Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Wilson, James Newton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter (open access)

Cotton-Planter

Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Hook (open access)

Back-Band Hook

Patent for "a simple and inexpensive construction of hook which is capable of ready and convenient adjustment and with which different articles of cloth, such as may be on hand, may be used as a back-band, and also so formed as to prevent cutting or tearing of the back-band with which it is used and to be quickly and positively clamped in position on the band" (lines 13-21).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Pool, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed Planter (open access)

Cotton-seed Planter

Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date: February 25, 1901
Creator: Mills, William Cairill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bib. (open access)

Child's Bib.

Patent for improvement in children’s bibs, by providing bibs with a pocket at its lower end to catch any food or drink that might be dropped or spilled, thereby preventing soiling of the clothes and the carpet or floor. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projectile. (open access)

Projectile.

Patent for improvements in projectiles for use in smooth-bore guns of any caliber, the same being so grooved or rifled as to insure rapid rotation and great accuracy and range in flight. (Lines 8-11.) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Croom, Alvis F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvement in plows by first connecting a furrow-shoe to the moldboard, and second, by provide means for operating the plow-point to make a deep or shallow furrow and for raising and lowering covering-plows simultaneously when the plow is in operation. (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for "a shovel or point attachment for plow-stocks for operation in turf, stubble, or grubby or rocky soil deep or shallow, the attachment being particularly adapted for turning stalks, weeds, grass, and stubble" (lines 11-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Buster, Walter L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Dumping Cage for Hoisting Coal, & c., from Mines. (open access)

Self-Dumping Cage for Hoisting Coal, & c., from Mines.

Patent for improvements in self-dumping cage for hoisting coal or other minerals by first provide a simple and easily-controlled dumping mechanism which can be set at bottom of shaft; second, to secure a positive action of the dumping mechanism and reduce the shock and strain commonly incident to the operation of self-dumping cages; third, to provide a firmer and more easily operated dog for holding car on cage-platform. (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Burdic, Malvern W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Shears (open access)

Metal-Shears

Patent for "a machine of this nature specially designed for slotting sheets of metal in the formation of devices for plaiting cloth, a further object of the invention being to provide a machine that will be easy and simple of operation and may be operated with accuracy and into which the plate may be inserted and from which it may be removed with facility" (lines 8-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Hackett, Harry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History