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Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters
Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Agee, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Crouch, Jim L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new type of wrench.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Bean, Jesse A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inlet Control Valve for Flush Tanks
Patent for inlet control valve for flush tanks. Invention is indented to be an improvement on inlet control valves in flush tanks by decreasing noise levels.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Wright, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for an improved and resilient spring wheel for a vehicle.
Date:
December 23, 1913
Creator:
Collinsworth, John W.
System:
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Log-Cart.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin log carts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Bender, Gustave
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
Wrist Blotter
Patent for a wrist blotter that provides a simple and inexpensive blotter to be attached to the wrist.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Cardwell, Harland W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Basket.
Patent for a new and improved wire basket. This design "consists in a wire basket formed of a circular bottom, and a wire frame bent to form a cylinder, in the lower part of which cylinder the circular bottom is held" (lines 13-16).
Date:
February 10, 1885
Creator:
Elliott, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turnstile-Gate.
Patent for a turnstile-gate meant "to provide a gate of novel construction to be used at the intersection of a number of fences that access may be had through the gate from one to the other of the inclosures formed by said fences" (lines 13-17). It is especially meant for stockyards when several fences come together in one place.
Date:
September 3, 1895
Creator:
Cowley, Benjamin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Governor
Patent for a variable speed governor. This invention regulates speed of vehicle without stopping the motor. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Casteel, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds for Treating Chills, Fever, &c.
Patent for the improvement of medical compounds for treating chills and fevers. The patent states the components of a "True Ague Pill."
Date:
October 10, 1871
Creator:
Bevill, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Signals
Patent for a signal for an exhaust pipe of an automobile. Essentially, this device would quiet exhaust noise leaving an automobile.
Date:
February 26, 1919
Creator:
Baker, James Slayton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bucket.
Patent for a well bucket with a float attachment to prevent the bucket from hitting the bottom of the well and stirring up sand or mud.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Thomas, Eliga Moran
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tram Car
Patent for a tram car. Illustration included.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Schimff, Jacob John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps
Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date:
April 14, 1874
Creator:
Flournoy, Rice Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Affixer
Patent for
Date:
August 16, 1910
Creator:
Harwell, Marvin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Subsoil Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a subsoil attachment for plows in which the attachment can be “held fixedly relative to the plow so as to be maintained constantly at the desired depth without pushing upwardly under the resistance offered by the soil. This attachment can also be adjusted easily to plow to the desired depths.” (P. 1, lines 15-22.) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Mathis, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Vehicle.
Patent for a motor vehicle of an ordinary farm type wagon.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
McCurry, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking-Range.
Patent for a cooking-range that "heat may be conducted from the firebox above the oven, and into a lid compartment" (lines 11-12).
Date:
November 18, 1913
Creator:
Daniel, James Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Saturating
Patent for a process saturating wood with preservatives. Illustration included.
Date:
November 7, 1905
Creator:
Jones, William C.; Stratford, William R. J.; Byrnes, Frank B. & Nixon, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Buckle
Patent for trace buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
Godfrey, Walter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Starter.
Patent for starter for internal combustion motors. The starter will not emit the backward kick of the motor which could injure the operator.
Date:
March 5, 1918
Creator:
Parrott, Columbus A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Preserving Wood
Patent for a process of preserving wood.
Date:
September 25, 1906
Creator:
Logan, John Thomas
System:
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