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Back-Brace
Patent for improvement on back braces, specifically to improve the performances of people who repeatedly stoop for their jobs. The back brace aims to relieve the stress on back muscles.
Date:
November 14, 1911
Creator:
Thornton, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage
Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Gordon, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Governor
Patent for an air brake governor improvement that regulates the pressure of fluid or air in the braking system as to prevent it from braking with too much pressure.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Williams, Leonard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scissors or Shears.
Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Allison, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle-Brakes.
Patent for "an extension-handle for the manipulating-levers of vehicle-brakes" (lines 9-10). This invention was designed especially for vehicles with extra side-boards, so the brakes can be employed as conveniently as possible while the driver would normally have a hard time reaching the brake-lever.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Edwards, Joshua H. & Edwards, Willie W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Break
Patent for an automatic break that can be applied automatically when going down any kind of hill and would dissengage whenever the vehicle drives on a flat road or up a hill.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
McKee, James A. & Hatchett, Pink C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for an ant trap,with illustrations. Purpose of the invention was to be efficient more efficient in both cost and use in comparison to other ant traps being sold at the time.
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Davis, Edwin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Cutter and Feeder for Thrashers.
Patent for a new and improved feeder and band cutter for thrashers. This design consists "[i]n a band-cutter for a thrasher, the combination with the main frame, main shaft, platforms, and mechanism adapted and arranged to cut the bands, of the crank, rod, oscillating shaft provided with the crank arms . . . reciprocating rod, and depending rod" (lines 38-44).
Date:
March 31, 1885
Creator:
Cook, Emmanuel Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Morrow, James Morton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Bale-Tie Antibuckler.
Patent for a simple and efficient device intended to be used for the removal of cotton bale ties without destroying the bale.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Meador, Lenerd E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for the ability to attach one or more plows simply and inexpensively so users can customize their plowing methods as needed.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Welch, Drew O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Word-Meter For Type-Writers.
Patent for various construction changes and improvements to current typewriters to make typewriting easier and more words to be typed.
Date:
February 1, 1914
Creator:
Winters, Warren B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Neel, Randolph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
November 6, 1906
Creator:
Land, Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade, Curtain, and Drapery Hanger.
Patent for a pair of adjustable and flexible bars and brackets to be modified with additional components (such as strips, screws, and nails) to accommodate any window or hangar length. The bars and brackets combination provide simple construction and removals of window shades, curtains, and drapes.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Rawls, Theophilus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade Support
Patent for window shade supports; specifically adjustable curtains, draperies, and shade supports. This invention is to provide a device that is strong, durable, convenient, and functionally effective for the purposes intended.
Date:
July 7, 1913
Creator:
Hammers, Wendell P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench with an adjustable handle for multiple uses, with illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Land, Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher "which may readily be employed for stretching wires to a post for stapling, for stretching or drawing the ends of wires together for tying and for drawing out or removing staples from a post" (lines 12-16).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Palmer, Joshua C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener.
Patent for a new and useful wire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Boynton, Willie Amos
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Twin Cultivating-Harrow.
Patent for a twin cultivating harrow with an especially designed coupling that connects the harrow frames. It is adjustable and is meant to cultivate corn, cotton, and similar crops.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Waldrip, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Bow Socket.
Patent for new and improved wagon-bow sockets. This design "furnishes a firm support for the [wagon] bow at both top and bottom of the socket, by which it is evident it will be rigidly secured against all lateral motions" (lines 38-41). This eliminates the "unsightly appearance, leaking, and other defects of the uneven height of bows so often resulting from the use of ordinary staples" (lines 44-47).
Date:
December 28, 1880
Creator:
Williams, Richard P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for an inflammable compound for exterminating destructive insects and animals that contains alkanet-root, arsenious acid, gum-camphor, iodine resubl., phosphorus, sulphur resubl., and bisulphide carbon.
Date:
January 8, 1886
Creator:
Shugart, T. Woodward. & Clifton, Charley D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector.
Patent for knee protectors that provide padding for the wearer when kneeling, attached by springs that allow for comfortable movement and easy donning.
Date:
July 15, 1919
Creator:
Hooker, Rufus B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in a novel arrangement and combination of wings or gates in a casing outside and independent of the wheel, whereby provision is made for adjusting the position of said wings, and consequently regulating the speed of the wheel, according to the force of the wind" (lines 7-13).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Smith, Hilliard Bonaparte.
System:
The Portal to Texas History