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Clevis.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Taylor, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Maintaining A Continuous Flow Of Sand Carrying Oil From Wells
Patent for an apparatus for maintaining a continuous flow of sand carrying oil from wells. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Cushing, William T. & Johnston, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE.
Patent for an improved automatic scale that can weigh large measurements of crops, including illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1914
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Lott, William Royal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriting machines with the aim of providing "a machine of simple and durable construction, capable of use for the ordinary purposes to which type-writers are applied, but especially adapted and designed for typewriting upon blank books, thereby facilitating the making of official records and producing records that are more legible and compact than it is possible to obtain by handwriting" (lines 11-18).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Borden, William J. & Johnson, Jahu W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Pulling Cotton Stalks
Patent for a machine for pulling cotton stalks. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Swenson, Werner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weight-Motor.
Patent for a weight motor for powering various machinery.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Wilson, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Clamp
Patent for a wire fence clamp. Illustration included.
Date:
June 15, 1903
Creator:
Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Coupling
Patent for wagon coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Keene, Charles Earnest
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in insecticides, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Carmichaelm, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Instrument for Breaking Car-Seals.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in instruments for breaking car seals, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Leyendecker, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.
Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
Date:
June 14, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Extinguishing Fire
Patent for a method to extinguish fire. In a fire event, a container holding sulfur and alum is added to a tank holding water, soda and salt which will create pressure and eject the water in the tank.
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Millis, Hiram S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design is "to provide a plow adapted to be used in connection with either single or double sweeps and to facilitate the application and removal of either thereof, and, furthermore, to provide means for steadying the plow during operation" (lines 8-14). It consists, "with the beam and standard, of the triangular brace having a series of adjusting holes at its upper end and at its lower front end curved upwardly, forwardly, and downwardly and at its extremity slotted, the adjusting-bolts . . . passed through the adjusting-holes and slot, [and] the steel shoe" (lines 6-13).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Lee, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer
Patent for an "economically and simply constructed machine adapted to be drawn along over rows of plants and to spread powdered poison over the same for the destruction of insects" while also protecting the driver (lines 10-13).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Krueger, John M. & Wunderlich, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the seeding-machine by having a lever that allows the driver to operate the hopper-box, harrow, and smoothing-roller at any time, including illustration.
Date:
June 14, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Supporting Attachment for Cultivators and Planters
Patent for the Tongue Supporting Attachment for Cultivators and Planters. This invention, according to Paul J. Block, is to provide an improved support for the tongues of a cultivator and relieve the draft animal of its weight. Illustrations are included.
Date:
June 14, 1917
Creator:
Block, Paul J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supplementary Vehicle-Seat.
Patent for a supplementary vehicle seat for buggies, which is easy to attach and remove and is durable.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Brehan, Frederick F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock, which holds securely in place and is inexpensive to manufacture.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Posey, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved tire-tightener. This design "has for its object to improve the means for lifting the felly so as to permit the insertion of a washer between the felly and the spoke, so as to take up any slack or looseness that may have occurred, and thus tighten the tire on the felly" (lines 15-20). It consists, "with a block adapted to be clamped to a spoke and an adjusting-screw, of a jaw operated by said screw and having its upper portion extended or curved to one side and then bifurcated to form two arms, each of which is provided with a fork adapted to lie against the under face" (lines 39-46).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Cayce, Robert Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Puncture-Proof Auto-Tire
Patent for puncture-proof auto tires aimed at reducing (or eliminating entirely) automotive tire punctures and blowouts. The design prioritizes the protection and strengthening of tire walls for these purposes alongside a simplicity in design which lends itself toward (comparatively) low manufacturing costs.
Date:
June 14, 1921
Creator:
Fenley, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Cleaner.
Patent for a gin saw cleaner for use in cotton gins, which cleans all the teeth of the saw at once.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Roberts, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Battery
Patent for an electrical battery. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Haschke, Juluis E. & Haschke, Feodor G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History