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Knockdown Seat.
Patent for seats which are easy to set up and take down as temporary seating for events and which can be folded up in small pieces for storage.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Garrison, Thomas Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Forming Round Bales.
Patent for a method making round cotton bales at cotton gins more efficiently by providing a way of winding the bat of cotton into a ball in between press runs.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improvement to plows that allows adjustments to be made to them both vertically and angularly.
Date:
July 30, 1920
Creator:
Zebranek, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow-Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a harrow attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Kovar, William L. & Wlha, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for "a gate which can be built at a comparatively low price, which will be durable and practical, and which can be opened from either side with ease" (lines 13-17).
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Baker, Cicero McRee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Third Seat for Vehicles.
Patent for an extra third seat for vehicles, which folds up when not in use.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Bond, Tom, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener
Patent for an improved hame fastener, including illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Dodson, Roy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator Signal System
Patent for an elevator signal system that can be installed in elevators which indicates "the floor positions of all the cars as well as the car carrying the indicator" (lines 10-12), including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
McNabb, Alvin C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reel
Patent for a reel for barbed wires. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Kennedy, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Frog
Patent for railway frog which "will tend to minimize the danger of train derailment at switch crossings" (lines 12-13).
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
Jackson, George Ferris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Paper Box.
Patent for a folding cardboard box with a lid made from one piece of cardboard.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Rhodes, Albert May
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan for Rocking Furniture.
Patent for a new and improved fan for rocking furniture. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the fan-supporting frame . . . the fan adjustably journaled to the bar, and the holding forks pivoted to uprights of the fan pivoted to the ends of the horizontal arms of the frame, all arranged to form a set of fans for front and rear service" (lines 94-100).
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Unwinder and Mixer.
Patent for a fiber unwinder and mixer meant to pick apart, unroll, and mix lint-cotton or other similar material. It then presses the lint-cotton into cylindrical bales "in order to restore the cotton or similar material in such bales to the loose condition requisite for the usual process of manufacture in mills, and to mix different grades of cotton or like fibrous material, when desired" (lines 17-22).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heel Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved heel attachment. This design consists in "[t]he shoe having the sole provided with the plate having the struck-up flange and U-plate, the flange and plate forming the groove, and the plate being further provided with the perforation, in combination with the heel provided at its upper end with the plate, supported slightly above the same and adapted to fit the groove and provided with a perforation aligning with the [former] perforation, and the screw inserted downwardly through the perforation and terminating in the heel" (lines 71-82).
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Grumbach, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for a simply, durably, and efficiently constructed plow-stock that "will admit of changes being made in an expeditious and convenient manner to facilitate the grouping of the shares or plows to be carried by the stock" (lines 11-14).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Abbott, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress Stuffing Machine
Patent for a mattress stuffing machine that holds material to form mattresses, as well as compressing and stuffing the material into ticks.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Woolery, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Kin Furnace.
Patent for a dry-kiln furnace meant to improve the "heating and hot-air circulating devices for such structures, whereby all or nearly all the heat generated is utilized, thereby effecting an economy in the use of fuel and also increasing the capacity of the kiln" (lines 15-19).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Ketcham, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for a cotton harvesting machine used for gathering the cotton from the plant, stripping the bolls or pods, and cleaning the cotton in one continuous operation during the traction of the harvester over a cotton field. This cotton harvester has a rotary picking member disposed forwardly and grabbing arms disposed rearwardly of the rotary picking arms. These rotary picking members are used for receiving the cotton gathered by the said picking arms and depositing it between two vertically operable crushers for crushing the bolls or pods preparatory to their passage into the ginning apparatus.
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
Berry, Louis J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for a rotary engine, which provides a high level of power from steam and is more durable than previous engines.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Wright, William Lee Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Controlling the Flow of Fluid from Wells
Patent for device controlling fluid flow from wells which allows for drawing off oil where oil and water are both present in a reservoir.
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
Summerrow, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for a acetylene gas generator with an improved valve for sending carbide into the generator which is more efficient and cheaper to make.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Menczer, Samuel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Display-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Charles F. & Smith, Clyde D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History