Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with mechanically operated hoes that go in an ellipse across the ground.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Gibson, Rupert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Fuel (open access)

Composition Fuel

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in composition fuel, the object being to produce fuel in compact form which will burn quickly, rapidly generating an intense heat, and leaving but a small quantity of a residue or ash" (lines 10-15).
Date: January 15, 1901
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for an improved combined cotton chopper and cultivator.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Summers, Dewett C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4039, Chapter 955 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4039, Chapter 955

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the appointment of magistrates in McLennan County.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4040, Chapter 956 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4040, Chapter 956

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the composition of the McLennan County Juvenile Board.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1976, Chapter 583 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1976, Chapter 583

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the composition of the McLennan County Juvenile Board.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1985, Chapter 1345 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1985, Chapter 1345

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the McLennan County Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine (open access)

Well-Drilling Machine

Patent for a well-drilling machine that is simple, compact and effective with general improvements over other models.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: McAfee, Claude M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Bath Apparatus (open access)

Vapor Bath Apparatus

Patent for a vapor-bath which improves upon the breathing apparatus.
Date: October 15, 1901
Creator: Garrett, Palmyra O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Generator (open access)

Steam Generator

Patent for an invention that "relates to a novel generator designed with special reference to the requirements of motor-vehicles, but capable of use in any connection where a completely automatic generator of light compact form is desirable" (lines 14-21). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 15, 1902
Creator: Walker, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper Box. (open access)

Paper Box.

Patent for a paper box that can be easily and securely locked. The ends of the box are locked into place with inwardly-curved edges, and slits receive the end portions of the inwardly -curved edges.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Girard, Alexandre Ferdinand
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signaling Mechanism (open access)

Railway Signaling Mechanism

Patent for a railway signaling mechanism. This invention "relates to certain new and useful improvements in electric railway and block signaling in which means are provided for indicating in the engine cab to the engineer the condition of the road ahead" (lines 9-13). Illustrations included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Adams, Edwin Johnson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gang Plow. (open access)

Gang Plow.

Patent for a new and improved gang plow. This design consists in "the landside-beam, the front cross-beam, the oblique plow-carrying beam connected at its rear end to the landside-beam and at its front to the front cross-beam, the tubular bearings or boxings on the side of the landside-beam and at the front of the plow-beam, the wheeled cylindrical rods extending through and freely rotatable in the said bearings or boxings, and means . . . for raising and lowering the frame on the cylindrical rods" (lines 17-28).
Date: March 15, 1887
Creator: Hinchman, Frank M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overall Jacket Or Waist. (open access)

Overall Jacket Or Waist.

Patent for an overall jacket or waists, the construction of which permits of its formation with less material and its use with greater comfort and convenience by terminating at its lower edge in a waist band, which, in use, is intended to be seated upon or lap the upper edges or portions of the trouser sections, thus avoiding the extensions usually present with a wait section or jacket into the trouser section.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Saddle-Pad. (open access)

Design for a Saddle-Pad.

Design patent for a saddle-pad with longitudinal rows of scalloped ribs.
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Padgitt, Tom
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Tongue (open access)

Cultivator Tongue

Patent for a a tongue that can be connected with a cultivator where the free lateral swinging of the tongue and the cultivator can be induced.
Date: June 15, 1920
Creator: Franklin, Iva A. & Mangum, Sam E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Topper (open access)

Cotton Topper

Patent for a cotton topper. This invention is designed to deal with weeds and is attached to the frame of an ordinary cultivator or plow. Illustrations included
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Bickers, Lucius T. & Lee, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History