Box Stand or Bracket (open access)

Box Stand or Bracket

Patent for a pivoting box and/or box stand for use in stores.
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Luensmann, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Securing Tools to Handles. (open access)

Means for Securing Tools to Handles.

Patent for a spur plate that helps keep tools securely fastened to their handles.
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Smythe, Amos Pierce & Bryant, Thomas P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Cleaning Ginned Cotton (open access)

Method of Cleaning Ginned Cotton

Patent that "is in a ready, simple, thoroughly feasible, and practical manner to clean ginned cotton while passing from the gin to the condenser and to eliminate therefrom all objectionable matter." (line 10-14)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Planter Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a planter attachment for cultivators and " it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency." (line 10-13)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Taylor, William F. & Williams, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow produced as "a simple, inexpensive, and durable implement for plowing out stalks, particularly cotton-stalks, without turning the ground or covering the stalks, and arranged to prevent the stalks from being precipitated in front of the standard, and thereby impeding the movement of the plow. (lines 9-14)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Lassen, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Plow (open access)

Power Plow

Patent for a plow "operated by power, such as traction-engines, with which such plows may be readily connected, and which are usually so constructed as to conveniently transmit motion to the operating mechanism of the plow." (line 8-12)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Parker, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Figure or Doll. (open access)

Toy Figure or Doll.

Patent for a new model of doll or toy figure made partially from eggshells. Includes illustration.
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: French, Carrie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing Water Packer (open access)

Casing Water Packer

Patent for improved casing water-packer used for Artesian wells.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Haas, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters (open access)

Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters

Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Agee, George S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Excavating Apparatus (open access)

Excavating Apparatus

Patent for an "improved excavating apparatus adopted for use in cleaning out tanks, for excavating cellars, for dredging streams, and for other similar purposes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed." (line 9-14)
Date: August 22, 1902
Creator: Bump, James G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension Table (open access)

Extension Table

Patent for an extension table employed for dining that can be easily and quickly adjusted for different lengths. "When the table is closed or adjusted to its minimum length the leaves will be contained in the body of the table instead of having to be removed therefrom, as is usual" (lines 15-19) illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Palladino, Gaetano
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner (open access)

Gin Saw Cleaner

Patent for a gin-saw cleaner. The invention "relates to gin-saw cleansers and tooth-straighteners, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which will be simple of construction, efficient in operation, and one in which the saw-engaging knives or members may be simultaneously adjusted to regulate them for operation upon saws which are spaced apart a greater or lesser distance" (lines 8-16) illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Stanifer, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay or Cotton Press (open access)

Hay or Cotton Press

Patent for a hay or cotton press. "The invention consists, broadly stated, in a press mounted on wheels, adapting it to be hauled along a windrow in position to receive hay picked up with a fork by a man walking on the windrow side of the press." (lines 10-14). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press as it "relates to certain improvements in hay-presses, and has for its principal object to improve the construction of the power-head and pitman connection" (lines 7-10). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Dixon, Albert S. & Schneider, Jacob P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manual Motor for Churns (open access)

Manual Motor for Churns

Patent for a manual motor for churns. The invention is to "provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one of great strength and durability capable of enabling a churndasher to be rapidly reciprocated, whereby butter is quickly produced" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Faubion, Thomas Daniel Arnold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine Attachment (open access)

Sewing Machine Attachment

Patent for a sewing machine attachment that "aims to provide an attachment for use in connection with any sewing machine combining means for hemming, tucking, and braiding, the several parts being adjustable to admit of making hems any width and tucks any size and distance apart, the device being simple and comprising a minimum number of parts" (lines 9-16). Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Fain, Eliza Jane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tank. (open access)

Tank.

Patent for improvements in the support structure wooden or metal tanks (portable or permanent) though sets of internal support composed of uprights, diagonal brace-rods, transversely curved plates, and tension rods, with descriptions of the structure and illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J., Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Building Implement (open access)

Wire Fence Building Implement

Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Hall, Ed Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Stay (open access)

Wire-Fence Stay

Patent for wire fence stay that is used for securing wire lines.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Senour, Charles Henry
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for a cotton compress. This invention "is to produce a compress which will make a condensed bale of the regulation shape and which can be operated faster than the common form of compress" (line 16-20) illustrations included.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Crow, Robert Douglas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. "This invention has relation to presses having a rebounding and intermittently-operated plunger, and aims to provide a novel and positive actuating means for utilizing the power applied to the sweep in any accustomed manner (line 9-15) illustrations included.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Ziller, August & Bouchard, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Sash-Lock (open access)

Improvements in Sash-Lock

Patent for an improvement on sash locks or fasteners for a window frame to allow two sashes to be controlled by one sash.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Miller, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Map (open access)

Map

Patent for a map of New Jersey.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Mayes, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History