Cotton Picker (open access)

Cotton Picker

Patent for a cotton picker. Illustrations included.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: Shreeves, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Rowell, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for kitchen use such as cooking. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Brennan, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Johnson, Joshua J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Stay Bolt (open access)

Boiler Stay Bolt

Patent for a boiler stay bolt. This design is made of flexible stay-bolts for boiler allowing for movement bracing sheets. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Borneman, Lewis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Headlight-Reflector (open access)

Adjustable Headlight-Reflector

Patent for an adjustable headlight reflector for train engines which will shine the light straight in front of the train.
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Pratt, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for treating lint cotton as it passes from the gin for bleaching. Illustration included.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an improved self-setting trap that can capture and kill animals while preventing them from reaching the bait.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Sheridan, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton

Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Railway-Rail (open access)

Compound Railway-Rail

Patent for a compound railway-rail. This invention is a solid open jointed rail whereby two longitudinal section may be brought together without creating open joints. Illustration included.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Stephens, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Child's Garment (open access)

Child's Garment

Patent for a child's garment. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Hanks, Edith & Anderson, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compress and Packer (open access)

Compress and Packer

Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Griffin, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Replacer (open access)

Car Replacer

Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Bowman, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power (open access)

Churn Power

Patent for "new and useful improvements for churn-power" (line 5), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 19, 1900
Creator: Dickey, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with an adjustable swinging arm.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Lang, Leo Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin (open access)

Cotton-Gin

Patent for a cotton gin which removes lint with air pressure. Illustrations included.
Date: January 26, 1909
Creator: Epps, Clinton Calvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Cover (open access)

Barrel-Cover

Patent for a barrel cover. Illustrations included.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Andrews, James R. & Waldrum, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet-Seat. (open access)

Closet-Seat.

Patent for a toilet seat that helps support users with rectal diseases.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Ellis, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ballast-Scraper. (open access)

Ballast-Scraper.

Patent for new and useful improvements in ballast scrapers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: McElvaney, Charles T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen (open access)

Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen

Patent for an antifriction device used to "prevent dust and grit from accumulating in the anti-friction bearings" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Neighbour, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpet Fastening (open access)

Carpet Fastening

Patent for carpet fastening. Illustrations included.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: Voelkle, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Cover (open access)

Can Cover

Patent for a can cover. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Pratt, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History