Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects. (open access)

Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects.

Patent for a machine that removes insects from cotton plants. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Strouhal, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Device for Rolled Goods. (open access)

Measuring Device for Rolled Goods.

Patent for an improved "means for measuring rolled goods while the materials is being unrolled and also to indicate the amount of material remaining in the roll" (lines 10-13).
Date: February 10, 1900
Creator: Sauls, Henry & Cook, George S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mud Scraper. (open access)

Mud Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved mud-scraper. This design consists, "with a vehicle, of the transverse shaft geared to one of the wheels and provided at one of its ends with spiders, having its arms provided with perforations, the approximately U-shaped scrapers arranged to straddle the wheel, and the L-shaped plates or knees having one arm secured to a scraper and the other arm provided with perforations adjustably connected to the spider" (lines 88-102).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: Mangum, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester (open access)

Harvester

Patent for a harvester. Illustration included.
Date: June 20, 1905
Creator: Lampton, Flavius J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Hanger (open access)

Door Hanger

Patent for a door hanger for a sliding door, more specifically a car door.
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Mock, Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects. (open access)

Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects.

Patent for "a new and original method of destroying the Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus gradis boh) and other insects that damage cotton while growing &c., &c. (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Strouhal, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History