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Insect-Trap.
Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Cook, Katherine B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a device that combines three tools - a lifting-jack, a clamp, and a wire-stretcher all in one. It does so without sacrificing the functionality of any part.
Date:
June 12, 1906
Creator:
White, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Carrier.
Patent for a water carrier that is made up of a conveyor for a bucket to and from a well.
Date:
August 15, 1911
Creator:
Offutt, Ira Emerson
System:
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Wheel Sulky Plow
Patent for wheel sulky plow. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Renfro, William T. & Renfro, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator and Mirror-Protector.
Patent for improvements in ventilators and mirror-protectors is to “arranging pendent streamers and a rotatable fan near a mirror that the means for actuating the fan will serve to agitate the streamers for the chasing of flies from the mirror and also ventilate and cool a room by the current of wind produced by the fan.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1902
Creator:
McBride, William C.
System:
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Lamp-Turning Mechanism
Patent for head lamps that the drivers can turn while driving to light the road.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Cotton Chopper
Patent for improvement for cotton choppers “so that the operator may regulate the depth of cut, and may shift the cutting member forward or back” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustration included.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Finch, Arthur M.
System:
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Lamp.
Patent for improvements to headlight lamps used in locomotives, with illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Pitts, William Wirt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Apparatus For Washing Dishes and Table-Cutlery
Patent for improvements to a dish washing machine with specifications and illustrations attached.
Date:
August 12, 1879
Creator:
Walling, Edmund, P.
System:
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Steam-Generator
Patent for a steam generator for use with hydrocarbon burners.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutting Attachment for Plows
Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for plows. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1912
Creator:
Osborne, John E.
System:
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Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that has its oil atomized by a steam generator.
Date:
March 14, 1911
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that allows foreign materials to blow away from the burner, while it is running and is fuel efficient.
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Support.
Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the attachment.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Price, Thomas
System:
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Mail-Pouch Catcher
Patent for a mail pouch catcher. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
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Lamp-Adjusting Mechanism
Patent for improvements for lamp-adjusting mechanism for one of the lamps of an automobile for operation from driver's seat. The driver is enabled from seat to partially rotate one of the forward lamps, causing the light to follow curve of road.
Date:
September 30, 1913
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support.
Patent for a new and improved tongue-support. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive tongue-support capable of being readily applied to any vehicle" (lines 9-12). It "consist[s] of the two wires provided intermediate their ends with coils and twisted together at opposite sides of the coils to provide the spring-arms" (lines 48-51).
Date:
October 25, 1892
Creator:
Johnson, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map
Patent for a map of New Jersey.
Date:
June 16, 1903
Creator:
Mayes, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus.
Patent for a mail pouch transferring apparatus for use on trains, which consists of a crane that can be used in the same position no matter which direction the train is going past it.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus.
Patent for a mail pouch transferring apparatus that has a secure attachment to the frame.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Top.
Patent for a wind up top, which has flan blades on top that spin the opposite direction from the top.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Reed, Thomas N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirit Level Sheath.
Patent for a new and improved sheath for levels. This design "is to provide a rubber or other elastic sheath for levels, adapted to encircle the glass and prevent injury thereto in case of jars or falls, and to also form a steady securement between the level-glass and the metallic covering or housing therefor" (lines 13-18).
Date:
March 13, 1888
Creator:
Truitt, James Stuart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment
Patent for a plow attachment. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 25, 1904
Creator:
Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attatchment
Patent for "converting walking-plows into riding or sulky plows." (lines 10 & 11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 29, 1905
Creator:
Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
System:
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