Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter (open access)

Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter

Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Sylvester, C.T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Hetherington, Sam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Watkins, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow. (open access)

Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.

Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Peeples, Rufus P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Temple Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1906
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire-stretcher used in the building and repair of wire fences, including illustrations. This wire-stretcher's design has features which improve the efficiency of the construction of wire fences.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Feist, Felix L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching Implement (open access)

Wire Stretching Implement

Patent for a wire stretching implement. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Smith, Isaac
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Corder. (open access)

Trunk-Corder.

Patent for "Improvement in Trunk-Corders." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Kessee, Walter Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Beasley, Henry & Huber, Gauttleb
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a stalk cutter, which has a better width than previous stalk cutters.
Date: December 8, 1908
Creator: Stillwell, Frank R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter (open access)

Stalk Cutter

Patent for stalk cutters.Invention can be horse drawn to fell stalks. Illustrations included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Durham, Thomas L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler (open access)

Milk Cooler

Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Walkup, John W. & Walkup, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for a milk cooler, which has a water tank above the jugs of milk that slowly drips cold water onto porous cloths covering the milk jugs.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Dickson, Tomas Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Gun (open access)

Spring-Gun

Patent for "a cheap and simple device of this nature wherein the projectile will be held in such manner as not to interfere with sighting the catapult and wherein derived will be held in place in such manner as will prevent their accidental displacement and will yet permit of ready removal when desired" (lines 9-17).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Wilkins, Willie A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment designed for shovels. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Polk, Calvin Lucious
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for a nut-lock "to be used in connection with a vertical bolt" connecting the axles and wheels of a vehicle or a railroad car with the other parts of the vehicle or railroad car (lines 8-12). It also has "many other purposes" that are not detailed (line 13).
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Bolen, Brantle W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch (open access)

Gate Latch

Patent for a gate latch. Illustration included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Abernathy, James Rubin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a swinging gate for "general purposes; and consists in the constrcution hereinafter described and shown by which when the gate is shut the hinge-supports are relieved of any strain which would tent to pull them out of perpendicular position, and at the same time the gate itself when in a closed position is so supported that all liability of sagging is avoided, and the gate when in closed position is securely locked against accidental opening.(line 11-20)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Ogden, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Bar and Regulating Lever (open access)

Plow Bar and Regulating Lever

Patent for a plow bar and regulating lever. This invention is to improve regulating depth of plow.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Horton, James L. & Bennett, Dosier A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scrub Brush. (open access)

Scrub Brush.

Patent for an invention that combines a mop and a scrub brush into one device. With this device "the mop will travel in the rear of the brush and take up water and scour what may have been passed over by the brush" (lines 10-13) including illustration
Date: September 29, 1905
Creator: Sanders, Ida D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whip Handle (open access)

Whip Handle

Patent for a whip handle. This invention applies to the repair of harness. Illustration included.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Boeselt, Reinhold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for embroidering arm attachment to be mounted on the needle-bar of a sewing machine with the embossing material passed through the needle eye so that it does not need to go through the presser-foot.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Rodman, Rollin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. This invention is a cultivator-plow designed for cultivating cotton, corn, potatoes, etc. into rows while at the same time cutting out grass and weeds. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Griffin, Tom & Howell, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Wigley, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History