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Gearing and Gear-Covering for Agricultural Machinery.
Patent for a gearing and gear-covering for agricultural machinery that has "an improved bearing for the ground-wheel in which wear will be reduced to a minimum, and the parts readily maintained in proper relative alignment and position, and also to produce an efficient guard for the gearing, whereby cotton and corn-stalks, weeds, grass, and other foreign bodies, are prevented from engaging and clogging the same, and thus impede the free positive operation of the machine" (lines 22-31).
Date:
December 18, 1894
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snow Plow.
Patent for a new and improved snow plow. This design "is to facilitate the removal of snow from railway-tracks, and also to prevent the removed snow from being blown back upon the track" (lines 20-23).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Grove, David E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bed for Vehicles.
Patent for a new and improved folding bed for vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 18, 1899
Creator:
Lotherington, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Emblem Structure.
Patent for an improvement in emblem structures by mounting the parts of an emblem on a rigid mounting plate.
Date:
May 18, 1920
Creator:
Seastrunk, Thomas P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie
Patent for a railway tie with hollow and plastic filled portions. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Stratton, Steuben T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing.
Patent for improvements in Railroad-crossings. Noiseless and a more durable crossing, allowing for a more maintainable foundation and less repairing compared to other crossings that vibrate and cause severe shock and damage to the foundation.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
O'Connor, Thomas J. & Culbertson, Warren W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fare-Receiver and Automatic Change-Maker.
Patent for a fare box and change maker mean to improve on fare-receivers and automatic change-makers that "automatically deliver the correct change to a passenger or other person, who deposits in the machine a coin of greater value than is the regulation fare" (lines 16-19).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Handle Bar
Patent for a bicycle handlebar
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Cortines, Ernest J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ratchet Release For Front Wheel Drives
Patent for a front-wheel drive hatchet release to be used in automobiles and other motorized vehicles.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Smith, G. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disinfectant Telephone-Mouthpiece
Patent for a mouthpiece for transmitters that contains a disinfectant used to prevent the spread of bacteria that has been exhaled into the mouthpiece. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Dixon, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester
Patent for cotton harvesters and particularly to the picker mechanism, in which the picker is able to provide means for picking the cotton and delivering the same to the desired basket on the vehicle.
Date:
February 18, 1918
Creator:
Newman, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder.
Patent for improvements in cotton-gin feeders by employing an adjustable friction-wheel to operate and control the picker-rollers and the feeding-rollers. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 18, 1902
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton choppers. A stronger, more durable, efficient, ease of operation, chopper.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Penn, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment Supporter
Patent for a garment supporter. Intent of garment supporter is to provide a cost effective and simple to use devise to hold up trousers.
Date:
August 18, 1919
Creator:
Smiley, John F
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for new improvements in seed-planters that will drop one seed at a time at different spacings, improve the force-feed operation, adapt to different kinds or sizes of seed, cover and pack the soil, and create a simpler and more efficient machine, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Ledbetter, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Badge.
Patent for design for a badge.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Edwards, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Covering for Meats.
Patent for an aromatic asphaltum and paraffin wrap to preserve, protect from air and moisture, and transport meat that will not become brittle under cold temperatures.
Date:
October 18, 1921
Creator:
Pletcher, Lyle J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in stilts.
Patent for an improved stilt involving a stilt-rod and a tube that can be slid. Includes illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1875
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Plunger
Patent for a pump-plunger, concentrating on advancements in the design, particularly catering to deep well operations and environments with challenging conditions, such as oil and water wells where fluids are mixed with sand, sediment, or debris.
Date:
October 18, 1921
Creator:
Miller, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (line 1-10).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Cutting Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-cutting machine. This design "relates to cloth-cutting apparatus, and particularly to that class wherein the fabric or other material to be cut is operated upon by revolving cutters; and it has for its object to provide devices of this character which may be enabled to cut the goods by a continuous forward movement of the said cutters" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Monday, Robert Owens
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churning receptacle for improvement in ease of operation, efficiency, and sanitation.
Date:
May 18, 1920
Creator:
Thompson, Robert A. & Morris, Lute P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle "wherein a closed frame or box is employed that is formed with a smooth exterior surface to avoid contact with and injury to the animals on which it is used, and prevent the reins from contacting therewith, and dispensing with the use of a guard thereover; and at the same time producing a secure fastening that is applied to straps without the necessity of the employment of stitches or other modes of fastening" (lines 9-18).
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Monday, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History