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Band for Paper, Currency, &c.
Patent for a new and improved money clip. This design consists in "[a] band for packages provided with tongues projecting toward each other and an elastic, whereby when the band is in use the tongues will project in opposite directions to receive the elastic" (lines 57-61).
Date:
September 6, 1887
Creator:
Matthews, Oscar Semmes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Sheller.
Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller. This design, "[o]n its rear face, at the upper end of the body of the corn-sheller . . . provide[s] a hinged nubber-plate, which serves as a supporting-arm, and is constructed . . . for use in breaking or cutting off the smaller end of the ear of corn, at which end unsound kernels of corn are frequently found. The nubber-plate is hinged . . . to the upper end of the rear face of the body, and when opened out extends at nearly a right angle from the body and inclines slightly downward. When folded, the nubber-plate rests against the rear face of the body" (lines 39-52).
Date:
September 13, 1887
Creator:
Price, Benjamin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Soap.
Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for said grease tank and converter" (lines 21-32).
Date:
September 20, 1887
Creator:
Grant, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Hollingsworth, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller.
Patent for improvement in corn-shellers; in which “it consists in a perforated casting provided with radial teeth or projections which extend toward its center and which is to be secured to a support having an opening through it, combined with a double-ended handle which has an opening through its center and teeth projecting from the opening.” (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Bander, Charles Bornet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Cotton.
Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.
Date:
June 19, 1890
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Leg.
Patent for a new and improved artificial leg. This design "consists in certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of parts in artificial legs, so as to make them more durable, easier of repair, and more comfortable to the wearer" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Wolf, Peter M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Bale Ties
Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
Date:
September 22, 1874
Creator:
Szabo, Alexander A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.
Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Pyeatt, Jessie Newton.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amalgamator.
Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up through them" (lines 14-24).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date:
September 29, 1896
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
McCarroll, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate
Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date:
September 29, 1914
Creator:
McCombs, Oliver A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Vehicle-Headlight
Patent for a headlight for a vehicle that is able to direct the light towards both sides of the road rather than only straight ahead.
Date:
September 22, 1914
Creator:
Kitching, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
Date:
September 17, 1909
Creator:
MacManus, Agustus, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gap Gate.
Patent for new and improved water gap gates to protect gates and barriers during natural interference, thereby preventing livestock injury.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Sattler, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Shaft Brace.
Patent for buggy shaft braces for connecting the shaft and cross bar of a vehicle, in order to eliminate malfunction of cross bar.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Brunken, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De-Aerator
Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Strite, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gathering and Exterminating Machine.
Patent for a new gathering and exterminating machine for killing insects and other crop pests, with illustrations.
Date:
September 4, 1917
Creator:
Haynes, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Burner.
Patent for improved lamp burners, which reduces explosion risk, improves wick trimming, and maintains chimney positioning.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Passenger Recorder
Patent for "automatically auditing the number of passengers and the distance traveled by said passengers while en route on a train or other public conveyance." (lines 9-13)
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Rudolf Brown, of Cuero, Texas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed.
Patent for improved cabinet bed construction features, which include allow access to mirror on either side.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Giordano, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Cylinder.
Patent for well-cylinder improvements, specifically pumps with "special reference to a pump having a reciprocating piston and being adapted for use in a deep well, where the pump cylinder is difficult to access" (lines 11-14).
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Ligon, Arthur Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History