Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. This invention is an implement lies in supporting the plow feet from the cultivator beams in such a manner in order to adjust the placing of the plow shanks. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Crouch, William V.; Crouch, McElvy S. & Martin, H. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Picker (open access)

Fruit Picker

Patent for a fruit picker. Illustration included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Mosier, Harry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Covertible Stock and Freight Car. (open access)

Covertible Stock and Freight Car.

Patent for an improved process of constructing convertible stock and freight train cars, including illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1920
Creator: Wyatt, Everett
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self Cigar-Lighter. (open access)

Self Cigar-Lighter.

Patent for a new and improved self-lighting cigar that has "[a]n attachment for cigars, consisting of a metallic holder having spring-arms . . . and a projecting portion adapted to hold the igniting composition, and a disk adapted to bear upon the outer end of the cigar" (lines 6-11).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: West, Thomas & Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curling-Iron Heater. (open access)

Curling-Iron Heater.

Patent for "an improved attachment for gas burners or lamps, which will be adapted to facilitate the heating of curling irons or other light articles" (lines 8-11).
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Fowler, Samuel O. & Taylor, Walter R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nozzle-Tip. (open access)

Nozzle-Tip.

Patent for a nozzle tip for fire hoses, which allows water to be sprayed in all directions and requires less effort to use.
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Bideker, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curry Comb. (open access)

Curry Comb.

Patent for a new and improved curry-comb. This design "has relation to that class of curry-combs provided with detachable and reversible handles, and has for its object to provide simple and effective means whereby the handle can be readily detached from the comb and replaced in a reverse position, or removed for the purpose of economizing for space in packing for transportation" (lines 17-24).
Date: June 8, 1886
Creator: Johnson, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker. (open access)

Cotton-Picker.

Patent for an electric motor operated cotton picker, which is worn on the body and sucks the cotton bolls through a nozzle into a bag.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Gray, Sidney J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Spindle (open access)

Cotton-Picking Spindle

Patent for a cotton-picking spindle that does not damage the cotton fibers.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Lightfoot, Exta
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvesting Machine (open access)

Cotton-Harvesting Machine

Patent for cotton harvesting machines.
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Lightfoot, Exta
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Hopple. (open access)

Cultivator-Hopple.

Patent for "a cultivator hopple that will require very little manual exertion to adjust the cultivator beams between their limiting positions." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Hill, Josef D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Thresher and Cleaner (open access)

Cotton Thresher and Cleaner

Patent for a cotton thresher and cleaner. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Blain, Frank A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting Machine (open access)

Cotton Harvesting Machine

Patent for a cotton harvester. Illustrations are included.
Date: May 16, 1903
Creator: Jackson, A. L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Thinner. (open access)

Cotton-Thinner.

Patent for a cotton thinner, which has cutters which can be moved vertically, a rake attachment, and is durable.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Floyd, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "[t]he frame mounted upon sled-runners and provided with braces, draft pole, and knives, in combination with the rake having check-bar, the sliding bar, connecting bar, and lever, all co-operating" (lines 89-92).
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Woodard, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tying Mechanism for Balers (open access)

Bale Tying Mechanism for Balers

Patent for a bale tying mechanism for balers. This invention is "a tying mechanism to unite the ends of a tie or wire after said wire has been passed around the bale" (line 8-11). Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Wiring Mechanism. (open access)

Bale Wiring Mechanism.

Patent for "improvements in a bale wiring mechanism, for baling presses, and also to an improved tie which can be made by simple mechanism" (lines 8-11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper And Checker (open access)

Cotton Chopper And Checker

Patent for a cotton chopper and checker. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Agee, Jonathan F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for cotton-chopper improvements providing a longer elliptical orbit for the hoe in order to chop closer to the ground.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Noblett, Adontram J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame and wheels, of the axle, journal-boxes for said axle adjustable lengthwise of said frame, a gear-wheel on said axle adjustable longitudinally thereon, the shaft parallel with the axle, a plurality of gear-wheels of varying diameters on said shaft, a bevel-pinion also on said shaft, and an inclined shaft carrying the hoe and provided with a bevel-pinion engaging the pinion on the shaft" (lines 8-17).
Date: December 13, 1887
Creator: Marshall, Benjamin C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that plants seeds in hills of equal distance from one another.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Roy, Henry F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with an adjustable disk.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Burton, Walter C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Cotton-Chopping Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Walthall, John & Carter, Oliver C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers by providing a means for it to be “mechanically performs the work of “blocking out” the cotton, or to reduce a cotton-row to a series of equidistant hills.” (Lines 12-14) Further, to provide “means whereby the hoes may be adjusted vertically, and also having suitable means to discontinue the operation of the hoes.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Howell, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History