Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Hester, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Piano (open access)

Automatic Piano

Patent for an automatic piano that can play longer and is more compact than previous models.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Stauffer, Floyd F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet (open access)

Cabinet

Patent for
Date: August 15, 1905
Creator: Merritt, William Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude Oil Burner (open access)

Crude Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner. This invention is designed to burn crude oil in its unrefined state. Illustration included.
Date: August 15, 1905
Creator: Ziegler, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Board-Set and Nail-Driver (open access)

Combined Board-Set and Nail-Driver

Patent for a combined board set and nail driver that allows nails to be driven into wall boards without scarring the wood.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Vaughan, Alonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved combined seed planter and cultivator. This design "is to provide combined seed-planters and cultivators constructed in such a manner that the seed-planting mechanism can be readily detached when not required for use, and also in such a manner that each plow can be adjusted independently of the others when desired" (lines 18-24).
Date: August 15, 1882
Creator: Gifford, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient car coupling that is reliable and automatically couples cars together. The invention provides "a car-coupling which will not necessitate persons going between cars, and which will, should a car be overturned, become automatically uncoupled to prevent a derailed car dragging others after it down an embankment" (lines 16-20).
Date: August 15, 1893
Creator: Hausam, Daniel Whitfield
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crimping-Machine (open access)

Crimping-Machine

Patent for "a machine that crimps the edges of lids for lard pails and the like." (lines 8-11) including illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1915
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome Nichols
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing. (open access)

Bearing.

Patent for invention of a bearing which has adjustable bearing for shafting. Also this invention wide range of position changes in shaft.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Dickerson, Eustice. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Tank. (open access)

Water-Tank.

Patent for a railroad water tank, which automatically opens the discharge valve when the spout is opened.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Miller, Charles H. & Bunnell, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Device. (open access)

Lubricating Device.

Patent for a device that lubricates cylinders via the intake manifold that responds to small changes in pressure.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: McKay, Guy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment. (open access)

Type-Writer Attachment.

Patent for a typewriter attachment that shifts the carriage by foot rather than by hand.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Ward, Mizell Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for an improvement in valves which "is adapted for connection with pipes or conduits for conducting water, steam, or other fluids; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient appliance of this character possessing the functions of both a globe and a check valve; and it is adapted to advantageously control the flow of liquid no matter what position or its casing may occupy" (lines 7-15). It includes instructions and illustrations..
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Thummel, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-plows. (open access)

Improvement in Steam-plows.

Patent for improvement in the apparatus for turning up soil with a steam plow.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Miller, Herman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Sulky-Plows.

Patent for sulky-plows.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Payne, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Carrier. (open access)

Water-Carrier.

Patent for a water carrier that is made up of a conveyor for a bucket to and from a well.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Offutt, Ira Emerson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness. (open access)

Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.

Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Dawson, Paul R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for a new and useful hydrocarbon burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Jordan, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk cutters to "product chopper in which the cutter-wheels may be adjusted with relation to each other to accommodate rows of varying widths" (line 13 - 16).
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Terrell, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Gradually Changing Rotative Velocity. (open access)

Mechanism for Gradually Changing Rotative Velocity.

Patent for a mechanism for gradually changing rotative velocity on automatic pianos.
Date: August 15, 1911
Creator: Stauffer, Floyd F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Dish and Clothes Washer. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Dish and Clothes Washer.

Patent for a combined dish and clothes washer that has a tilting shelf for draining, attached to the sink for washing.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Jackson, Ansberry Chapman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps. (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Patent for improvements to animal-traps to wound or kill rats, mice, and game with the size and strength being adjustable to the size of animals sought.
Date: August 15, 1887
Creator: Martin, Josiah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in plow-stocks. (open access)

Improvement in plow-stocks.

Patent for an improvement on the plow stock that allows the user to use different plow blades and standards, depending on what kind of plowing needs to be done. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Price, James Alvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil - Tank Gage. (open access)

Oil - Tank Gage.

Patent for invention of a gage which measures the depth of oil in a tank. This generally lowers the pole in tank until it touches oil.
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: King, Horace. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History