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Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Parker, Francis H.
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
Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar.
Patent for " invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar" (lines 5-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Ellis, Emmett A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for improvements in churns; specifically, improvements in the construction of the cylinder and the churn-dasher. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Sullins, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for improvements to churns, "and has special reference to what are known as 'vibrating-dasher' churns." (lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder.
Patent for a new and improved clothes pounder. This design "consist[s] of an outer cone with openings and socket near its upper end, a plurality of smaller cones with open bottoms within the outer cone and having their upper ends secured to the bottom of the said socket of the larger cone, and a conical guard around the upper end of the outer cone and extended below said openings independent of the outer cone and terminating in a vertical depending flange at a distance from the said outer cone" (lines 77-87).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Davis, Jordan G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Removing Grease and Stains.
Patent for a compound to remove grease and stains from wood and fabric. Includes instructions.
Date:
August 21, 1891
Creator:
Cox, George S. & Lewis, Georgia M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pump and Motor.
Patent for a new and improved pump and motor. This design "is to produce a simple apparatus which may be connected with a main water or service pipe and which will operate by the fluctuation of pressure in said main or pipe so as to operate the pump. The device is especially advantageous in raising water from a well or cistern to a tank placed at a higher elevation, or it may be placed on a pump in place of an air-chamber and used as a feed-pump for a boiler or on a hydraulic ram as an auxiliary pump" (lines 9-18).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Record, Diary, and Ledger
Patent for improvements to books by combining "a general record, a diary, a ledger, and index leaves, including the months and days of the week and alphabetical and numerical indices" (lines 10-12).
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Meyer, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Portable Baling-Press
Patent for a "combined rake and portable baling-press, the objects in view being to provide a machine of the above class of comparatively cheap and simple construction and adapted to rake, elevate, deliver, pack, and bale hay and to apply the binding wires to the bales as formed in one continuous operation" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 7, 1892
Creator:
Shero, Christopher C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter and Feeder for Thrashing-Machines
Patent for an attachment for thrashing-machines "for cutting the bands on the sheaves of wheat, rice, or other grain, to spread the loosened bundles out uniformly, and to then feed them thus spread out into the thrashing-machine, whereby the strain on the machine can be made more uniform" (lines 15-20) and the capacity and efficiency can be increased.
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Hill, Frank R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements to a press that bales hay. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1891
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History