Bag-Rack (open access)

Bag-Rack

Patent for a rotating bag rack for use in stores.
Date: February 27, 1912
Creator: James, Joseph E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has a rotary blade for cutting cotton and blades which can be raised to different levels for different depths of soil.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Williams, John Scott
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Turner, James S. & Campbell, John Luther
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Occlusornce (open access)

Dental Occlusornce

Patent for a dental tool that is used after all of a patients teeth are removed. This devise will restore the patients bite when the jaw is in the closed position.
Date: June 10, 1901
Creator: Stocks, Clarence
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Yoke. (open access)

Cattle-Yoke.

Patent for a cattle-yoke that is economical to make and easy to take on and off of the cow.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Dean, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat Propeller (open access)

Boat Propeller

Patent for a boat propeller. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Edgar, Samuel Nooley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Langford, Noah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cot-Frame (open access)

Cot-Frame

Patent for a cot frame designed to accommodate two people. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Shelton, Robert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for an Agricultural Hoeing-Wheel. (open access)

Design for an Agricultural Hoeing-Wheel.

Design patent for a hoeing wheel that has a circular body having a plurality of flat arms that are regularly spaced.
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: McGuire, John A. & Williams, Richard S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Paris, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blackboard-Eraser (open access)

Blackboard-Eraser

Patent for "blackboard-erasers in which the erasing material is detachable from the wood block or handle and permits...being used continuously."
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Williams, Lavinia B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
CHURN (open access)

CHURN

Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: HARRISON, DAVID M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Gin Feeder (open access)

Cotton Elevator and Gin Feeder

Patent for a cotton elevator and gin feeder. Illustration included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Sory, Benjamin D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Cleaner and Huller (open access)

Cotton-Seed Cleaner and Huller

Patent for a cottonseed cleaner and huller. Illustrations included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Vanlandingham, William Wallace
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Slat Fastener and Brace (open access)

Bed Slat Fastener and Brace

Patent for a bed-slat fastener and brace. This bed-slat design is designed to "effectually prevent the distension of the side rails of the bed and will also strengthen and support the slats and prevent sagging or breakage" (line 9-12) illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Shelton, Robert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator. (open access)

Fumigator.

Patent for a fumigator for spraying boll weevil insecticide on cotton, which generates the insecticide gas, sprays it while moving across the field, and keeps the gas in close proximity to the plants for a short time for thorough treatment.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Fuller, Menzo Reed
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Metallic Trunk Strap (open access)

Adjustable Metallic Trunk Strap

Patent for adjustable metallic trunk strap. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Mertins, John Lewis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter (open access)

Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter

Patent for "agricultural implements in which a single frame is utilized to support various kinds of mechanisms, and in the present invention there is included a frame of simple and improved construction adapted for carrying and to be used in connection with earth-engaging, implements, such as harrow-teeth and cultivator blades, as well as rollers, for the purpose of crushing clods and leveling the surface of the land." (lines 8-18). Includes description and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1905
Creator: Johnson, Alfred Butler
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Floyd, Ellis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Repairing Apparatus. (open access)

Axle-Repairing Apparatus.

Patent for a new, simple, and efficient axle repairing apparatus for "facilitating the repairing of worn axles without the removal of the wheels or the axles from the vehicle-body" (line 10 -12).
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Hammer, Willie Alice
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bonnet (open access)

Bonnet

Patent for a bonnet. Illustrations included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Hancock, Mollie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Holder. (open access)

Bolt-Holder.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bolt holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Higdon, Jasper S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator and planter. This design consists in "the combination of the box having the slot and the three apertures in the side of the slot . . . the reciprocating seed-slide, and the sliding and adjustable plate . . . having the slot near its end and engaging with the free leg of the staple" (lines 100-110).
Date: February 26, 1889
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Puller. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter and Puller.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-stalk cutter and puller. This design "is to facilitate the removal of cotton-stalks from land in preparing it for subsequent cultivation" (lines 17-19).
Date: November 22, 1881
Creator: Richardson, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History