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Plow-Beam.
Patent for "effective means whereby the component parts of a plow-beam can be relatively adjusted according to the nature of the work in hand or to meet certain conditions, thereby facilitating the work and increasing or decreasing the draft." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Miller, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for regulating the width of the furrow-slice of a "sulky" or "wheel" plow, with illustration.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Gauntt, Granville B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment for Planters.
Patent for an invention "to equip any style of planter with a plow attachment for breaking and opening the soil in advance of the furrow-opener and seeding mechanism." (Lines 8-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Conoley. Malcom C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Shoe
Patent for a planter shoe. Illustration included.
Date:
August 16, 1910
Creator:
Pogue, Steward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planting Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planting attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1900
Creator:
Weddle, John Crit
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planter attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 22, 1898
Creator:
Brock, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-body having slots formed with an enlargement at their forward ends near the lower edge of the mold-board, and having a laterally-projecting lug upon the landside near the point, of a detachable share and point having inwardly-projecting headed studs for engaging the slots in the mold-board, and having a perforated landside flange fitting upon the lug at the landside of the body" (lines 64-73).
Date:
June 30, 1885
Creator:
Snow, Abner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in plows, having for its object the provision of simple and highly-efficient means for adjusting the position of the outer drag-bars and shovels and for regulating the depth of penetration of the central shovel" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 4, 1888
Creator:
Foster, Joseph H. & Kimbro, Jeremiah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the share having the keeper on the mold-board and the arm, the detachable point bearing against the outer side of the arm and having the tongue engaging the keeper, and the lever fulcrumed to the mold-board at a point between the keeper and landside, and having the short arm adapted to lap the joint between the point and mold-board and to engage the outer end of the tongue to lock the latter in the keeper" (lines 82-92).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Hyer, Robert Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for a new and useful tire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Heater
Patent for tool heaters "adapted to heat a soldering iron by gas" (lines 9-10) to increase the heat applied to the tool, including illustrations.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Juergens, Ernest
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine
Patent for internal combustion engine.
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Box, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supplementary Vehicle-Seat.
Patent for a supplementary vehicle seat for buggies, which is easy to attach and remove and is durable.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Brehan, Frederick F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Musical Instrument.
Patent for a new plucked string instrument "having a peculiarly sweet tone and which may be easily played" (lines 16-17), including illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1906
Creator:
Williams, Amanda A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stop-Cock.
Patent for a stop-cock adapted to be used with water service pipes. It features a key operable lock stop-cock whose parts must be manipulated at specific times in order to open the passageway.
Date:
January 23, 1912
Creator:
Suess, Walter E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for a Tire Tightener that tightens the tire by expanding the felly of the wheel.
Date:
October 31, 1905
Creator:
Alten, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for a new invention to improve tire-tighteners."Provides a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device capable of firmly engaging a felly and a spoke and adapted to be readily adjusted to tighten a tire" (lines 12-15) and includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Ferriott, Charley L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock
Patent for a "cheap, simple, and durable nut-lock which will be efficient to prevent a nut from working loose on a bolt, to prevent the bolt from turning in its socket, and to also permit the bolt to work or play slightlyin its socket to yield to the movement of the rails when a train is passing" (lines 20-26).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Nelms, Alexander P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for invented a new and useful Nut-Lock. Invention relates to improvements in nut locks of the class known as "spring and ratchet," for the purpose of proving a simple, cheap and easily operated nut lock without injury to any parts, and in which the locking means are concealed and protected while in the operative positions (10-15)
Date:
March 14, 1893
Creator:
Arnold, Eliphalet L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Submarine Plow.
Patent for a simple, durable, and inexpensive submarine plow that has an adjustable beam with a plow on its lower end. The invention is meant to have a beam that is "capable of easier and more effectual adjustment to suit the conditions of the operation being performed" (lines 16-18).
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Halton, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow.
Patent for a new and improved sulky-plow. This design represents an improvement in sulky plows due to its novel combination and arrangement of crank-axle, tongue, angular guide-braces, diagonal brace, and adjustable collars (lines 85-87). This novel arrangement results in a plow that is simple, durable, and inexpensive.
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
McCormick, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for gate-latches in which the gate will close automatically and may be opened by releasing the latch by hand or by the manipulation of the gate. (Lines 10-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
McRae, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for a gate. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolf E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stovepipes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Riviere, Walter P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History