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Apparatus for Delivering and Hauling Seines
Patent for an apparatus for delivering and hauling seines that can be used in deeper water and is safer than the ordinary method of using seines.
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Duffy, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ballot-Voting Machine
Patent for a ballot box that counts the number of votes in the box.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Brown, Flora & Senez, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench which "may be efficiently employed in places which are inaccessible to the ordinary wrench."
Date:
August 24, 1915
Creator:
Culbertson, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turbine-Motor
Patent for improvements in the construction and use of turbine motors.
Date:
February 19, 1918
Creator:
Smithey, Walter Duke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Lunch-Rolls.
Patent for a machine that makes lunch rolls. By using the machine, people (particularly street vendors) can make hamburger rolls similar to the Mexican hot tamale.
Date:
May 14, 1918
Creator:
Wiseman, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Stretcher and Splicer.
Patent for a new and improved wire fence stretcher and splicer. This design "relates to improvements in wire-fence stretchers and splicers; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts" (lines 10-13).
Date:
March 25, 1884
Creator:
Pierce, Jonathan E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "a frame having two arms, one carrying a fixed clamp and the other a roller, a windlass mounted on said frame having a rope passing over said roller and adapted to be fixed to an end of wire, and a central clamp consisting of a rigid bar on the frame between its arms, a notched clamp pivoted thereon, and a ring for retaining the clamp" (lines 6-14).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Ainsworth, Phineas Hardaman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Distributing Poison or Plants
Patent for a simple and efficient machine "for distributing or dusting poisonous powders onto growing plants to rid them of destructive insects" (lines 9-12).
Date:
February 12, 1889
Creator:
Brown, George R. & Brown, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Distributing Poison on Plants.
Patent for a new and improved machine for distributing poison on plants. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheeled-frame, a counter-shaft thereon driven from the wheels, a poison-hopper, an air and discharge pipe communicating therewith, a fan giving air-blast through said pipe, and an agitator in the poison-hopper, of wheel and belt-gearing operating the fan and agitator from the counter-shaft on the frame" (lines 112-119).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Brown, George R. & Brown, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improvement to the plow by providing a plastic or plastic-like material to help sticky, thick soil and clay to glide over the surface and decrease frictional resistance, including illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Fleehearty, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proportionate Scale.
Patent for a proportion scale used for measuring cotton seed and lint. Illustration included.
Date:
September 4, 1900
Creator:
Brown, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Removing Floors, Siding, Scaffolds, etc.
Patent for a tool that is used to remove floors, siding, scaffolds, etc. The device is designed to save material and labor. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 12, 1912
Creator:
Hunt, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proportionate Scale.
Patent for improvements in scales which would quickly and accurately determine the proportion of the lint contained in seed-cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
Brown, George Raymond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Threshing-Machine
Patent for a threshing machine "especially adapted for the cutting and threshing of small grain" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Haynes, Thomas Stanley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Threshing-Machine.
Patent for a harvester in a threshing machine, which can be put at different levels from the ground.
Date:
August 31, 1909
Creator:
Haynes, Thomas S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Colter
Patent for plow colter. Illustration included.
Date:
September 5, 1905
Creator:
Cone, Jesse Fielder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment
Patent for Harness Attachment
Date:
September 12, 1916
Creator:
Eidman, Guy. G
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle
Patent for Non-Refillable Bottle
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Burch, Charles E
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock for railroad joints, which keeps the nuts in place in the tracks.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Vuncannon, Thomas Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tank Furnace
Patent for a tank-furnace for the purpose of an easier way to heat water. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
November 27, 1917
Creator:
Yaeger, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Core.
Patent for a tire core with interlocking sections that can be removed easily from built tires to reuse, including illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Gillette, Walter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for a new and improved stock car for railroads. This design "has for its object to guard the cattle from such injury as is likely to occur to a car full of cattle by the sudden starting or stopping of the car; to furnish means for guiding the cattle into the proper compartment of the car, and to furnish means for working the device by a train-hand on top of the car" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 3, 1885
Creator:
Pierce, Jonathan E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for a new and improved boxcar. This design "is an improvement in movable transverse partitions for stock-cars, which are employed for separating the animals by individuals or groups. It is more particularly an improvement on such partitions as are suspended by sliding loop-hinges from a horizontal rod, and provided at the bottom with feet that enter sockets in the floor of the car, whereby the partitions are adapted to be fastened or released by a vertical movement" (lines 9-19).
Date:
July 13, 1886
Creator:
Pierce, Jonathan E. & Pryor, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Poison.
Patent for poison holders which the poison can be freely distributed without accidental disastrous result. The poison inside the holder can be saved for future use. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 8, 1903
Creator:
Shelton, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History