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Nut-Lock.
Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Payne, Lewis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil
Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 24, 1912
Creator:
Kunkel, Albert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for a chopping device that can be attached to an existing cultivator, allowing for the use of the cultivator to become a more versatile farm vehicle.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Vickers, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harvester Attachment.
Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Marshall, John Henry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome
Patent for an aerodrome which is a heavier than air flying machine powered by motorized propellers
Date:
August 24, 1909
Creator:
Sinclair, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen
Patent for an antifriction device used to "prevent dust and grit from accumulating in the anti-friction bearings" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Neighbour, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Stacker.
Patent for an improved combined rake and stacker. The improvement includes an added horse-rake for hay, which can be used to load hay into a wagon or place in a stack.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Jahns, R. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Thompson, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes
Patent for "a means whereby with one motion a stamp will be supplied from the'apparatus, moistened, and placed in position upon a letter, wrapper, or parcel adapted to receive it, and wherein a number of stamps may be consecutively placed when and as desired" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n an ant-trap, the combination, with a trough formed with a top [that is] flanged . . . of a box connected thereto by a tube terminating in a disk . . . [and] of the connecting-tubes, box, and fence" (lines 62-68).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Thompson, William Henderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beam or Girder.
Patent for a new and improved girder. This design is "composed of a vertical web and a flange or flanges, a mass of the metal in a flange or flanges projecting from the web at and near one-half the distance between the axis and the neutral line" (lines 48-53).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Cousins, Robert Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Distilling Wood.
Patent for improvements in wood distillers "wherein the liquids of the woods are extracted by subjection in a closed heated chamber or retort and carried by vaporization through the process of distillation to condensation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Spangler, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fruit, Foliage, and Flowers.
Patent for a new and improved method of making artificial fruit. This design "consists in cutting out a piece of lace or netting of the desired shape, forming the lace or netting into a bag, stuffing the bag with cotton or wool . . . picking the cotton or wool up through the meshes of the lace or netting, cutting narrow strips of tissue-paper, and applying them in layers until a covering similar to pasteboard is formed, drying the article, painting the article, sinking the article in a bath of wax heated to a point beneath boiling . . . letting it drain off, and finally applying a paint finish" (lines 34-47).
Date:
May 24, 1887
Creator:
Eve, Emma H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design "consists of a short thin plate of metal having two tongues . . . fronting each other, said plate being pivoted at one end to the bale-hoop . . . the other end of the bale-hoop being passed under the tongues and drawn tightly around the bale, the expansion of the bale on the hoop causes the respective ends to pull on the respective ends of the tie-plate . . . so as to grip the edges of the end passed between the tongues and hold it firmly" (lines 7-19).
Date:
July 24, 1883
Creator:
Arnold, Abbott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie.
Patent for a new and improved tie for bales. This design calls for one long, flat piece of scrap metal to be folded over on itself twice so that there are four layers of metal as well as a loop (or "rib") on either end. Then, a hole should be cut through all four layers with a tapered opening through the edge; this design is cheaper and more durable than previous bale ties.
Date:
August 24, 1880
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Wolf, Gustav B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hose-Coupling
Patent for an automatic hose coupling with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Herr, Herbert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic lock.
Patent for a gate lock that automatically locks.
Date:
March 24, 1924
Creator:
Parker, Robert N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Trace Clip
Patent for Adjustable Trace Clip. "The invention relates to an adjustable trace clip, and has for its primary object to provide a clip of this character in which the connecting strap between the back and belly bands may be adjusted with relation to the trace so as to permit the back band to properly fit the animal and also allow the longitudinal adjustment of the trace" (lines 9-16).
Date:
May 24, 1912
Creator:
Bradfute, Benjamine F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Separator.
Patent for a slime-separator "to provide means for automatically regulating the separate water flow, and discharging the solid proportionally with the settling of the solids in the receptacle" (lines 44-47). The patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Stretcher.
Patent for a curtain stretcher where the parts can be disconnected and readily assembled to accommodate curtains of various types. It permits stretching without screwing curtains or disengaging them from the clamps. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Hiegel, Eugene J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rail-Anchor and Tie-Plate
Patent for a combined rail anchor and tie plate. The purpose of the invention is to combine the aforementioned devices to prevent rails from cutting into the ties, overturning, and spreading.
Date:
January 24, 1919
Creator:
Johnson, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an attachment that can be connected to a sewing machine to facilitate quilting.
Date:
March 24, 1914
Creator:
Click, Washington B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History