Evaporator Cooler. (open access)

Evaporator Cooler.

Patent for an evaporator cooler.
Date: August 8, 1911
Creator: Tyson, William David & Tyson, Thomas Oscar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for embroidering arm attachment to be mounted on the needle-bar of a sewing machine with the embossing material passed through the needle eye so that it does not need to go through the presser-foot.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Rodman, Rollin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Molds. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Molds.

Patent for improvement in brick-molds, with description and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1875
Creator: Singer, Edgar C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: July 16, 1872
Creator: Houghton, Gideon H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for car-couplings.
Date: December 22, 1874
Creator: McCormick, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hand-Machines for Gathering Cotton in the Field" (lines 3-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 16, 1856
Creator: Shields, B. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. This invention is a cultivator-plow designed for cultivating cotton, corn, potatoes, etc. into rows while at the same time cutting out grass and weeds. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Griffin, Tom & Howell, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvement of plows; and it consists of a combination of two plows, which are attached to separate beams of their own, and which run upon opposite side of the growing plants for the purpose of cutting away weeds and dirt from around them, with two culitivators or shovels, which run immediately in the rear of said plows, and which clutivators are attached to beams of their own and serve to throw the dirt back toward the plants, as will be more fully described hereinafter.
Date: April 4, 1881
Creator: Carter, Charles Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Brace (open access)

Rail Brace

Patent for a rail brace system.
Date: October 17, 1916
Creator: Sencetta, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for covering cotton seeds by using a hoe transversely with cams and slides with the main axle of the planter, including illustration.
Date: May 15, 1855
Creator: Morrel, A. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Wigley, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow where a stock or standard is pivoted to and adjustably connected with the beam which features improvements in construction, arrangement, and combination of parts.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Reeves, Beverly Gray
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable stop-device or dog used in baling presses with a pressure-chamber in a plunger or traverser reciprocates. The invention operates automatically and retaines the material being pressed inside the pressure-chamber. The dog pivots on the side of the pressure-chamber and is enabled to move freely.
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger. (open access)

Earth-Auger.

Patent for an earth-auger that is more effective than other augers and can be constructed to make different sized holes. It is operated by moving two blades back and forth.
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Smith, Wiston Allin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washer. (open access)

Dish-Washer.

Patent for a dish washer with a dish rack and outer tub connected to water pump, which sprays hot water on the dishes to clean them.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Weaver, Mary Jane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient car coupling "which will insure positive automatic coupling when two opposite draw-heads come together" (lines 16-18).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Bird, Robert L. & Bird, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer. (open access)

Cotton-Distributer.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton distributers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Ogden, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin (open access)

Cotton Gin

Patent for "new and improved Cotton Gin" (line 5).
Date: October 3, 1900
Creator: Lumpkin, Robert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hobble. (open access)

Cultivator Hobble.

Patent for regarding setting devices for cultivator beams which are to provide simple devices for making the positioning easily and quickly accomplished and under the immediate control of the operator.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Fleischhauer, Kurt A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the base . . . of the slotted plate secured thereto, the strip on the rear side of the said plate, the blade having apertures and threaded bolts for adjusting the said blade" (lines 96-100). It further consists in "rear cutters or scrapers on the landside" (line 1).
Date: May 1, 1888
Creator: Irwin, William H. & Hairgrove, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton-choppers.
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: McCullough, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History