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Bale-Band Buckle
Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Registering and Denoting Device and Label-Holder.
Patent for a combined registering and denoting device and label holder for use in stores to keep track of how many items are sold and what is left in stock.
Date:
December 26, 1911
Creator:
Parten, Wilbur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke
Patent for an animal poke which is worn around the belly of the cow or other animal, and pokes the animal when it pushes against a fence and has a hook attached to the back of the poke which will catch onto the fence if they try to go underneath or over the fence.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Bush, Caswell C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister Plow and Planter.
Patent for a combined Lister plow and planter that both breaks the ground and plants seed. Appears to be a type of early tractor.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Killing Rodents
Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Palmer, Austin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Rope Fastener
Patent for improvements in design for wire rope fasteners, includes Illustrations.
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Widmer, Louis John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Grain Knife.
Patent for an improved corn or grain knife that is simpler in construction and inexpensive to produce. This corn or grain knife is "adapted for use in the hand of the user for clipping the tops of standing grain such as corn, by the simple act of opening and closing the hand" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1918
Creator:
Holliday, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Word Counting Device for Type-Writers
Patent for a word counting device to be used with a typewriter. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Girand, Wilberforce D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Working Tool.
Patent for a new and useful wireworking-tool. "This invention relates to a wireworking-tool particularly adapted for use in twisting wire-ties around posts and over runners, drawing staples, and cutting wires" (line 8-11).
Date:
February 4, 1902
Creator:
Hargrove, Benjamin O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for an improved wire-stretcher that is able to stretch wires while simultaneously holding the stretched wire during stapling.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
Kidd, Burrell L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash.
Patent for an improved window sash that is meant to "provide means for securing a sash in its frame whereby it is capable of free movement, and at the same time is dust-proof, wind-proof, rain-proof, and snow-proof" (lines 9-13). The sash does not rattle and cannot be displaced from the outside.
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Roach, George W. & Ralph, Sidney L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretching Spool-Carrier.
Patent for a wire-stretching spool-carrier that can be easily mounted to the back of a wagon and can stretch wires to the desired amount of tension. Coils are on the mount on the wagon.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Williams, Thomas P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher.
Patent for an improvement to devices that receive mail bags from moving locomotion.
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Ryan, Augustus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers-Stretcher.
Patent for a trousers stretcher that removes wrinkles and creases from trousers by stretching them. The stretching tension may be increased or decreased as desired.
Date:
May 7, 1918
Creator:
Johnston, Renord C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence-Stay Machine.
Patent for wire working machines, specifically for automatically making wire fence stays. This machine can be operated manually and it is portable.
Date:
April 30, 1918
Creator:
Alverson, Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Machine.
Patent for a mechanism used to mount the beam and to connect to the axle in a listing-machine, a class of braking-plows. The mechanism will provide lever support and a means for securing the segmental rack while still being simple, efficient, durable, and inexpensive.
Date:
October 21, 1902
Creator:
Matthews, Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in listing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Blanchard, William R.; Matthews, Lafyette & Watkins, Cisero
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in listing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Blanchard, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Truing Locomotive Driving-Wheels
Patent for improvements in machines for truing the driving wheels of locomotives. Other possible uses include truing freight car wheels or similar car wheels.
Date:
February 3, 1914
Creator:
Tyler, Joseph C.; Behrends, John A. & Lake, Parks
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "consists in the combination of the main bar, which is provided with a head having a suitable recess to catch over nuts, with a sliding head, which has two surfaces to act in connection with opposite ends of the head, but out of line with each other, and a spring-actuated catch, which catches in suitable ratchets made in the main bar, so as to hold the sliding head in position" (lines
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Hamrick, Jerome Miller.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Brake.
Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement of the brake lever the said lug or projection enters a tooth of the ratchet wheel and stops the revolution of the same" (lines 14-27).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Boulte, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Utensil.
Patent for a kitchen utensil that can be used for washing dishes, scraping cooking vessels, and cleaning ornamental glass and silver.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Adair, Annie E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Axle
Patent for a vehicle axles. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Wagner, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History