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Automatic Lock for Cotton Gins
Patent for an automatic lock for cotton gins. It provides an automatic latch having a constant tendency toward the latching position, but yieldable to the opening of breast of the cotton gin. This is to prevent accidents involving the removing of obstruction in the gin happening to those removing the obstruction. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Henson, W.M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. The invention utilizes wire-winding reel and gear-wheels Illustration included.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Curtis, Zenas Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knife-Sharpener.
Patent for improvements in knife-sharpeners that can be clamped onto a table or similar object, including an illustration. The device has also been "adapted for use in connection with a pair of bits or cutters having convex cutting edges disposed in confronting relation, the bits or cutters being capable of adjustment to present new portions of the respective cutting edges for effective work as the occasion requires" (lines 17-23).
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Kirlin, Wiliam B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Construction
Patent for improved valve construction which permits unobstructed passage from valves to intake and exhaust pipe in motor vehicles.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Noah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Machine.
Patent for a driving mechanism to reduce the numbers of shafts and other parts needed for well drilling. The invention allows for one main driving shaft to be used as the primary source for well drilling.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Herdman, Adam H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lattice.
Patent for a simple, strong, and economic lattice that is meant for use in jail cells. It allows air and light into the cell, and they are formed with "alternately opposite depressions and elevations for the reception of the bars running at right angles thereto" (lines 12-24). It should have alternating bars of steel and iron.
Date:
February 5, 1895
Creator:
Hull, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cultivators.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Graves, Jefferson M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for Improvement in Rotary Engines concerning "the arms of the frame" (lines 9), which are powered by steam and "steam valves with arms" (line 17) including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Evens, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree
Patent for a whiffletree. This invention is "contemplated to construct doubletrees or swingletrees of peculiar form and provided with peculiar connecting parts to secure the same together" (line 13-16). Illustration included.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Burton, Robert Redmon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller.
Patent for a stalk puller that is adaptable to different size stalks, better built, and more efficient than previous stalk pullers.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Richardson, Columbus John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrostatic Indicator for Weighing Scales.
Patent for a new and improved hydrostatic indicator for scales. This design consists in "a reservoir, an outer cylinder, a hollow inner cylinder, an attached stand-pipe, and registering-dial, said inner cylinder being surrounded by and sliding within said outer cylinder, said outer cylinder being provided with an attached inlet-pipe communicating with said reservoir, said pipe being provided with two valves, in combination with a bearing-bar, side rods, and under bar, forming a frame bearing upon the inner cylinder" (lines 55-65).
Date:
February 5, 1889
Creator:
Lewis, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switching Device
Patent for switching devices. This invention is for electrically operated switch tongue throwing mechanisms and is for use in switching cars from one track to another. illustrations included.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Makley, John N.; Manett, Edward F. & Dannelly, Frank M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Setting Machine
Patent for a tire setting machine. This invention is designed for setting tires that are cold. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Baker, Charles Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Skinning Fruit.
Patent for skinning fruit chemically without the use of Alum to avoid harmful health effects resulting from Alum residue on fruit.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Thompson, Jovita Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Split Pulley.
Patent for split pulleys with interlocking parts that can be attached together without pulling the parts longitudinally.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Frank, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor For Fluid-Meters.
Patent for a motor for fluid meters. This specific construction will eliminate the friction of the moveable parts.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Bradley, Richard C. & Ireland, C. Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle.
Patent for a muzzle for horses that can be easily applied. It prevents the animal from eating while its head is upright, and opens while the horse lowers its head to graze. This prevents the horse from damaging orchards.
Date:
February 5, 1895
Creator:
Lipscomb, Cicero D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design is "compris[ed of] the parallel beams, the standards erected on said beams near the centers thereof, the transverse bars connecting the standards in pairs, the longitudinal bearing-bar secured to and between the said transverse bars, the king-bolt journaled in said bearing-bars, the sweep secured to the upper end of the king-bolt, the drive-wheel secured to the lower end of the king-bolt and having a single depending crank-pin, the press-boxes at the ends of the beams, the plungers in said press-boxes, and the pitmen" (lines 86-98).
Date:
February 5, 1889
Creator:
Mayes, Thomas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for a hay press "so that two bales will be formed in the press. . .thereby saving time and labor, and also to simply the construction of the parts without the sacrifice of power, strength, and durability" (lines 15-20).
Date:
February 5, 1889
Creator:
Champion, William Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hasp.
Patent for a hasp that "may be adjusted longitudinally to compensate for expansion or contraction of the parts to which it is applied, or which it is designed to connect, the means for adjustment being such that they may be manipulated without displacing or altering the relative positions of any of the parts of the device, and furthermore, to provide means whereby the hasp is capable of universal movement, whereby it is operative irrespective of the planes in which the surfaces of the connected parts are arranged" (lines 10-21).
Date:
February 5, 1895
Creator:
Hutton, Milton Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Pulverizer.
Patent for a new and improved soil pulverizer. This design consists in "the combination of rotating blades on a shaft adjustable forward and backward, the driving wheel shaft, the intermediate operating mechanism, and the two transverse shafts . . . the driving-wheels, the multiplying gear-wheels, the two shafts, blades, [the] shaft adjustable forward and backward by means of a lever, frame having recesses for journal-boxes, the lugs on the latter, and the connecting rod" (lines 84-95).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Rankin, John Dake & Knox, William Custis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for a stove with a combustion chamber that utilizes oil as fuel through an oil burner in said chamber, illustration included.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Cook, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Escapement for Torsion Pendulums.
Patent for a new and improved escapement for torsion pendulums. This design "consists in one or two weighted levers acting in conjunction with an escape-wheel and a spindle, which levers are used as a medium to carry force from the train of a clock to the pendulum" (lines 12-16).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Stahlberg, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History