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Closet-Seat.
Patent for a toilet seat that helps support users with rectal diseases.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Ellis, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism.
Patent for a well mechanism with an overhung vertical drive pulley which functions as a bearing and oil reservoir for improved lubrication of the bearings; also, improved pump construction and shaft support.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canvas adapted to slide in the frame" (lines 9-21).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an improved animal trap that can catch a large variety of animals, including fish, and does not injure the animals. Bait is placed in the trap, and the door on one end is spring-activated. A hinged door on the top is where the operator can take out the animal.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Crockett, William E. & McAdams, Richard E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Hills, Lorenzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Lime.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Walsh, Patrick A. & Walsh, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Twin Cultivating-Harrow.
Patent for a twin cultivating harrow with an especially designed coupling that connects the harrow frames. It is adjustable and is meant to cultivate corn, cotton, and similar crops.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Waldrip, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer.
Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Binkley, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement.
Patent for device for easily picking up leaves from a lawn. The device consists basically of spikes mounted on a wheel that pick up leaves when the machine is run over a lawn and then are deposited in a recipticle.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Murrah, Louie T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Device.
Patent for a well drilling device that uses wire cable in the drill.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Owen, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Latch.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 18, 1899
Creator:
Lott, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for a liquid fuel burner for use in stoves that completely burns the fuel.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Hawkins, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating System.
Patent for an irrigation system that has lockable valves and will not freeze in the winter.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
McCrimmon, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device For Car-Couplings.
Patent for a new and improved locking device for car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 18, 1899
Creator:
Stewart, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tube-Expanders.
Patent for improvements to tube expanders with springs rigidly secured at one end, detachable rolls, and the ability to fit tubes of different sizes.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Rooney, Hugh L
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus
Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Martin, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Cooling Device.
Patent for a water cooling device in refrigerators and iceboxes that provides drinking water from the ice compartment.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Boyer, Robert Y. & Caldwell, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Cutter.
Patent for tie cutters used to cut railway ties into parts in preparation to discard them from the tracks after their decay.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Harber, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projecting Apparatus.
Patent for developing projecting apparatuses. This projecting apparatuses invented has continuous operation and manual operation is removed.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Chapman, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock for use on railroad joints.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Seeton, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Tank.
Patent for an oil tank that is fire proof and will not explode completely if it is struck by lightning.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Price, James Bain
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.
Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a certain new and useful class of machines used for distributing poisons for the purpose of killing insects, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 18, 1899
Creator:
Braun, Emil.
System:
The Portal to Texas History