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Horseshoe.
Patent for a horseshoe that has "a double crease in the bottom face or under side of the shoe and peculiarly-arranged corrugations or roughened surfaces in the upper side of the shoe" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 27, 1896
Creator:
Dellinger, Thomas Gamewell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved train car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1875
Creator:
Garrett, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1875
Creator:
Harper, Derastus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-pickers with design specifications and a description of applications and usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 18, 1878
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consists in combining with a frame a roller of any desired width and size having one or more slots or openings in its periphery, and so mounted as to roll over and crush the stand of cotton, except those portions which enter the slots or openings referred to, which regulate the distance apart at which the portions of the stand are left remaining" (lines 19-27).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Greer, John I.; Harper, Wiley M. & Greer, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Farley, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which "may be operated from either wheel" (lines 12-13).
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Stepleton, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists . . . in pivoting the plow-beam, provided with a shovel for making a furrow into which the seed is dropped, in between the front ends of the beams of the two covering-shovels, the seed-covering-shovel beams being secured to the handles of the machine, whereby the pivoted beam is controlled entirely by the handles; second, in pivoting the seed-box to the rear end of the beam, provided with shovel for forming a furrow for the seed to drop in, by means of the loose link or connection, so that the beam can be moved independently" (lines 14-27).
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Carter, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate.
Patent for a collapsible crate, which is easier to ship while collapsed and cheaper to make.
Date:
August 6, 1907
Creator:
Ivey, Henry Curtis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Stewart, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. This clothing pin is made of wire and designed to be used for hanging clothes on a line. Illustration included.
Date:
November 6, 1906
Creator:
Luster, Thomas A. & Stewart, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle and Back Band Hook.
Patent for a new and improved buckle and back-band hook. This design "contemplates certain improvements in combined buckles and back-band hooks; and it consists of a buckle having, or to which may be separately applied, a peculiar hook or tongue" (lines 10-14).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Munger, Ennis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Feed Regulator.
Patent for a new and useful boiler feed regulator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Mitchell, Charles Bradley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Clamp.
Patent for a wire clamp.
Date:
July 14, 1914
Creator:
Peckenpaugh, John Ervin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Kinard, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine
Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date:
March 12, 1901
Creator:
Perry, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine
Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
Date:
March 12, 1901
Creator:
Perry, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot and Shoe Indicator.
Patent for a new and improved boot and shoe display. This design "is to provide an indicator for the use of retail dealers in boots and shoes, or other merchandise and wares, by which apparatus the stock can be kept with great accuracy and facility. To that end . . . an indicating-plate with slides [is included], which is to be attached upon the boxes, shelves, drawers, or other receptacles for the goods, as an indicator for showing what goods are contained in the receptacle" (lines 8-17).
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
Woodlief, George T. & Dunn, George Roe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle-Bit
Patent for an improved bridle bit for veterinary services, including illustrations.
Date:
March 31, 1914
Creator:
Mateer, Wilbur N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle.
Patent for non-refillable bottles which can be filled and emptied easily with inexpensive construction. Instead of a stopper, a bottleneck pattern can be used which is efficient and safer.
Date:
August 5, 1902
Creator:
Holland, Willie Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators.
Patent for a carbide-feed device for Acetylene gas generators, which prevents moisture from getting into the carbide and causing it to stick to the walls of the feed tube.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Weaver, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Catcher.
Patent for an insect-catching device with collection receptacles that operates on skids for better maneuverability in fields.
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator
Patent for an improved version of a machine which aids in the processing and maintenance of cotton plants. Includes description of parts and their use and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Robinson, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter
Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Peeler, John Wiliam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History