Copy Holder (open access)

Copy Holder

Patent for an improved copy holder design that is "adapted for holding stenographers' notebooks and other copies and equipped with an efficient line guide, capable of easy and rapid operation to drop the line indicating means from one line to another with perfect accuracy" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Wrede, Albin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
Date: April 28, 1868
Creator: Kidd, I. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
Date: April 28, 1868
Creator: Kidd, I. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller (open access)

Stump-Puller

Patent for stump puller.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Garrett, Irvin H.
System: The Portal to Texas History