Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustrations included
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Stopple, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor (open access)

Churn Motor

Patent for a churn motor. This invention is a manually motored churn. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Cole, Emory W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mop Holder (open access)

Mop Holder

Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Anderson, Isaac Nerie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c (open access)

Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c

Patent for combined closer and latch for gates. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: McKinney, Pleasant M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Woods, John Bell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridle-Rod for Railroad Rails (open access)

Bridle-Rod for Railroad Rails

Patent for a system of attaching railroad rails when the rails are first placed. This device is used to keep the rails a precise distance apart before the railroad spikes are placed into the ground holding the rails firmly in place.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Johnson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Couplings (open access)

Car-Couplings

Patent for equipment to improve car-coupling to allow "automatically couple the cars, which can be readily uncoupled with-out going between the cars" (line 14-16).
Date: February 19, 1901
Creator: Lyons, Robert N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bling Tenon (open access)

Bling Tenon

Patent for a metallic blind tenon. The end of a blind slat to pivot the slat in the frame of the blind. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: Miller, Charles, of Del Rio, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chain Jack. (open access)

Chain Jack.

Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Phillips, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Street Car Sign (open access)

Advertising Street Car Sign

Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: King, Alphonse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box. (open access)

Box.

Patent for a metal, rural, mail carrier supply box with various compartments for different supplies.
Date: February 16, 1909
Creator: Dullye, August V. & Woodrome, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device. (open access)

Photographic-Printing Device.

Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Brown, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Branding-Chute (open access)

Branding-Chute

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Branding Chutes" (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Honeycutt, John
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 a cultivator.This invention allows for the raising and lowering the cultivator teeth. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Robertson, Newton K. & Jones, Isaac W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Meier, Hermann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Hogan, Samuel Thomas; Knetsch, Ferdinand, Jr. & Oatman, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover. (open access)

Churn-Cover.

Patent for "new and Improved Churn-Cover" (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Hogue, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Handle for Sweep-Stocks and the Like (open access)

Adjustable Handle for Sweep-Stocks and the Like

Patent for adjustable handles for sweep stocks, plows, cultivators, and related equipment.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Hoerhold, Theodore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt (open access)

Belt

Patent for an apparel belt. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: Reynolds, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for treating lint cotton as it passes from the gin for bleaching. Illustration included.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new, improved combined corn and cotton planter, including illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Structure (open access)

Building Structure

Patent for building frame structures with interlocking timbers that allows for easy movement of the timbers to provide ventilation when needed.
Date: February 19, 1907
Creator: Yoakum, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Circuit-Closer. (open access)

Circuit-Closer.

Patent for a circuit closer for ignition systems "in which both of the terminals are not only isolated from each other, but are also insulated from the engine frame" (lines 10-12).
Date: February 16, 1909
Creator: Hubbard, Wilson E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed Planter (open access)

Cotton-seed Planter

Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date: February 25, 1901
Creator: Mills, William Cairill
System: The Portal to Texas History