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Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.
Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper
Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for a bale tie buckle made up of hooks that will not come apart under pressure.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Eddleman, Dudley E. & McFarland, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Riding-Cultivators and Other Agricultural Implements
Patent for an attachment for riding cultivators and other agricultural implements which has an adjustable point that allows the same depth of furrow to be made across undulating ground.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Simpson, Charles Neil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Beauty-Pillow.
Patent for improvement in beauty pillow which is slanted to draw the skin back toward the scalp to prevent wrinkling. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1909
Creator:
Fitze, Eloise
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aseptic Fountain Syringe or Irrigator
Patent for an aseptic fountain syringe or irrigator for use by doctors that is easily cleaned and portable.
Date:
February 20, 1912
Creator:
Leach, Shirley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling - Press.
Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date:
October 21, 1902
Creator:
Curry, Monroe & Roberts, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center Foot for Cultivators
Patent for "an improved center foot or standard which is adapted to be readily attached to and detached from a beam or beams of a cultivator adjusted thereon and adapted for the attachment of a shovel, plow, or sweep of any kind required" (lines 8-15).
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Greathouse, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Shuck Chopper.
Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on top of a stationary knife-blade." (Lines 7-19) Illustrations are included.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Pluck, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin.
Patent for improved cotton gins through the "construction and arrangement of the roll box and the ginning devices" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Rake.
Patent for new stalk rake design, “especially applicable as a rake for gathering corn or cotton stalks from the ground preparatory to plowing the same or otherwise fitting it for use”, (lines 13-17) including illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1902
Creator:
Clark, Joesph Lauson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses
Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Woolery, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clip
Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in animal traps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1899
Creator:
Griffin, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas
Patent for an apparatus for generating Acetylene Gas which feeds water directly into the carbide from a main reservoir.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Hodges, Samuel F. & Lee, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Harvey, Fred Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date:
January 14, 1913
Creator:
Link, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.
Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
Date:
March 5, 1912
Creator:
Herndon, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles.
Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Stanton, James Robertson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This invention is to "provide a new and improved bale-tie which is simple and durable in construction, not liable to become accidentally unlocked, and arranged to permit its use on ordinary compresses" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Edmonston, Thomax Cole
System:
The Portal to Texas History
BLIND-STOP
Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date:
August 18, 1903
Creator:
Koenig, Charles Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History