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Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing Presses.Speight,
Patent for a device that can be attached to a printing press, for the express purpose of being able to cut multiple copies of cards from a single sheet of card stock with metal dies.
Date:
December 10, 1901
Creator:
Speight, Winchester Franklin,
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvester
Patent for a corn harvester "for use in harvesting crops such as corn and cane, the purpose being to provide a machine of this type of simple, durable, and compact construction and which will be light construction and not fatigue the team, since the body or frame supporting the operating parts is balanced upon the ground or supporting wheels" (lines 12-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1901
Creator:
Sewalt, Matthew E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.
Patent for a new and improved cotton and corn planter design with an axle that has agitators, including illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1878
Creator:
Hall, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Condensers.
Patent to improve the compressing-roller design in a cotton gin, to keep the mechanisms from clogging. This is an addition to a previous patent by the same inventor that improved methods of cleaning the cotton. It includes an explanation with references, and illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1878
Creator:
Donovan, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a new and improved Shovel-Cultivator design with adjustable parts and various shapes of shovels, including illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1878
Creator:
Smith, Matthew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.
Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Cass, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multifunctional Micropipette Biological Sensor
Patent relating to a multifunctional micropipette biological sensor.
Date:
May 7, 2010
Creator:
Choi, Tae-Youl
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Vegetable-Cutter.
Patent for a vegetable cutter which is to be used as a grater.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Wittenborn, Edmund A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interest-Computing Device.
Patent for a mechanical interest computing device, which is designed to be simple to build, maintain, and operate.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Harris, Ira S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Folding and Compressing Cotton Batting.
Patent for a new and improved cotton folder and compressor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a table provided with a series of transverse rolls of the same size, a reciprocating carriage mounted on the rolls, and a pair of super-imposed feeding-rolls arranged in line with the carriage, of a base arranged at the end of the table and provided with two opposite pairs of standards, the pair nearest the end of the table having vertically-opposite rolls, and the other pair of standards having a single roll, and a series of transverse feeding-rolls mounted on the base" (lines 46-57).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Keying Device for Cutter Heads
Patent for a keying device for cutter heads. This invention is designed attaches cutter heads to rotate shafts to align the cutter head. Illustration included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Ash, William D. & Herndon, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator Support for Line Wires
Patent for an insulator support for line wires. This invention is designed to support the cross arms used with telephone and telegraph poles. illustration included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Hoybook, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Blind Slats
Patent for a locking device for blind slats. "The object in view is the provision of improved means formed with a resilient member for engaging the slat adjusting strip for turning the same and exerting strain thereon for preventing accidental movement thereof and of the slats" (lines 17-22). Illustration
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree
Patent for a whiffletree. Illustration included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Jackson, Oliver S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel
Patent for a hydraulic swivel made to control back pressure and designed to be resistant to wear. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 10, 1907
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G. & Norris, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.
Patent for the new and improved production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons; "[t]his invention relates to the production of dichlorinated hydrocarbons of the ethylene series, and particularly to the production of mixtures of dichlorinated hydrocarbons containing dichlor-ethylene and dichlor-propylene from mixtures of ethylene hydrocarbons containing ethylene and propylene." (lines 13-20)
Date:
December 10, 1915
Creator:
Brooks, Benjamin T. & Smith, Dillon F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spreader for Telephone Receiver Casings
Patent for a spreader whereby the casing of a telephone receiver has shrunk in a manner the cap has become loose. Illustration included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Cox, Pierre M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton Picker
Patent for an improved Pneumatic Cotton Picker. This invention was created to eliminate the tendancy for leaves to be bundled in with the cotton when picked by other Pneumatic Cotton Pickers.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Radford, Will H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mower.
Patent for a mower that cuts crops that grow in rows and can be cut by a reciprocatory sickle in which the mower frame is attached to a cultivator frame instead of a shovel. One of the gears "is carried by a cultivator wheel for reciprocating the sickle bar by the travel of the cultivator" (lines 20-23), including illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Pate, William H. & Moss, Turner F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for a new and improved stirrup. This design "has for its object to provide an improved stirrup wherein shall be combined lightness with strength, and wherein is provided a removable slipper and protector designed for use in winter" (lines 12-18).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Syringe.
Patent for a syringe that has "vaginal points adapted to be connected with the tube of a hand-bulb or fountain syringe" (lines 13-15). There is a tube with a bulb in the middle, a syringe on one end, and a cap on the other end.
Date:
December 10, 1895
Creator:
Day, Elisha Little
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing-Machine
Patent for improvements "to afford facilities for the more ready and perfect protection of the plant while the pulverizing-blades are cultivating the soil around it; second, to provide a better and more ready means of guiding the pulverizing-blades along the row I attain these objects by giving my guiding-fender a motion independent of the motion of the pulverizing-blades along the row and around the plants" (lines 13-19).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists in "the combination of the frame, the king-bolt at the center of the same, the plunger, the pitman pivoted thereto, the double-armed lever centrally-mounted on the king-bolt and provided with loops or bridles at its ends and acting on the pitman, and the supplemental lever having its end engaging one of said loops or bridles" (lines 24-31).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Brown, Lemuel J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soldier's Cart
Patent for an "inexpensive, light, strong, and conveniently-arranged carts adapted for carrying the rations, baggage, and accouterments of one man, and adapted also when coupled together for the safe carriage of disabled men from the field by the least possible number of attendants, and adapted also to be coupled together in pairs side by side, and to be coupled infront of each other and also to a mule-cart to allow one animal to draw the baggage of from six to ten or more men, and to carry from the field two, four, or six men at a time, the carts .being thus as well adapted for hospital service as they are for relieving or lessening the fatigues of the march" (lines 9-24).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Gentzen, Herman
System:
The Portal to Texas History