole, Emory W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp. (open access)

Clamp.

Patent for a clamp "for use in in connection with hoisting-tackle for raising or lowering well-pipes..."(lines 9-10) that has one side attach to the pipe and the other side be releasable from the pipe.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Danforth, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a rail cars coupler. Illustrations included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Howell, Jordan M. & Walker, Abraham L.
System: The Portal to Texas History