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Cattle-Yoke.
Patent for a new and useful cattle yoke for preventing them from breaking, tearing down, jumping over, or crawling through the openings in fences (line 6 -8).
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Kirk, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Harrington, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material
Patent for a device to remove foreign particles during the processing of cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bennard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe
Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Wiggins, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Saw Buck and Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved saw-buck and drag-saw. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the saw-buck having cross-piece, the swinging arm pivoted to and laterally movable on said cross-piece, the upper-end of said arm being provided with a slot, the saw, the saw-carriers . . . having spindles, the forward-carrier being provided with a tenon, and the saw-frame pivotally mounted on the spindles of the saw-carriers" (lines 74-82).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Nitsche, John Emil & Kowalewsky, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. This design is especially "for seeding cotton; but the machine is converted into a corn-planter by detaching the bottom of the hopper, removing the space-block, disconnecting the pitman, and then removing the slide, and substituting in lieu thereof a device composed of a bottom, having a seed-opening, and a bridge-form metallic striker, arranged across the same, and a dropper-slide, having dropper holes" (lines 95-2).
Date:
March 22, 1881
Creator:
Evans, William V. & Moore, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for new and valuable improvements on bale-tie buckles for cotton bales. This relates to buckles securing ties on cotton bales and minimize injury to the persons handling the cotton.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
McFarland, Frank Hays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Drive
Patent for a drive for windmills. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Cummins, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Machine.
Patent for a new and useful wire-fence machine that can be conveniently carried around.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Watson, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Continuous Pipe.
Patent for a machine for forming continuous concrete pipe with perforations at set intervals for water to escape from for irrigation purposes.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Wiggins, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Record-Printing Device.
Patent for record printing device that is used on cars for mechanics to record the car number and other data. The printing device is more durable especially though rough weather and easy to use by the mechanic.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Gray, Dexter B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for a new and useful insect - destroyer.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Priest, Eli Thompson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor
Patent for an improved tractor where the "propelling force is delivered through traction blocks...(lines 11-12)."
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Aerl, Van Vivian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wash Board.
Patent for a new and improved washboard. This design consists in "a suitable base-frame, a series of alternately right and left handed spirally-grooved rollers journaled therein, an inclined forked frame straddling and pivoted to the base-frame, a lever for securing the adjustment of said forked frame on its axis, a rubber, and rocking spring-arms journaled in said forked frame and connecting the same and the rubber" (lines 92-100).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Stone, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for carriage and wagon couplings, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1891
Creator:
Tanner, David Wilmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter
Patent for stalk cutter. This invention consists of rotating knives that severs the stalks into several pieces for use as fertilizer. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Davis, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washer for Wagon-Bolsters
Patent for a washer wagon-bolsters. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Martin, James Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Swinging Gates.
Patent "to simplify and improve the construction of means for opening and closing swinging gates," (lines 10 - 12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1892
Creator:
Rhodes, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spoke-Tightening Device
Patent for a spoke tightening device which can be adjusted to different lengths for different wagon wheels.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Weidemann, Reinhold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Forming Individual Foot-Forms and Fitting Shoes Thereon.
Patent for the improvement of the process of forming individual foot forms or replicas of a person's specific foot. This alleviates a person having to go through the painful process of breaking in new shoes. The foot forms can then either be kept by the individual or by the shoe dealer for making future foot wear.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Butler, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool Joint.
Patent for a new tool joint used in rotary drilling to connect the parts of a drill stem. The tool joint is not exclusive to drill stems and may be used in other applications.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Kreiter, Richard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for an improvement of a mechanical operated gate. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Burkhardt, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Filer.
Patent for a new and useful gin-saw filer.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, David M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow and Cultivator.
Patent for a combination harrow and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History