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Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine
Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.
Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Tightener.
Patent for a lever used to tighten the bands on bales of cotton or other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
July 7, 1903
Creator:
Mullane, Dennis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds
Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date:
November 7, 1905
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scissors or Shears.
Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Allison, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling
Patent for an apparatus for forming cotton batting into dense rolls to prepare them for bailing and pressing. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Banister, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister Plow and Planter.
Patent for a combined Lister plow and planter that both breaks the ground and plants seed. Appears to be a type of early tractor.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Portable Baling-Press
Patent for a "combined rake and portable baling-press, the objects in view being to provide a machine of the above class of comparatively cheap and simple construction and adapted to rake, elevate, deliver, pack, and bale hay and to apply the binding wires to the bales as formed in one continuous operation" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 7, 1892
Creator:
Shero, Christopher C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Measure and Tally.
Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Holland, John Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c.
Patent for a compound that is meant to remove grease, oil, paint, and similar things from delicate cloth. It is composed of gasoline, chloroform, sulfuric ether, alcohol, spirits of ammonia, powdered borax, powdered carbonate of soda, and saltpeter in lumps.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Ehman, Benedickt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Steamer.
Patent for a chain steamer that has an improved means of propulsion with a uniform speed despite a changing current. It does not allow the boat to laterally deflect. It is especially meant to be used with tow boats that travel on fast-moving, shallow streams. It can be used to move ferry boats across fast-moving rivers as well.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Pfeifer, Edmund I. & Pfeifer, Eduard A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.
Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Fitzgerald, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design consists in "[t]he buckle, having the side re-entering angles, the bars, and the slot the edges at the apices of the re-entering angles being expanded . . . with strengthening-fins formed therein" (lines 65-70). This novel construction and combination of parts allows for "the provision of a tie-buckle that can readily be applied without extraneous fastening devices either with the tie or the buckle itself, and one which can be repeatedly used, and one which can be manufactured at a minimum expense and with the least possible waste of material" (lines 10-16).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Copeland, Eliza A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corner-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for improvements in corn-planters and fertilizer-distributers is to combine the two into one machine by dividing the hopper into two compartments; one for fertilizing material and the other for corn-seeds. The bottom of these two compartments, each has its own opening design to dispense the seeds and fertilizers. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 7, 1891
Creator:
Davis, William Haywood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a "new and useful Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid" (lines 5-7) that will aid in the commercially successful production. Patent includes specifications for the composition of matter.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Blum, Sylvain; Eldridge, Hillary; Clark, Daniel J. & Lazarus, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pessary and Womb-Battery.
Patent for a combined pessary and womb-battery. It is inserted into a woman's vagina and is used to deliver medication "and to stimulate the genitals to a healthy and normal action both mechanically and electrically" (lines 11-13). The device is worn without discomfort and can be worn while pregnant.
Date:
July 7, 1896
Creator:
Keller, Martha Ellen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
McCarroll, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rat and Mouse Trap.
Patent for a cheaper and more effective trap that displays live bait but is unreachable to animals. The trap will make it "impossible for animals to escape after they have been captured" (lines 26-28), including illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Bevers, William S., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Cultivator.
Patent for combined plow and cultivator "to provide a manually operated mechanism by which the front and rear plows may be simultaneously adjusted up or down, and held in any position of such adjustment" (lines 11-15).
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Womble, Corneilous E. & Martin, Henry G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Suction and Force Pump
Patent for improvement in suction and force pumps, a pneumatic lift-and-force pump for raising water from wells.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
De Hymel, Franklin O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an airplane (or aeroplane) which provides a large number of control surfaces adjustable by the pilot, including a moveable engine.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Millican, Joel Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrostatic Control for Pumps
Patent for improvements in the hydrostatic control located in the pump. It is used as an automatic pressure governor.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
William M. Stephenson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration.
Date:
August 7, 1860
Creator:
Cottingham, G. W. & Menefee, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History