Cotton Picking Sack and Holder (open access)

Cotton Picking Sack and Holder

Patent for a cotton picking sack and holder. This invention is designed to be worn by the worker.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Montgomery, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Stone, John Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle. (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for a non-refillable bottle. The invention "relates to bottles in general, and more particularly to that class known as "non-refillable" bottles, and has for its object to provide a cheap and simple device of this nature that when once emptied cannot be refilled either by floating, by exhausting the air therefrom, or by pouring thereinto" (lines 11-17). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Bogue, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Drawer Attachment for Bedsteads. (open access)

Bed-Drawer Attachment for Bedsteads.

Patent for improvement in bed-drawer attachments for bedsteads by “having bed-drawer arranged to slide beneath the usual mattress-support.” (Lines 8-10) Illustration is included.
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Mabee, Leonia
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock Striking Mechanism. (open access)

Clock Striking Mechanism.

Patent for a new and improved clock-chimes. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chime of bells in the clock case, of the wheel having the lateral pins, the rock-shaft, a lever extending from the rock-shaft and engaging the said pins, and the hammer arms respectively connected with the rock-shaft by the short arm" (lines 21-26).
Date: September 22, 1885
Creator: Witherspoon, Frank.
System: The Portal to Texas History