Resource Type

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
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Locking and Releasing Device for Mining-Cars (open access)

Automatic Locking and Releasing Device for Mining-Cars

Patent for an automatic locking and releasing device for mining carts and cages. Illustrations included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Stroope, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt Fastener (open access)

Belt Fastener

Patent for a belt fastener. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Stenzel, Frank O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support (open access)

Buggy-Top Support

Patent for a supporter for the top of a buggy. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Putman, William C.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Apparatus. (open access)

Cleaning Apparatus.

Patent for a cleaning apparatus, which cleans objects by blasting air across them and has an air cleaning system for use after the cleaning is done.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer. (open access)

Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer.

Patent for a combined mail crane, catcher, and deliverer for trains, which can both drop off and pick up mail at the same time.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Pace, William S. & Pace, James J.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date: June 3, 1909
Creator: Thornton, William Newton
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Case (open access)

Display-Case

Patent for a display case for holding cheese. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Simon, Alex H.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signaling System for Railways (open access)

Electric Signaling System for Railways

Patent for an electric signaling system for railways which allows the engineer to see whether there is any danger or obstruction ahead on the track, and send and receive signals to and from a distant point. Illustrations included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Lacroix, Fred
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filtering-Machine (open access)

Filtering-Machine

Patent for a filtering machine which operates centrifugally to filter out solid matter from liquids. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Wilder, Richardson Timothy
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate and Coop (open access)

Folding Crate and Coop

Patent for a folding crate and coop. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Tomison, Willis Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History