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Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Shuck Chopper. (open access)

Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on top of a stationary knife-blade." (Lines 7-19) Illustrations are included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Pluck, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clip (open access)

Clip

Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Porter, Louis H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap or Dip (open access)

Animal Trap or Dip

Patent for a trap for small animals. Illustrations included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Morris, Leopold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Johnson, Joshua J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings (open access)

Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings

Patent for an improved method of connecting sucker-rods, couplings, or ropes so as to minimize wear and extend the life of the materials, with illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle

Patent for a bale-tie buckle.
Date: November 6, 1911
Creator: Armstrong, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scissors or Shears. (open access)

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
Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators. (open access)

Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators.

Patent for “ore-conveying surface for electrical separators, and particularly to a structure adapted for use with static electricity.” (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bird-Trap. (open access)

Bird-Trap.

Patent for improvements to a device used to trap birds, to keep them from damaging or consuming agricultural crops..
Date: November 19, 1901
Creator: James B. Barry.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Wire Mat. (open access)

Flexible Wire Mat.

Patent for a flexible wire mat that is portable, loosely woven to shake out dirt and mud, and which prevents the edges form curling up to trip people.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Shelton, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Fastening (open access)

Bale-Band Fastening

Patent for bale bend fastening that includes a winding-key engaging the lapped ends of a bale-band and a lock for retaining the winding key against the reverse movement after the latter has been turned to wind the connected ends of the band for the purpose of taking up the slack in the latter (Lines 8-15)
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closure for Cistern-Cleaners (open access)

Closure for Cistern-Cleaners

Patent for a closing mechanism for cistern and well cleaners. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Moore, Gervias T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Molding Whetstones (open access)

Apparatus For Molding Whetstones

Patent for an apparatus for molding whetstones. Illustration included.
Date: November 29, 1904
Creator: Cameron, Neill C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE. (open access)

AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.

Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Dukesmith, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil

Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods. (open access)

Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.

Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William Leslie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto-Door Stop (open access)

Auto-Door Stop

Patent for a door stop that is cheap to produce and holds doors firmly.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Hill, Ulysses H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Floating Vessels. (open access)

Apparatus for Floating Vessels.

Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.
Date: November 12, 1901
Creator: Debose, Albert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine. (open access)

Well-Drilling Machine.

Patent for “a new and improved well-drilling machine adapted to be driven by horse-power and arranged to permit of actuating the drilling tools for drilling purposes and to allow of conveniently and quickly raising the tools from the well…” (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Moore, Robert Burns
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop. (open access)

Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop.

Patent for combining statement-blank and envelop that comprises a signature that provides the ability to add the bank statements in a paper that could be folded to create an envelop.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Harwell, Mace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton

Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Kelly, Hiram H.
System: The Portal to Texas History