Machine for destroying cotton-boll weaver. (open access)

Machine for destroying cotton-boll weaver.

Patent for a machine that aids in pest control of cotton boll weevil and other insects including including illustration.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Dannelly, Frank M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Holder. (open access)

Pencil-Holder.

Patent for a device to secure a pencil within the breast-pocket, including description and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Hogg, George, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pole or shaft. (open access)

Pole or shaft.

Patent for poles and shafts for vehicles with the objective of providing "simple and inexpensive means for dispensing with the singletree ordinarily employed with a pair of shafts or thills in a one-horse vehicle or the usual doubletree in a two-horse vehicle." (Lines 10-15)
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Sharp, Marvin A. & Sharp, Bird H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for rotary pump designed to counterbalance thrust at each step by a "series of lifting-wheels mounted upon a common shaft" (lines 10-11) in order to minimize wheel thrust.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Baker, Josheph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie. (open access)

Railway-Tie.

Patent for a railroad tie made of sand and cement and threaded with barbed wire.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Joynt, Dudley Layng
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Lock and Lift (open access)

Sash Lock and Lift

Patent for sash lock and lift that "relates to improvements in devices for operating window-sashes, and especially provides an improved means for operating the upper sash and locking the same securely in any desired position with respect to the lower sash, thus obviating the necessity for reaching up for the upper sash when it is desired to raise or lower the same or to lock it in open position for the purpose of ventilation" (lines 12-21) including instructions and illustrations
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Schairer, John Jacob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suction cotton harvesting and cleaning apparatus. (open access)

Suction cotton harvesting and cleaning apparatus.

Patent for "a suction cotton harvesting and cleaning apparatus for harvesting cotton" (Lines 10-11) with illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Dannelly, Frank M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool. (open access)

Wire-Fence Tool.

Patent for wire fence tool attachment for a wire stretching machine. The tool can also perform other operations related to the fence wires when detached from the machine.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Pearson, C. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire-stretcher designed to repair wire fences manually.
Date: October 22, 1901
Creator: Pearson, Charles Ewell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1901
Creator: Wilson, H.T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for new and useful improvements in cultivators, relating to an attachment which may be applied to use upon any variety of cultivator with carrying-wheels, which provides efficient means for cutting cotton-stalks or weeds after cotton harvest.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Kerr, Robert Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Reciprocating Engine (open access)

Rotary Reciprocating Engine

Patent for this invention has relation to the type of engines combining rotary and reciprocating movements in one structure, the purpose being to combine the working elements in such relation as to convert maximum percentage of force into available form for the performance of work.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Williams, Win D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmitting-Gear for Windmills. (open access)

Transmitting-Gear for Windmills.

Patent for an improved transmitting-gear for windmills "which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to impart a long stroke to the pump-rod or other device to be actuated" (lines 11-14), including one illustration.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Allison, Jesse H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turning Tool for Bale Band Fasteners. (open access)

Turning Tool for Bale Band Fasteners.

Patent for "novel construction of turning-tool having simple and efficient means for exerting a powerful leverage upon the turning or winding element of the fastener, whereby all of the slack in the bale-band may be readily taken up and drawn very tight, thus insuring the manipulation of the bale-band fastener in a way to provide for taking up a maximum amount of slack with a minimum movement" (lines 16-25). Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater. (open access)

Water Heater.

Patent for easy to clean water heater that is meant to deal with issues of hard water residue collecting on parts. Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History