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Surface-Treating Machine
Patent for a machine that treats surfaces. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Clarke, Alex A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine.
Patent for a surface treating machine that improves support, where the surface treating member is "driven by intermediate means from a motor displaced from the member, together with means of effecting adjustments of the surface treating member with relation to the work" (lines 13-15), with illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Clarke, Alex A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Device.
Patent for a surface cleaning device that provides a continuously moving surface treating member which is bodily adjustable in a suitable support.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Clark, Alex A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unicycle Road and Racing Sulky.
Patent for a one-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, with illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Coleman, Thomas Gardner
System:
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Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine, which has rubbing devices that will not injure the clothes and attaches to any tub and braces it.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Zachary, Archie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a mechanism to sharpen the blades of a gin saw. Includes illustrations of the device.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Beavers, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing
Patent for improved manual washing machine gearing.
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
McNeil, H. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sprinker.
Patent for a new and improved pesticide sprinkler for cotton plants. This design "provid[es] . . . a relief-valve, so that should the nozzle become stopped up at any time this valve will open and let the fluid escape through the piston without doing any harm to the pump or stopping the vehicle" (lines 14-19).
Date:
October 19, 1880
Creator:
Pinter, Francis T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case
Patent for "improvements in show-cases for displaying ribbons and in devices for measuring the same; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-13)
Date:
October 19, 1887
Creator:
McNeill, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie.
Patent for a compact railway tie with the least possible parts.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Roberts, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Metal Tank
Patent for a sheet metal tank supported by outside beams made of metal studs or sheets. The design also provides means by which the tank can be sheathed and secured by concrete.
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flower-Pot.
Patent for a new flower pot with metal siding and a removable bottom, including illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Simpson, McDuff
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Reversible Engine
Patent for rotary reversible engine. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Risley, Ward & Risley, Zeph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Potato-Digger.
Patent for a potato digger, which leaves the potatoes on top of the soil and can be used in a variety of different soil types.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Herring, Jesie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for an oil burner, which atomizes oil through the injection of steam that helps the oil to burn more easily.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Milton, John Foy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress Making Machine.
Patent for a new and improved mattress making machine. This design calls for a box with a hinged door and gauges that adjust the box to the desired width for mattress making. Additionally, slats at the bottom of the box and along the inside of the hinged lid have straps and pins that one uses to bind the mattress material after it fills the box.
Date:
October 19, 1880
Creator:
Howe, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Machine for Making Bricks.
Patent for improvements to brick making machines that will produce bricks with a textile finish.
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
Rodgers, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Appliance
Patent for a draft attachment to be used with a animal-drawn vehicle to hitch a third horse to the vehicle if need be. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Gaines, Wister F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton scraper. This design consists in "the vertical standard having the horizontal reardwardly-extending arm at its lower end, the cotton-scraper attached to the said arm and extending rearwardly and outwardly therefrom, and having the upturned curved broadened rear end forming the blade, and the clip-bolts and clamping-plate to secure the standard to the plow-standard and permit the said standard to be vertically adjusted" (lines 82-91).
Date:
October 19, 1886
Creator:
Basham, Wesley Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Letter of proposal from Warner E. Smith to the United Patent Office to put forth his invention on cultivator to improve the existing one. His invention on cultivator is for cleaning beds where the plants planted down deep in the ground. It is ideal for reeding the surface of the ground from weeds. With his proposal, Smith provided the diagram or drawing to give detail on how it is done.
Date:
October 19, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Warner E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Display-Cabinet.
Patent for a rotary display cabinet for lace and ribbons, which has a dust free delivery system, rotates to allow the spools to be wound back up easily, and has a glass window for easy viewing.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Duncan, Delorus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Signaling Device
Patent for a signaling device to be used on railroads, trolley cars, or engines. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Smith, William Philip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Dog Trip for Cotton-Presses.
Patent for a safety dog trip for cotton presses, which automatically removes the dog rods holding the cotton out of the press when it is sent up for pressing.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Wright, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head-Rest For Barbers' Chairs
Patent for a headrest to be used for chairs used by barbers and doctors. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Wallace, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History