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Cotton Harvester.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvester. This design's "object is to provide thimbles which are adapted to be placed over the fingers and thumbs of a person, so as to provide artificial nails, whereby the cotton may be removed from the plants expeditiously, and which may be worn with comfort" (lines 18-23).
Date:
December 30, 1884
Creator:
Winzenried, Godfrey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner. This design "is to be used in connection with a machine for removing short lint from cotton-seed . . . The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner, which is simple and durable in construction and very effectively removes all impurities from the shell of the seed. . . . The invention consists of a revolving horizontal disk-brush and of a fixed table provided with emery-slabs and perforated plates and in contact with the brush" (lines 8-21).
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling press for baling hay,cotton, and the like; is simple, durable and efficient.
Date:
February 3, 1903
Creator:
Heinrich, Ferdinand, L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Struve, Clemens A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a more durable and simple in construction, efficient in operation, and can also double as a planter.
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Heller, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper And Cultivator
Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Zoll, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful sawing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 26, 1899
Creator:
Krenek, Ignatz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddletree-Bar and Steel Fork.
Patent for a saddle-tree and steel fork, which allow the rider to have a firmer grip and allows air flow under saddle seat.
Date:
August 11, 1908
Creator:
Wroe, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine Table.
Patent for a new and improved table for sewing machines. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the divided opening in the top, the bearing-bar extending across the same below its level, the hinged sewing machine plate or support, the hinged filling-section and its under-folding hinged extension, whereby the top may be entirely closed over the machine" (lines 20-27).
Date:
July 26, 1881
Creator:
Williamson, Weldon Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Sharpening Machine
Patent for Saw Sharpening Machine. "have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saw-Sharpeners." (lines 5-6) Including illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1885
Creator:
Eidelbach, Andrew C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Gummer and Sharpener.
Patent for a multiple saw gummer and sharpener.
Date:
February 15, 1887
Creator:
Eidelbach, Andrew C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Cap.
Patent for a stove pipe cap that attaches to the top of a chimney and prevents "birds from building their nests in the smoke stack or pipe, which causes chimney fires" (lines 21-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Fojtik, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Crushing Clods of Earth, &c.
Patent for a implement for crushing clods of earth, whose spikes can be held at different angles.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Meinen, Diedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon Holder.
Patent for a new and improved ribbon holder. This design consists in "[a] rotary ribbon-holder case made in sections having slots and arc-latches, and the removable rotary-spindles, having squared portions to engage the spools and projecting heads, formed with necks to engage the arc-latches and key-sets" (lines 70-75).
Date:
November 6, 1883
Creator:
Lane, Isaac Theophilus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to improvements in plows, particularly to that portion of the plow known as the point; and it has for its object to produce a point that may be reversed, so that both ends may be utilized or may be made to project sufficiently to convert the plow into a sub-soil plow. To this end the invention consists of a blade with two or both sets of bolt-holes and a double-ended point with holes nearer one end than the other" (lines 11-21).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Rhodes, William Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Ditching-Machine.
Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
McGehee, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton worm destroyer, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Yeager, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post.
Design patent for a fence-post which consists of flanges at the edges of the post, with their openings, and the base-piece turned at right angles to the post.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Tabken, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Frame for Spools or Reels.
Design patent for a frame for spools or reels.
Date:
February 8, 1898
Creator:
Scherrer, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells.
Patent for new and useful improvements in devices for forcing water out of wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Baca, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Schaefer, Henry P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Raising and Transporting Vessels.
Patent for "a new and useful construction of barge having simple and powerful means for raising ships and vessels to a sufficient height so that the same may readily be carried through the water over shallow places or bars, and the barge is also equipped with means for being propelled through the water to carry a ship or vessel, and also for being propelled over a track, so as to act as a combined locomotive and ship-car when carrying a ship or vessel over dry land." (Lines 14-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Schramm, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Machine.
Patent for a new and improved dredging machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a boat or the like, provided with depending hangers at its bow and stern, of the shaft journaled in said hangers, and provided with a spiral screw extending throughout its length" (lines 88-92). It is "for removing sand-bars and similar obstructions in the beds of harbors or in streams by loosening the sand or the like, so that it will be suspended in the water and carried off by the natural or created current" (lines 22-26).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Crockett, John Richardson
System:
The Portal to Texas History