Post-Card Stand. (open access)

Post-Card Stand.

Patent for a post card stand, which turns by a crank mechanism to show all the postcards on the rack.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Bishop, Marvin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level and Try Square (open access)

Combined Level and Try Square

Patent for a combined level and try square tool. Illustrations are included.
Date: June 18, 1909
Creator: Blackwell, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer (open access)

Draft Equalizer

Patent for a draft class. This device is for use with wagons to equalize draft animals. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Bouldin, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Wheel. (open access)

Spring-Wheel.

Patent for a spring wheel, which absorbs shocks.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Burgess, Richard H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Cadenhead, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Tramper (open access)

Automatic Cotton-Tramper

Patent for an automatics cotton presser. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Campbell, Edgar Howard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Chamber for Refrigerators. (open access)

Ice-Chamber for Refrigerators.

Patent for an ice chamber for refrigerators, which decreases the amount of ice needed to keep the refrigerator cool and circulates the air better.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Carter, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Glazier's Table (open access)

Glazier's Table

Patent for a table that holds window glass in place for assembly. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Cosby, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baling and Compress Machine. (open access)

Combined Baling and Compress Machine.

Patent for a combined baling and compress machine for cotton gins, which makes bales that fulfill the rules of transportation companies on cotton bale density and is cost efficient enough for small gins to purchase.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Crow, Robert D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Mixing Machine. (open access)

Feed-Mixing Machine.

Patent for a feed mixing machine for stock feed made from cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Dabney, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Bolt Holder. (open access)

Cloth-Bolt Holder.

Patent for a cloth bolt holder, which attaches to a counter and allows for easy rolling and unrolling of the bolt.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Flemister, Ernest T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catamenial Sack (open access)

Catamenial Sack

Patent for a catamenial sack. This invention is a "catamenial sacks or shields and the object is to provided such a device which will be cleanly and sanitary in effect, which is pliable and easily and comfortably conformable to the form of the wearer" (lines 8-13). Illustration included.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Frommann, Franklin A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing (open access)

Gearing

Patent for a gearing to be used as an attachment for the driving axle of a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter-Tying Device (open access)

Letter-Tying Device

Patent for a package tie. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Greenwood, Bluford Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock for Toy Banks (open access)

Lock for Toy Banks

Patent for a lock for toy banks. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Hansen, Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auger-Bit (open access)

Auger-Bit

Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Harris, Lawrence P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Connection. (open access)

Rail Connection.

Patent for a rail connection, which is smooth when the train passes over it and durable.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Hendricks, Willis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a harrow, which collects stalks after it cuts them that has simplified lifting mechanisms.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Hosford, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate and Coop (open access)

Folding Crate and Coop

Patent for a crate that can be compactly folded and locked together, and may also be used as a coop.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Jennings, Charles E. & Shuptrine, Orlander D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Churn-Operating Mechanism

Patent for a rotary dasher churn operated by a spring motor. Illustrations included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Johnson, Frederick N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture (open access)

Curtain-Fixture

Patent for a curtain fixture which raises and lowers curtain shades by tightening and loosening. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Johnson, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Planters (open access)

Attachment for Planters

Patent for attachment for planters, provides a simple, inexpensive, easily-applied, and effectively operating attachmentc for cotton, corn, or other seed-planting machines in which is included a truck or a carriage whereby a sweep-plow can be connected with the planter truck or carriage for laying out a furrow and covering the seed (Johnson, 1902).
Date: June 14, 1909
Creator: Johnson, Major
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shocking Apparatus. (open access)

Shocking Apparatus.

Patent for a shocking apparatus for forming shocks of wheat or other grains, which can be attached to a harvester.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Kelly, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History