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Attachment for Riding Breaking-Plows
Patent for a seeder attachment for riding breaking plows.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Harrell, Joab B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement.
Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Live-Bait Bucket
Patent for the live-bait bucket. This bucket is created with a mesh-style wire to allow water in, but keep the bait from getting out when placed in water on the side of the boat.
Date:
June 21, 1919
Creator:
Haschke, Feodor G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Stretching Wire Or Other Purposes.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for stretching wire or other purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ullage-Rod
Patent for an ullage rod. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Mackoy, Edgar S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inflatable Tire.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in inflatable tires, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1898
Creator:
Heelan, Lawrence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine
Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Steinmann, Herman Werner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Forming Walls
Patent for the process of forming walls
Date:
June 21, 1915
Creator:
Connelley, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester for Smoke Stacks.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design consists "a direct flue or smoke-stack . . . [which] projects and deflects the sparks or cinders through perforations in a vertical wall of a stack into a dead-air space that surrounds the draft-flue, there causing these sparks . . . to impinge against vertical ribs that subdivide the annular air-space that intervenes between an inner and outer cylindrical wall of the stack, gravity of the accumulating mass of cinders causing their discharge . . . through gates that are opened by the weight of the sparks above them and closed by their own gravity" (lines 15-30).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and Improved Cultivator" (lines 3-4) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stomach-Bitters.
Patent for improved stomach-bitters that promote and strengthen the appetite and general system, which lists the ingredients and proportions.
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Cooper, Isaac.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Emergency Stop-Valve For Stopping Runaway Carriages In Sawmills
Patent for an emergency stop valve for stopping runaway carriages in sawmills. This "invention is designed to provide a new and useful improvement in mechanism for stopping a runaway carriage in a sawmill, where the carriage is moved back and forth by a piston in a long cylinder" (lines 11-15). Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Edwards, Daniel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Closer
Patent for a gate closer. This invention uses a counter weight to automatically closes a gate or door. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Rhodes, Efford B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel Plow.
Patent for a new and improved shovel plow. This design "provide[s] a shovel . . . having extensible wings pivoted to its rear surface, and combined with suitable mechanism by which they may be extended and forced inward . . . second, [it] provide[s] novel means of adjusting the angularity of the shovel and its standard with reference to the beam of the plow; third, [it] provide[s] novel means for adjusting the positions of the outer ends of the handles" (lines 16-26).
Date:
June 21, 1881
Creator:
Conner, Laurance H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reflector for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design consists in "a collar provided with a bead and having two holes through said bead, a looped wire the looped portion of which is curved and the ends of which are also curved and passed through the holes in said collar and rigidly secured within said bead, and a shell the upper end of which is provided with a hole and the lower with a bail for securing the same upon the curved portion of said loop" (lines 58-66).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patent for improvements in the seals for well screens to provide a permanent joint or seal between the screen and the casing with out blocking passage.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Thomson, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Structural Unit.
Patent for a structural unit for use in construction. It repurposes crushed metal containers to create a core covered by an outer shell made of cement or similar material.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Lambert, John Raymond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Tank
Patent for a flushing tank. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Walker, Benjamin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Rail Joint Chair
Patent for a railway rail joint chair. This invention is designed to prevent deflection of the rails at the joints. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Saunders, Amos & Wilmoth, Arthur W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing.
Patent for a railway crossing, which provides track treads for trains at heavily used crossings.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Gallaspy, Benjamin E. & McCarty, Alexander H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Plate And Fastener
Patent for rail plate fastener. This invention is designed to secure rails to ties without the use of spikes. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Butterfield, Walter V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Tongs
Patent for improvements to Pipe Tongs used in oil wells by improving the strength and gripping capability of the pipe.
Date:
June 21, 1918
Creator:
Reed, Clarence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for an oil burner that attaches to locomotives.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Blackmond, William C. & Stoy, Guy Everett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nutshell Cutting Machine.
Patent for a new and improved nutshell-cutting machine. This design consists in "the ring provided with slots, the apertured plate, the cutters inserted in the slots, the set-screws adapted to hold the cutters in the slots, and the follower . . . arranged to force the nut through between the cutters, and means for supporting the cutters in the position of use" (lines 72-80).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Pecht, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History