Combined Brush and Currycomb (open access)

Combined Brush and Currycomb

Patent for a combined brush and currycomb for cleaning horses. Illustrations included.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Sikes, Rufus N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lunch Box (open access)

Lunch Box

Patent for a lunch box.This invention is designed with a secured latching lid. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Christian, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a cotton stalk cutter, which cuts the stalks into small pieces that easily decompose into the soil.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Sikes, Rufus N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for a resilient wheel for automobiles, motorcycles, and bicycles that absorbs shocks and is durable.
Date: May 11, 1912
Creator: Moore, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper. (open access)

Scraper.

Patent for a scraper for floors and walls that attaches to a broom handle.
Date: February 27, 1912
Creator: Pettit, Lee
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
System: The Portal to Texas History