Cotton-Valve. (open access)

Cotton-Valve.

Patent for improvements in cotton-valve by providing a valve which may be used in connection with an elevator that carrying the cotton to the gins; to have two batteries or divisions, so that one division may be cut out while the other is in operation. (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: October 2, 1900
Creator: Williams, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
BalingPress (open access)

BalingPress

Patent for the usefulness of baling press.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Woodward, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Vehicle - Brake. (open access)

Automatic Vehicle - Brake.

Patent for a new and improved automatic vehicle brake.
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Elliott, Joseph Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Divin, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivator-Beams (open access)

Attachment for Cultivator-Beams

Patent for an attachment for cultivator beams designed to help adjust cultivators while in usage. Illustrations included.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Barham, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device. (open access)

Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.

Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hood, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Feeder

Patent for improvements to cotton cleaners and feeders, including illustrations
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner (open access)

Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner

Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an automatic butter churn with illustrations.
Date: January 28, 1902
Creator: Fitzhugh, James, S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.
Date: March 3, 1898
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator. (open access)

Cotton-Elevator.

Patent for improvement in cotton-elevators by providing means for the air-conduit and the cotton-conduit to communicate with the body of the elevator; and means for the air-conduit to communicate directly to the cotton conduit in order to effectively and uniformly distribute the cotton when fed to the gins. Thus preventing the cotton from being fed unevenly, which would clog and otherwise retard the action of the gins. (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 9, 1900
Creator: Williams, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel. (open access)

Car-Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: Clark, Fred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressing-Machine. (open access)

Compressing-Machine.

Patent for a compressing machine for pressing plastic, cotton, and cotton seeds.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Baade, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge for Guns. (open access)

Cartridge for Guns.

Patent for "a projectile having an elliptical cross-section and slight longitadinal twist for use in guns provided with a corresponding bore." (lines 8-11), including description and illustrations.
Date: September 24, 1901
Creator: Cole, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, where the hoes rotate in an elliptical shape rather than a circle.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Gibson, Rupert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator, which reduces the risk of breaking the cultivator when obstructions are met in the soil.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Lancaster, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back Spacing Attachment for Type Writing Machines (open access)

Back Spacing Attachment for Type Writing Machines

Patent for an attachment to provide type writing machines with back space. Illustration included.
Date: July 19, 1904
Creator: Parker, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide. (open access)

Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.

Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Hoxworth, Edwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operated Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Fender, John Brown
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with mechanically operated hoes that go in an ellipse across the ground.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Gibson, Rupert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Distributer. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.

Patent for improvements on cotton cleaners and distributors, specifically means for pneumatically raising cotton, cleaning the dirt from said cotton, and releasing quantities of cotton collected in the distributor.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Seifert, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Topper (open access)

Cotton Topper

Patent for a cotton topper. This invention is designed to deal with weeds and is attached to the frame of an ordinary cultivator or plow. Illustrations included
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Bickers, Lucius T. & Lee, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool (open access)

Combination Tool

Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Barry, Jefferson D.; Wise, Daniel; Dehn, Frederick D. & Crossland, Mortimer L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History