Band-Tightener. (open access)

Band-Tightener.

Patent for a lever used to tighten the bands on bales of cotton or other materials, including illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Mullane, Dennis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for new improvements in cotton choppers which allows them to be durable and strong, yet flexible with adjustable parts to accommodate soil and growth conditions including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Gerding, Fred F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for Advertising Device
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve or Cut-Off for Tanks (open access)

Valve or Cut-Off for Tanks

Patent for Valve or Cut-off for Tanks. Improved valve or cut-off for tanks especially discharge valves. Few parts, easy to assemble, easy to operate, intended for extended use.
Date: July 2, 1903
Creator: Leithauser, Peter Jerome; Leithauser, Peter J. & Leithauser, P. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Collecting Machine. (open access)

Insect-Collecting Machine.

Patent for a machine to collect insects such as cotton-bool weevils and other pests from crops.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Ferriott, Charley L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Ginning Apparatus (open access)

Improvements in Ginning Apparatus

Patent for improvement to a ginning point that provides support and holds points in position for cotton gin cylinder section.
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vending-Machine. (open access)

Vending-Machine.

Patent for device to improve price display, movement of goods, and correct coin measurement of coin-controlled vending machines.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stiles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Hub (open access)

Spring Hub

Patent for a spring hub. This invention is for vehicle wheels to make cheap and quick repairs. Illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Krezdorn, Herman A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Tie Buckle (open access)

Cotton Tie Buckle

Patent for a cotton tie buckle. This invention is an improvement for cotton-bands to prevent slipping. Illustration included.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Eddleman, Dudley E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Confection Dipping Machine (open access)

Confection Dipping Machine

Patent for a confection dipping machine. "This inventions relates to machines for coating bonbons, drop-cores, caramels, nuts, and the like with a superficial coating of confection material" (line 8-11_ illustrations included.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Jenner, Edward J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Equalizing the Distribution of Cotton in Cotton-Boxes (open access)

Means for Equalizing the Distribution of Cotton in Cotton-Boxes

Patent for an invention to equalize the distribution of cotton into cotton boxes. The invention uses air-draft elevators in-order to relieve jams and chocked conditions in the elevator-shaft. Illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Stephenson, Miner Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe Holder for Boot Blacking Stands (open access)

Shoe Holder for Boot Blacking Stands

Patent for a shoe holder for boot blacking stands. This invention is to provide an inexpensive tree stand to firmly hold in place shoes for polishing. Illustration included.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Hann, Edmund Lyne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool (open access)

Combination Tool

Patent for a combination tool. This invention combines tools for a variety uses and box to hold small items. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Brunl, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planting Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Planting Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a planting attachment for cultivators. This attachment is designed to raise and lower equally to contours of the land. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Benton, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Mill (open access)

Stamp Mill

Patent for a stamp mill. "The object of the invention is to present a stamp-mill which with a minimum of space utilized for the operating mechanism will give the maximum of output." (line 8-11) illustrations included.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Baker, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. This invention is "especially directed to gates which are adapted to swing downward form a vertical to a horizontal position and lie flush with the surface of the ground." (line 7-11) It is designed to allow the wheels of vehicles to move the gate. Illustrations included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Terry, Hiram
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heating Device (open access)

Heating Device

Patent for a heating device. This invention is for using the heat from the device to pass through to an oven for the purposes of cooking. Illustrations included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Henderson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed planter. This is an improvement on a previous patent, No. 693,724. Illustrations included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Ledbetter, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Stanchion (open access)

Cattle Stanchion

Patent for a cheap and simply constructed cattle stanchions. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Reck, Emile & Reck, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Huller, Cleaner, and Gin-Feeder (open access)

Cotton Huller, Cleaner, and Gin-Feeder

Patent for an "improved cotton huller, cleaner, and gin-feeder adapted for separating the hulls and foreign substances from the cotton, ... and feeding the seed-cotton to a gin" (line 8-12) illustrations included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Larson, Eric B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool (open access)

Combination Tool

Patent for a combination tool. "The object of the invention is in a ready, cheap, thoroughly-feasible and practical manner and in small compass to combine a rule square, bevel, miter-gage, level, and plumb, the parts to be so combined and arranged as to permit of the use of one without interference with the others" (line 9-15) illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Chambers, Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Supporter (open access)

Garment-Supporter

Patent for "an improved garment-supporter adapted to be secured to an inner garment and to be detachably connected to the waistband of an outer garment, whereby the inner garment may be supported from the outer garment." (lines 11-16)
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Waters, Richard H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Well Drill. (open access)

Oil Well Drill.

Patent for a new rotary oil drill with improvements to anchor the drill-pipe, improve oil flow, and prevent blow-outs of the drill-pipe.
Date: July 3, 1903
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Appliance. (open access)

Railway Appliance.

Patent for a railway appliance designed to prevent cars from leaving the track, as well as apply brakes to train to quickly decelerate or stop.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Sweat, Omega
System: The Portal to Texas History