Cultivator Foot (open access)

Cultivator Foot

Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Wilson, James Newton
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
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Shaeffer, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a combined cultivator and cotton-chopper, to "provide an improved cotton-chopping mechanism which is adapted to be combined with and operated in connection with a sulky-cultivator, whereby a growing crop of cotton may be plowed and chopped or hoed simultaneously" (lines 15-20).
Date: March 13, 1900
Creator: Blaschke, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for a cotton and corn planter that does not put as much pressure on the tongue of the machine as previous models and that allows the plow attachment to be lifted higher off the ground to avoid obstacles.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Goodnight, Frank H.
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator which has adjustable cutters.
Date: June 18, 1912
Creator: Cain, James N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. This invention is a class of rotary dasher churns using two paddles. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Roberts, Chandler Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an Acetylene gas generator that allows waste to be emptied from the machine without losing any gas.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Finley, Jesse T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner for Crude Oil. (open access)

Burner for Crude Oil.

Patent for "a burner for crude oil, and particularly to a construction by means which a direct or indirect draft may be utilized in the burning of the oil." (lines 11-14) and illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.; Ray, Albert J. & Wesson, Miley B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait (open access)

Artificial Bait

Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter (open access)

Cotton-Planter

Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet-Flushing Mechanism. (open access)

Closet-Flushing Mechanism.

Patent for a water closet flushing mechanism, which prevents the water from standing in the toilet bowl where it is liable to freeze in cold weather.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Parker, Thomas H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Knocker. (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Knocker.

Patent for improvements in cotton-stalk knockers. This invention "relates to cotton-knockers, and more particularly to a device of this class which may be readily attached to or combined with a wheeled cultivator of usual form" (lines 11-14). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: June 5, 1900
Creator: Chitty, Robert Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blower for Forges (open access)

Blower for Forges

Patent for new and useful improvements in blowers for blacksmiths' forges with the intention of creating less waste and a better economical value.
Date: June 19, 1902
Creator: Roach, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wire and Wireless Telephone System. (open access)

Combined Wire and Wireless Telephone System.

Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that allows 2 people who are calling through two different central operating stations to talk to each other even though there is no wire directly between the 2 parties, through the use of a wireless system.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Feeder

Patent for improvements to cotton cleaners and feeders, including illustrations
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Seifert, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frog and Guard Rail for Railway Tracks (open access)

Frog and Guard Rail for Railway Tracks

Patent for a frog and guard rail for railway tracks. Illustration included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Thomas, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Smith, Columbus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Coop (open access)

Chicken-Coop

Patent for improved chicken coop with simplified construction and modified features.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Harp, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm. (open access)

Burglar-Alarm.

Patent for an improved burglar alarm to attach to a door or window with a "simple locking device for the hammer" so that the alarm can be transported and reinstalled safely (lines 15-16).
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Moody, Winfield H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that consists of “a suitable frame, a receptacle positioned within said frame, and a gas-bell” (lines 11-13), as well as a gasometer and carbide feed. As a result, the gas generator “will continually furnish dry, cool gas and at a substantially even pressure at all times” (line 22-24). Illustrations included.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Hays, Parx Orr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Ginning Machinery. (open access)

Cotton-Ginning Machinery.

Patent for cotton ginning machinery, which separates cotton faster and more cleanly and continuously feeds cotton into the saws.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History