Corn-Planter (open access)

Corn-Planter

Patent for improvements in the construction of corn planters.
Date: October 22, 1889
Creator: Williams, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-500 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-500

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Status of Hunt County District Attorney under Senate Bill No. 22, Acts 1969, 61st Leg., 2nd C. S.
Date: October 22, 1969
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Stretcher (open access)

Belt-Stretcher

Patent for an improvement in belt stretchers that are cheaper to make and easier to operate.
Date: May 22, 1920
Creator: Cherry, Warren L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener (open access)

Wire-Tightener

Patent for invented certain new and useful improvement in Wire-Tightener invention relates to an improvement in and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set here in after and particularly pointed out in the claim.
Date: January 22, 1889
Creator: Bulter, Constant, B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Puller. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter and Puller.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-stalk cutter and puller. This design "is to facilitate the removal of cotton-stalks from land in preparing it for subsequent cultivation" (lines 17-19).
Date: November 22, 1881
Creator: Richardson, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press. (open access)

Cotton Press.

Patent for a new and improved cotton press. This design "consists of a horizontal press with reciprocating follower, worked by power, the press being arranged to receive the cotton from a chute descending from the floor above the press, the said press and the driving mechanism being constructed and arranged . . . specifically" (lines 7-13).
Date: January 22, 1884
Creator: Allen, John Chapman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History