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Air-Cycle
Patent for an air cycle that allows a person to fly by pedaling. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Price, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer.
Patent for a combined smoke-consumer and vaporizer that increases fuel efficiency in furnaces.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Davis, Othman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Administering Medecine to Live Stock.
Patent for for a device to efficiently administer medication to live stock.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Holliday, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a tool to enable its user to turn certain objects, such as nuts and bolts, efficiently.
Date:
January 9, 1917
Creator:
Bonelli, Liborio C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher that can easily stretch a wire in a series on a fence in such a way that the stretcher doesn't need to brace against a post.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Sparkman, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Round Cotton-Bales.
Patent to improve automation for forming round cotton bales in baling presses, including illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Cagle, Carter M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful machine for the destruction of the Mexican cotton boll weevil and other insects, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Strobach, Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Body Construction
Patent for improvements to vehicle body construction, particularly corner-irons. The design of the product claims to be simple, economical, and provide a compact and firm joint for the vehicle body. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Dowling, Stonewall J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Irrigation Apparatus.
Patent for an irrigation apparatus that can be used in various size fields and mimics the falling of rain.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Roddy, Isham L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks
Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
De Long, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for machine "designed to be carried by a cultivator or mounted upon wheels and adapted to discharge the fumes of sulfur and other insecticides upon cotton and other plants to destroy the cotton-weevil, caterpillar, worms, and various other forms of insect life [and to] provide a construction which will insure a steady feed of the sulfur or other insecticide employed and thereby render the discharge of the fumes regular and of uniform strength" (lines 12-23).
Date:
April 10, 1899
Creator:
Passmore, Benjamin H. & May, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trapping Device.
Patent for a fish trapping device.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Rains, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a cotton stalk cutter, which cuts the stalks into small pieces that easily decompose into the soil.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sikes, Rufus N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Casket
Patent for casket constructed of glass.
Date:
January 9, 1917
Creator:
De Camp, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment
Patent for an attachment that follows behind planters, to smooth out affected soil.
Date:
January 9, 1917
Creator:
Drummond, Josiah D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for an improvement to reversible plows. The plow specified is capable of throwing dirt to both the left and right sides.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sramek, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Truck for Corn-Binders.
Patent for an improved tongue truck for Corn binders.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Curtis, Fred W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump Operating Apparatus
Patent for improved pump operated apparatus
Date:
January 9, 1917
Creator:
Schilder, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Cloth Rack.
Patent for an oil-cloth display rack that includes a measuring device along the side.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sisler, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable motor for driving pumps, sewing machines, and other small machinery. The motor is reliable and does not break easily, and the weight cord can be easily wound on its drum.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Thrasher, Benton C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for a gate latch "comprising pivoted arms having hooked front ends which are normally spread out" (lines 85-87), including illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Drennan, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Filer.
Patent for improvement in gin-saw filer in “which the saws may be sharpened without removing them or any other operative part from the gin and wherein the files in sharpening one tooth automatically operate to impart a partial rotation to the saw to bring the next saw-tooth in position to be filed.” (Lines 11-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Reynolds, Richard J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for a harrow which can be attached to a cultivator in place of a plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Cowart, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History