Cotton-Packer. (open access)

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an improved cotton packer, which automatically restarts when it finishes a bale.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Cass, Eral B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Halter and Weaning-Muzzle. (open access)

Combined Halter and Weaning-Muzzle.

Patent for a combined halter and weaning muzzle, "the halter being adapted for use independently of the muzzle and the latter being detachably connected to the halter" (lines 17-19). The halter is "the combination of a chin-strap and nose-band made in one piece and a weaning nose-band" (lines 18-20).
Date: July 7, 1896
Creator: Schow, Ottinus E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meridian State Park [Rack Card] (open access)

Meridian State Park [Rack Card]

Card advertising Meridian State Park with brief descriptive information and a summary of activities, facilities, and other features of the location.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Cooler. (open access)

Liquid-Cooler.

Patent for a liquid cooler consisting of "few parts of simple form" (line 13) and constructed of wood and metal, including illustrations. The liquid cooler can be thoroughly cleaned, making it possible to maintain a "sanitary condition" (line 17).
Date: July 22, 1913
Creator: Hanna, Oscar V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Wiring Tool. (open access)

Bale-Wiring Tool.

Patent for a bale wiring tool that "consists of a shank of proper length and diameter, with wire clamping and cutting mechanism on its lower end, and mechanism on its other end to rotate said tool" (lines 23-27). It also has "two independent clamping and cutting jaws, so that one wire can be clamped in the tool, while the other wire can be drawn tight around the bale and then placed in the tool and clamped and cut off, when the tool can be rotated by a brace or by a rack and pinion...and the wire twisted to form a tie" (lines 28-35).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain Conveyer for Binders, &c. (open access)

Grain Conveyer for Binders, &c.

Patent for a new and improved grain-conveyer for binders. This design "relates to improvements in reciprocating grain-conveyers for binders and harvesters in which arms fold for the rearward movement of the conveyer and unfold for the forward movement to shift the grain on the platform to the inner inner end or off the inner end of the platform. The objects of the invention are, first, to provide the vertical side arms with extensions hinged to said vertical arms so that the upper ends of said side arms will fold grainward and so that they can be unfolded at the grainward end of the platform" (lines 12-24).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Raising and Lowering Mechanism for Harvesters. (open access)

Raising and Lowering Mechanism for Harvesters.

Patent for improvements in raising and lowering mechanism for harvesters that can be raised and/or lowered at both ends simultaneously with power from the drive wheel, while also being cheap, easy to manufacture, and durable.
Date: July 12, 1892
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Casing (open access)

Well-Casing

Patent for a sectional well casing. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hardy, Paul
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hoe-Handles. (open access)

Improvement in Hoe-Handles.

Patent for the improvement of hoe-handle tightening devices, including illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Littleton, W. R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for improvements in milk coolers. The invention "has for one of its objects the provision of a simple and inexpensive knockdown construction which will permit packing into compact form when desirable. Another object is to provide a milk-cooler having adjustable shelves of improved construction, whereby milk pans or pails of different sizes can be easily accommodated. A further object .... is to provide a milk-cooler of the water-evaporation capillary-feed type which will be strong, compact, and of large capacity and provided with improved means for draining, catching, and retaining the water, holding the fabric, and adjusting and securing the shelves" (lines 9-23). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Dean, William Volney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Lowering and Raising Well-Tubes (open access)

Tool for Lowering and Raising Well-Tubes

Patent for a tool used for lowing and raising well tubes. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hardy, Paul
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument. (open access)

Surgical Instrument.

Patent for a new and improved surgical tool. This design consists "[i]n a surgical instrument, the combination, with the rod having the stepped head provided with grooves, of the springs, the pin, the stepped shell having offsets, the sliding sleeve, and the [other] pin" (lines 14-18).
Date: July 14, 1885
Creator: Poynor, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Cultivator. (open access)

Sulky Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved sulky cultivator. This design consists in "the beam having the cross-bar at its rear end, and the rearward-diverging brace-arms connecting the beam to the ends of the cross-bar, the links hinged to the rear ends of the brace-arms and pivoted to the sulky-frame, the hand lever fulcrumed on the frame, and the rod connecting the hand-lever to the front end of the beam" (lines 40-48).
Date: July 24, 1888
Creator: Hazlewood, James Allan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History