Device for Assisting Vehicles Uphill. (open access)

Device for Assisting Vehicles Uphill.

Patent for a device for assisting vehicles uphill, which attaches a counter balance to the wagon that lifts up going downhill and goes down while going up hill to make the pulling easier on the animals pulling the wagon.
Date: October 12, 1909
Creator: Stevens, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculating - Machine (open access)

Calculating - Machine

Patent for an improvements in calculating machines. This invention "relates to machines for making rapid and accurate calculations" (line 8-9).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Minnis, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Bed Spring. (open access)

Design for Bed Spring.

Design patent for bed spring comprised of twin spirally-coiled bodies with straight horizontal arm extending from upper coils.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Rigg, Elmer E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevating, Conveying, and Cleaning Apparatus (open access)

Cotton Elevating, Conveying, and Cleaning Apparatus

Patent for a cotton elevating, conveying, and cleaning apparatus for dealing with seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: September 24, 1907
Creator: Tidwell, Albert F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer (open access)

Cotton Elevator and Distributer

Patent for a cotton elevator and distributor. Illustrations included.
Date: September 3, 1912
Creator: Ellenburg, Joseph N. & Nelson, Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-stalk cutter. This design utilizes a frame with two small, curved blades, which, with the assistance of pins, can be locked in place either in two corresponding recesses or outwardly when in use.
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Pearce, Aaron B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk cutter. This design "is to facilitate the operation of cutting down of cotton-stalks in preparing the ground for a new crop. The invention consists in the combination, with the sled provided with a series of holes, in its upper surface, of the hinged perforated bars, the cross-bar, the pins, and the knives; also, in the combination, with the sled carrying the hinged perforated bars, cross-bar, and knives, of the platform secured to the rear part of the sled and the standards secured to a cross-bar of the sled in front of the platform" (lines 17-29).
Date: February 28, 1882
Creator: Thompson, Francis Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Disk (open access)

Cultivator Disk

Patent for a cultivator disk. Illustration included.
Date: May 9, 1905
Creator: Harris, Samuel A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: November 21, 1911
Creator: Ellett, Luther S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Otenhouse, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for new and useful improvements in cultivators, relating to an attachment which may be applied to use upon any variety of cultivator with carrying-wheels, which provides efficient means for cutting cotton-stalks or weeds after cotton harvest.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Kerr, Robert Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Ellett, Luther S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Spreader. (open access)

Cultivator-Spreader.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Cultivator-Spreaders" (lines 5-7) which enables the operator of the cultivator to adjust the lateral spread of the plow beams without checking his team or withdrawing the plows from the soil, including illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Nevins, Robinson C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows. (open access)

Attachment for Wheel-Plows.

Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date: December 21, 1878
Creator: Cummins, John Randolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Attachment for Plows.

Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 15, 1891
Creator: Williams, George M. D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Parcel Carrier (open access)

Parcel Carrier

Patent for improvements in parcel carrier for automobiles.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Campbell, William L.; Straughan, Augustus E.; Commons, A. J.; Weisman, S. & Winton, E. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Packer. (open access)

Cotton Packer.

Patent for a new and improved cotton packer. This design is "to provide means for taking the cotton from the gin and packing the same in the bale box, ready for the action of the press-follower, without manual labor" (lines 22-26).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Moore, Ralleigh Cabert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for agricultural machines to "permit the chopper to pass predetermined plants during the operation of the machine through a planted field." (lines 13-16)
Date: June 15, 1920
Creator: Hart, Granville M. & Wall, James Edgar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Building (open access)

Cotton-Gin Building

Patent for improvements to cotton gin buildings granted to Benjamin F. Ferguson to reduce the risk of fire and the cost of ginning cotton.
Date: February 27, 1883
Creator: Ferguson, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Handling Apparatus (open access)

Cotton Handling Apparatus

Patent for a cotton handling apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Tidwell, Albert F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a device that will be attached to the frame of the cultivator to be used for chopping cotton, and weeds.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Williams, Roy L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Chopping Machine.

Patent for a cotton chopping machine, which can be attached to a cultivator, has a mechanically operated hoe, and automatically changes its cutting height for different heights of ground.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: Martin, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History