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Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements to wrenches for removing nuts from vehicle-axles.
Date:
August 23, 1898
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple, economical, and effictive wire-stretcher that uses "the fence-post as the fulcrum for the implement or tool in using the latter to stretch the wires longitudinally from post to post, and to provide a simple hand implement or tool by which a single person can rapidly string the fence-wires from post to post, stretch the wires, and kink or twist the same to take up slack" (lines 19-26).
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Cardwell, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vibrating Churn.
Patent for improvements in vibrating churns in which the dasher is given a rapid rotary vibrating movement and with but very little exertion to the operator. (Lines 30-32) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 23, 1891
Creator:
Miller, Luther Alison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine that has an improved construction, is more efficient, and one that quickly and thoroughly washes clothes without damaging the clothes. The machine is a cylinder that has a crank-operated inner scrubbing cylinder. The machine has a spout in order to drain the cylinder.
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Walter, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Stacker.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in lumber stackers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Coleman, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vault Cash-Indicator.
Patent for a vault cash-indicator meant to "provide a new and improved indicator, designed for indicating an amount of money, commercial articles, &c.; for instance, indicating the amount of money contained in a safe or vault" (lines 7-11).
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuning Device for Pianos.
Patent for "a means whereby the strings of a piano may be easily and deliberately tuned, and when tuned they will be held absolutely rigid and unyielding under all circumstances while the pins are set in wood, thus avoiding any possibility of the jarring of the parts." (Lines 36-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Orser, Levi
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a valve made up of a shell with a water inlet and a water outlet, a perforation for the valve stem, a gable-shaped seat made from hard metal that is fitted into the shell, a valve stem that works up and down the shell and with a shoulder, a valve with a hollow neck, a soft contact ring between the gable-shaped seat and the face of the valve, a guide and cap that fits in the shell, a stem nut, and a stuffing-box.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Speer, George F.
System:
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Leg-Protector.
Patent for leg-protectors or overalls for cotton-pickers to wear to protect them from the ground. Waterproof material covers the legs of the wearer with leather reinforcement outside the knees. There is spacing around the waste for a belt, and regular fabric forms the rest of the overalls.
Date:
June 23, 1896
Creator:
Herbelin, Alfred
System:
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Vertical Steam-Pump.
Patent for improvements in steam-pumps, of which “are adapted to compress a liquefiable gas—such as that of ammonia—to a state of partial liquefaction, the pressure being subsequently removed and the liquefied refrigerating agent expanding through tubes and chambers, and the cooling effect produced by the volatile liquid again assuming its gaseous state is utilized for the absorption of heat.” (Lines 10-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 23, 1891
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a rotary-blade stalk cutting machine. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Evridge, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicine - Glass.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in medicine-glasses.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Jenkins, John Marshall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "to utilize a heretofore waste product, and by means of a dry process to reduce the same to fine particles, which, being capable of felting, constitute stock" (lines 14-18).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "is to provide the trace-carrier with a locking-brace, which is held in a closed position by the chain, which prevents all possibility of the chain from becoming detached from the carrier while in use" (lines 16-20). To this end, it consists, "with the body having a strap-fastener and an outwardly and upwardly extending hook, of a locking-plate, which is hinged at its upper end to the upper portion of the body, and its lower end provided with an inner perforated projection through which the said hook passes, and a shorter projection" (lines 78-85).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Clark, Alexander E.
System:
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Trace-Carrier.
Patent for improvements in trace-carriers in which it would “provide each with a buckle or similar means that can be attached to the back-band of a harness for horses. The purpose is to provide means to a trace-chain which may be readily inserted in the carrier to prevent from removal, either accidentally or otherwise, so long as the carrier remains in position for service.” (Lines 12-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 23, 1891
Creator:
Barton, Samuel Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Calculator.
Patent for improvements in pivoting arm and sliding arm calculators. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Mader, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Hanger.
Patent for a new and useful meat hanger, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1898
Creator:
Couch, Lizzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Gold - Washer
Patent for a new and improved portable gold-washer. This invention is to "provide an improved substitute for the crude forms of portable good-washing apparatus frequently employed" (line 8-10).
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Kahn, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator
Patent for "a combined planter and cultivator, including a cotton-chopper" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 23, 1890
Creator:
Murdock, Joseph Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Conveyer for Unloading Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved pneumatic conveyer. This design "relates to improvements in pneumatic conveyers of that class or style adapted for unloading cotton from a wagon and depositing it on the gin-stand or other place; and the object is to provide a machine whereby cotton may be readily, conveniently, and expeditiously taken from the wagon or other vehicle or dumping-platform and carried or conveyed through a pneumatic tube and deposited on the gin-stand or similar floor for ginning" (lines 9-19).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that has an improved land-slide that can be "expeditiously and conveniently removed from the shank plate of the plow, and to so construct the shank plate that the share when placed thereon will be firmly held in position and be prevented from slipping vertically" (lines 10-15). The land-slide and shank-plate are firmly interlocked.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Wherry, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History