Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weempe, Charles M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1898
Creator: Mason, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator (open access)

Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator

Patent for a steam generator for hydrocarbon burners. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer. (open access)

Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer.

Patent for a combined mail crane, catcher, and deliverer for trains, which can both drop off and pick up mail at the same time.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burial-Vault (open access)

Burial-Vault

Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breast Connector (open access)

Breast Connector

Patent for a breast connector for horses. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bundle-Tie (open access)

Bundle-Tie

Patent for a bundle tie particularly designed for mail packages. Illustrations included.
Date: September 9, 1909
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Richard, Jay S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has rotating blades on the front.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Thompson, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Heather. (open access)

Combination-Heather.

Patent for combination-heater in which it can be submerged directly in a body of water contained in any open-top vessel, such as a bath-hub, bucket or other receptacle for the purpose of raising the temperature of the water to a desired degree. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Mansfield, Charles Augustus & Hayes, George Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for "a clothes pin or clasp which will have a clamping-spring action and which can be conveniently manipulated to apply or remove it to and from a holding position and one wherein the clamping members mainly he within the same plane" (lines 7-13).
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that can also chop or cut corn, cane, broom-corn, peas, or any similar plants that are planted thick in drills or rows. This particular chopper includes an approved arrangement and adjustment of the chopping-blades that can be set to cut at different angles.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: McKee, Jacob Rufus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lifting-Jacks (open access)

Attachment for Lifting-Jacks

Patent for an attachment for lifting jacks.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Porter, Horton B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake (open access)

Car Brake

Patent for a rail car brake. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms. (open access)

Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms.

Patent for a cleaning rod for rifles, which allows rapid movements in and out and turns a rag easily inside the barrel without tearing the cloth.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Price, Thomas Martin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 27, 1898
Creator: Owens, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting-Machine (open access)

Casting-Machine

Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Separator (open access)

Cotton Seed Separator

Patent for cotton seed separator. This invention is designed to be a sifting machine for separating cotton seed between sizes. Illustration included.
Date: November 19, 1907
Creator: Edwards, Montieville M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker (open access)

Cotton-Picker

Patent for improvements to cotton pickers providing a wheeled machine that will "remove cotton lint from the plants by mechanical means" (lines 15-16) with added new features to construction and operation, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stiles & Ascue, Elbert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame (open access)

Bicycle-Frame

Patent for a bicycle frame that can be used on bicycles in general, but is particularly suited for spring frame bicycles including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1900
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Planter (open access)

Cultivator and Planter

Patent for improvements in combined cultivators and corn/cotton planters to adapt an ordinary cultivator for planting of seeds with adjustable seed-tube and furrow opener to accommodate various character of ground being worked or cultivation being done.
Date: July 5, 1900
Creator: Prentice, Peter Mack
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cow, Calf and Colt Weaner. (open access)

Cow, Calf and Colt Weaner.

Patent for a weaner to be worn by cows, calves and colts "reducing inconvenience by the animal" (line 12) and allowing for the administration of medicine or antiseptic.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Horn, William Thornbrough
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for Baling-Press designed particularly as a further improvement of the press and eliminate the long operating lever. (lines 12-14).
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame. (open access)

Bicycle-Frame.

Patent for a new and useful bicycle frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1899
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History