Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for device for planting, fertilizing, and cultivating seed and grain.
Date: April 1, 1884
Creator: Pickle, William Chesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace. (open access)

Furnace.

Patent for a simple, durable, and effective furnace that uses fuel economically and does not release smoke and gases besides out of the chimney. The furnace has a suction fan that draws the gases into the chimney.
Date: April 2, 1895
Creator: Wainright, Walter Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Cabinet (open access)

Display Cabinet

Patent for display cabinet. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Douglass, John A. & Fagg, Carye A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protected Bail-Joint. (open access)

Protected Bail-Joint.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protected rail-joints.
Date: April 19, 1898
Creator: Teamer, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows (open access)

Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows

Patent for a spring tooth for cultivators and harrows. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Seam. (open access)

Garment-Seam.

Patent for a method "of forming seams for joining fabrics, metals, paper, or other sheets by means of thread, rivets, solder, or other expedient, and it has for its object to provide a seam within the outer sheets and their linings will be simultaneously joined at a single operation and by use of a single line of stiching, rivets, or other securing means." (lines 11-19)
Date: April 14, 1903
Creator: Johnson, Nellie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Window-Screen. (open access)

Safety Window-Screen.

Patent for a window screen that is adjustable to different size windows and locks in place on the window frame at different heights to provide a cover for the opening left when a window is opened for ventilation for the purpose of preventing anyone from entering the house through the window.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Crosby, Matthew G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Can (open access)

Garbage-Can

Patent for a garbage receptacle, water proof in nature, to be used in outside places. A removable container allows for the prevention of tampering and a foot operated mechanism allows it to be efficient to utilize.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Jones, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History