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Vacuum Electric-Arc Furnace.
Patent for "an improved electric furnace having means to positively insure the thorough fusion or reduction of the substances placed therein without loss due to combustion or the oxidation of such substances, while at the same time providing an effective distribution of the heat and the prevention of the loss of carbon by combustion" (lines 17-25). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Wright, George Hudson & Clark, Daniel J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
Date:
August 1, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mill for Grinding or Crushing Cotton-Seed or the Like.
Patent for improvements to the grinding or crushing of materials in mills by eliminating the hammering action by the use of supported ball bearings. This decreases the amount of power needed to operate the mill and includes illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Nolen, Robert Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Materials.
Patent for improvements in process of and apparatus for sizing and classifying comminuted materials, according to the size of the particles of the material. It allows for particles to be classified according to size and discharged from the apparatus in different receptacles, with the particles in each receptacle being substantially the same size.
Date:
June 1, 1915
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners
Patent for a device that enhances the performance of cotton-cleaner machinery.
Date:
May 1, 1877
Creator:
Greaves, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Methvin, Boling J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant Traps
Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
April 1, 1873
Creator:
Ames, Theodore G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination Locks.
Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1873
Creator:
Hall, Phidello W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manifold-Writing Tablet.
Patent for writing platform which allows for the creation of carbon copies.
Date:
April 1, 1879
Creator:
Morris, Robert, C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump and Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved pump and sprinkler. This design "consists of a portable force-pump provided with a capricious air-chamber, and having on the end of its discharge-pipe a sprinkler of novel form, which causes the liquid to be ejected in a fine spray. . . . [This] provide[s] a simple, durable, and effective device, designed especially for use in sprinkling cotton-plants with poisonous solutions, to protect them against the ravages of injurious insects and worms" (lines 7-17).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Polansky, Alois Josef
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the gang plow by the plows arrangement and pivoted beams to be adjustable for convenience, including illustration.
Date:
May 1, 1855
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hats
Patent for "a new and improved ventilated hat...which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification" (lines 3-5). including instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 1, 1868
Creator:
Watkins, M. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill Or Tongue Support
Patent for a thill or tongue support. This invention is designed for use with horse buggies. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Roark, Lafayette L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper Attachment.
Patent for rotating stalk-chopper attachment, including illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1900
Creator:
Nix, Spencer W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 1, 1910
Creator:
Werner, Fridolin, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for an improved stalk-cutter granted to Reuben L. Price. Improvements made to more effectively trim stalks over uneven ground.
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Price, Reuben L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine
Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
Date:
January 1, 1889
Creator:
Harpst, Edgar S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a vertically adjustable machine that "reduces liability to clog" (line 18) and reduce clogging.
Date:
June 1, 1914
Creator:
Scott, Oscar F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Box.
Patent for an invention of simple and efficiently designed ice boxes.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Bauer, Frederick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for a simple and easy attachable stalk cutter for the beam of a plow for efficient stalk cutting, including instructions and illustrations
Date:
February 1, 1916
Creator:
Modrall, Don A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Huller-Gin.
Patent for a Huller-Gin. This device has an improvement that reduces the cotton being wasted by getting clogged in the hulling chamber.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History