Wire Stretching and Reeling Machine. (open access)

Wire Stretching and Reeling Machine.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in wire-stretchers for use in building wire fences, and also adapted to take up the wire and reel the same when it is desired to take a fence down" (lines 12-16). It consists, "with the main frame, of the inclined and slotted standards secured thereto, the boxes arranged on said standards, the pivoted pawl carried by the boxes, and a reel-shaft carrying a pinion and arranged in the slots of the standards and supported by the boxes" (lines 89-95).
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Claunch, Martin B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Roaster. (open access)

Peanut-Roaster.

Patent for a new and improved peanut roaster with a rotating drum that can sound an alarm after a certain interval of time and can be moved directly over a roasting flame, including illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1920
Creator: Peckham, Samuel C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer And Fumigator (open access)

Insect Destroyer And Fumigator

Patent for an insect destroyer and fumigator. Illustrations included.
Date: October 4, 1904
Creator: Heffner, John H. & Kidd, Eugene Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker (open access)

Cotton-Picker

Patent for improvements to pneumatic cotton pickers. The principal object of the invention is to provide rotatable suction devices which will draw the cotton from the plants in one part of the rotation and drop the same cotton in the remaining part of the rotation.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Rhodes, Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History