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Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Thompson, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a clamp that is used in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Howard, Zenas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in well strainers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1898
Creator:
Booth, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Hardaway, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well-drilling apparatus meant "to provide improved means for adjusting and withdrawing drill-tools without removing the drill-rod to provide a folding reamer and means for adjusting the blades thereof, and to provide means for conveying water to the drill, whereby the drillings are carried up outside of the drill-rod or barrel" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Horton, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Lynn, John McKinzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a an inexpensive and durable jetty made from "piles driven in the ground in the ordinary way, but incase them in such a way that they will not be liable to early decay or infested by insects, which cut and destroy them when not protected" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Bryant, Benjamin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear.
Patent for a valve-gear that uses a single eccentric, "together with devices by which such eccentric may be shifted upon the shaft and locked in its various positions to effect either a reversal of the engine or a stoppage thereof with a full head of steam on, and to run the engine in one or the other direction, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Hill, Millard F. & Easley, Clifton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for an insect destroyer consisting of a steam-generator used with "removable drawers forming the fire-box and ash-pan of the generator, a safety-valve connected with the steam-boiler, and a novel form and construction of flexible discharge-tube, the same being provided with a cut-off device and with a socket-piece adapted to receive a handle by means of which the discharge end of the flexible tube may be elevated and conducted to any desired point" (lines 12-21).
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Maddux, Richard Calvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for "washing-machines which combine in one structure means for heating the suds-water and maintaining the same at the required temperature, a suds-box having chambered or hollow bottom and sides to secure a circulation of the suds-water independently of the agitation resulting from turning the drum or clothes-receptacle upon its axis, and a drum removably journaled in the suds-box and comprising longitudinal slats or bars having bent edge portions for scooping up the suds-water and directing the same into the drum and upon the clothes contained therein, whereby the washing process is greatly facilitated." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Roach, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector.
Patent for leg protectors that have "a pad or reinforcement on the knees thereof, such as will afford a sufficient protection against injury by stones or other hard substances or irregularities on the surface of the ground or other place upon which the wearer is obliged to kneel." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Herbelin, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wash Boiler
Patent for improvement on boiler washing machines so that steam is produced in conical chambers underneath a false bottom thus producing steam in less time and stirring the clothes as steam is vented upward and out of said chambers.
Date:
January 24, 1893
Creator:
Medley, John Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trawl-Line.
Patent for a trawl-line that is supported so that it "can be caused to travel continuously in the same or reversed directions at will" (lines 12-14). The invention prevents "the choking of the line supporting pulleys with grasses and other foreign matter, and also to enable the ready adjustment of the pulley son the posts to change the elevation of the trawl-line and the depth of dip of the hooks in the water" (lines 16-21).
Date:
July 24, 1894
Creator:
White, Warren Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp.
Patent for a clamp that holds the hammers in a piano. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Staple Extractor.
Patent for a staple extractor used for removing wire from the posts of wire fences. Includes illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Hunt, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Compresor.
Patent for a hydraulic compressor meant to press cotton using the minimum amount of weight and the maximum amount of strength.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "[a] back-band hook comprising a buckle provided with a lower cross-bar constructed of two parts having their inner adjacent ends terminating in depending hooks arranged parallel with each other and separated by a space and provided with inwardly-projecting ends partially closing the mouths of the hooks, the swinging hooks arranged in the space between the parallel hooks" (lines 90-98).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Miller, Amauel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone Dress.
Patent for a new and improved millstone-dress. This design is "to provide a millstone-dress having angular furrows intersecting the main furrows of the stone and of gradually increasing depth from their outward extremities to the point where they intersect the main furrows, said angular furrows being oppositely inclined upon the upper and lower stones to form a perfect cutting system, to discharge the grain over the face of the stone and throw it toward the skirt or edge thereof, thereby giving a good draft" (lines 30-41).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Snodgrass, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco Substitute.
Patent for an improvement in tobacco substitutes, by using a combination of ingredients that “will completely destroy all desire for tobacco and thus enables them to discontinue its use without any of the inconvenience or suffering,” (lines 18-21) ingredients of the compound are included. No illustration.
Date:
March 24, 1891
Creator:
Miller, Levi, H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler
Patent for a device used for cooling milk consisting of "a vessel adapted to contain any desired quantity of milk, of a cloth or fabric covering enclosing said milk receiving vessel and provided at an intermediate portion of it's length with a series of openings or perforations, and means of saturating said inclosing cloth with water" (lines 13-19).
Date:
January 24, 1893
Creator:
Nerger, Charles G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a new and useful kitchen cabinet, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1898
Creator:
Boynton, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester for Smoke-Pipes.
Patent for improvements in spark-arresters for smoke-pipes by using a “combination of a bent smoke-pipe having one complete turn downward, a cinder-piper opening into the lowest portion of said turn, and a coarse wire screen titled backward and overhanging said turn, a receptacle having a slanting bottom hinged at the upper end and secured at the lower end by means of a chin passing over a suitable roller and leading to the rear of the boiler,” (p. 2, lines 20-28) illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1891
Creator:
Hale, William B. & Duringer, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful plow attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Pool, Benjain L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History