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Cotton and Corn Scraper.
Patent for a new and useful cotton and corn scraper.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Dove, Thoms F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Haye, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter
Patent for a corn and cotton planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Wilks, Chance
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Poke.
Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the opposite side of which the adjacent ends of the said bars are pivoted" (lines 78-83).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Stracener, Upton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad and Protector.
Patent for a new and improved knee pad. This design consists in "the combination of a body or main portion, padding contained therein, a re-enforcing piece secured to the said main portion, and a spring interposed and bearing between said main portion and re-enforcing piece . . . [a] cap-piece for knee-protectors slitted from its opposite edges . . . forming flaps, combined with connections for securing said flaps to the body of the cap-piece" (lines 72-81).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Ridgill, Angus G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Low Down Binder
Patent for low down binder. "This invention relates to new and useful improvements in low down binders; and the object of the invention is to produce an apparatus whereby it will not be necessary to elevate grain, as in common binders, allowing the same to pass down an incline to the packers" (line 14-19). Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Wolf, Davis Levi
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism
Patent for a mechanism for drawing water from wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Headlight.
Patent for a new and improved train headlight. This design "has for its object to improve locomotive head-lights by so constructing the reservoir and burner and mounting the same that they may be easily removed from and connected with the reflector without moving the latter; and it consists of a reservoir for the head-light having certain features of novelty and in various improvements in the apparatus as a whole" (lines 11-19).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Jobling, Lance L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a lock used to secure the openings of grain bags. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Chambless, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.
Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pitmen.
Patent for "a new and and useful Improvment in Crank and Pitman;" (lines 3-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Kealy, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap Gun
Patent for a trap gun. This invention is designed to "insure explosion of the charge upon the animal taking the bait and with certainty to effect shooting of game" (line 9-12). Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Thomas, Isaac N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole Head.
Patent for improvements in trolley-pole heads in which a good contact may established at all time between the wheel and the trolley-wire. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Dunn, Robert I. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch.
Patent for a switch in which it can be “automatically operated by a moving train either for the purpose of opening or closing the switch, under the control of the engineer, who without stopping the train may open the switch and run his train onto the switch-rails or a siding without slowing up the train further than is necessary to avoid derailing the train when passing from the main line to the switch or siding.” (Lines 11-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Harris, Irvin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Handling Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pneumatic cotton handling machines.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner
Patent for a gin saw cleaner. Object of the invention "is to provide a gin saw cleaning device which may be forced into contact with the saw blades by pressure exercised in the direction of the length of the cleaning device" (line 14-19) Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Jordan, George J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grading and Ditching Machine
Patent for a grading and ditching machine. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Baker, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved handcar. This design "is to provide for hand-cars a motive power which will produce a high rate of speed and which will enable a hand-car to be propelled in either direction without necessitating turning the car end for end" (lines 9-14). It consists of "an opening in its platform disposed over one of the axles, a rectangular casing arranged over the opening, a drive-shaft journaled in the sides of the casing, a train of gears consisting of cog-wheels and pinions connecting the drive-shaft and the axle, and the crank-handles arranged at the ends of the drive-shaft" (lines 64-71).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Parker, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Making and Blocking Machine.
Patent for a new and improved ice machine. This design consists in "the combination of a non-conductive casing containing a freezing tank having water supply and discharge pipes, a water-tight diaphragm supported in said casing above the bottom of said tank having downwardly-tapered hollows in its upper surface and corresponding upwardly-tapered molds in its under surface, and a refrigerating medium contained within the said casing over said diaphragm and filling the hollows in the latter" (lines 82-91).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Knox, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen.
Patent for a new and improved insect screen. This design consists in "the combination, with the wire frame and the base to which the ends of the wires of said frame are connected, of the auxiliary strands bracing the arch-wire of said frame, and the book-holder having the upper end of its supporting-wires bent and connected to the longitudinal wire of said frame" (lines 18-24).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Rice, Robert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steering Attachment.
Patent for a steering attachment that keeps the steering wheels of a motor driven vehicle straight. This device is simple and relatively inexpensive, among other advantages.
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Huffman, Orla L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strainer for Oil and Water Wells
Patent for a strainer for oil and water wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved stovepipe attachment. This design "consists of a receptacle formed in two parts, which are secured together around the stovepipe just below the point where the latter enters the chimney immediately above the stove. The object of [the] invention is to construct an attachment which may be readily secured to or detached from the pipe for the purpose of catching any dirt or soot which may drop from the chimney, thus preventing it from reaching the stove" (lines 14-24).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Pearson, Harriet N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheep-Shears
Patent for sheep shears. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Ascue, Elbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History