Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols. (open access)

Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols.

Patent for a fan attachment for umbrellas or parasols, including illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Beseler, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller Press (open access)

Roller Press

Patent for improvements of roller presses with speed and "to form a cyndrical bale of the cotton-batting" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 10, 1900
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano. (open access)

Piano.

Patent for a new piano "in which the strings are vibrated through the medium of a bow, as in a violin, instead of being struck with hammers in accordance with the usual method" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date: June 5, 1900
Creator: Holcombe, Edgar L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes. (open access)

Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.

The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
Date: November 13, 1900
Creator: Smith, Millage M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for improvement of construction of wire stretcher for both mending and cutting wire.
Date: November 20, 1900
Creator: Passmore, Benjamine, H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivaor (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivaor

Patent for a combine cotton chopper and cultivator, illustrations included.
Date: October 2, 1900
Creator: McCracken, Ninian S.
System: The Portal to Texas History