Heavier-than-air- Airship (open access)

Heavier-than-air- Airship

Patent for aviation prototype.
Date: September 2, 1919
Creator: Brown, George Coleman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heater. (open access)

Heater.

Patent for an under-the-bathtub heater.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Bowlus, Charles F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Handle Attachment for Surface-Treating Machines. (open access)

Handle Attachment for Surface-Treating Machines.

Patent for surface treating machines handle attachments that can be easily attached and removed.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Clarke, Alex A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a planter meant for planting corn and cotton seeds, although it can be used for distributing seed and fertilizer in general. It doesn't need a covering-shovel or supporting-wheels, and covers the seeds through adjustable covering-disks. The seeding mechanisms are operated by shafts on which the disks are mounted.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planter. (open access)

Peanut-Planter.

Patent for a peanut planter that dispenses a single peanut from the seed cans in to the feed wheel's cells.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Wilson, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Relief Valve for Cotton Elevators (open access)

Relief Valve for Cotton Elevators

Patent for Relief Valve for Cotton Elevators
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Mcdonald, Marvin Vestor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shutter Adjuster Mechanism for Vehicle Lamps (open access)

Shutter Adjuster Mechanism for Vehicle Lamps

Patent for Shutter Adjuster Mechanism for Vehicle Lamps
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Latta, Paul
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Ditching Machine. (open access)

Railway-Ditching Machine.

Patent for railway-ditching machines used "to facilitate the opening of railway ditches and the removal of dirt" (lines 41-42) including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Grove, David E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint Shock Absorber. (open access)

Rail Joint Shock Absorber.

Patent for a shock absorber for trains, including instructions and illustrations
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Meyers, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paving for Streets and the Like (open access)

Paving for Streets and the Like

Patent for paving for streets and the like invention relates to paving with specific constructions for high efficiency in resisting wear.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ruling Blotter (open access)

Ruling Blotter

Patent for a ruling blotter. This invention provides "a blotting-pad having on one face a measure, a calandar, and spaces for advertising matter, and a straight-edge secured along its edge" (lines 9-13). Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Wood, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in planters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Shofield, James Drommond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Generator and Burner. (open access)

Gas Generator and Burner.

Patent for a new and improved gas generator. This design "has for its object to improve the efficiency of that type of vapor generators and burners wherein oil and air pipes enter a casing having burner orifices and filled with an incombustible substance, which when heated vaporizes the oil" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Street, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plane for Aeroplanes. (open access)

Plane for Aeroplanes.

Patent for plane for airplanes that imitates bird flight (without added power) once an airplane has reached the desired altitude.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: McCarroll, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism for Tamper Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Feeding Mechanism for Tamper Cotton-Presses.

Patent for an improved feeding mechanism for tamper Cotton presses.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Lee, Felix L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Educational Device (open access)

Educational Device

Patent for a combined folding desk, blackboard, scroll, and map cabinet to be used for educational purposes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizers (open access)

Draft Equalizers

Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.

Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date: September 17, 1917
Creator: Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Saw Gummer (open access)

Cotton-Saw Gummer

Patent for improvements to cotton saw gummers. The patented improvements include a cutter rather than a puncher in the gummer's design, as well as means for adjusting the cutter.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Nelson, De Witt C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a cotton gin that removes lint-cotton from the saws using an air-suction mechanism instead of a brush, which pose a fire hazard and can impair the gin's effectiveness. An air-blast mechanism is also an ineffective method of cleaning lint-cotton from the saws. The air-suction mechanism sucks "the lint-cotton directly from the rear portions of the saw-teeth independently of and without a brush, and an apparatus for preventing the withdrawn lint-cotton from passing into and through the air-suction apparatus" (lines 84-89).
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Gins" (lines 4-5) with description and drawings. Improvements include a "lint-removing mechanism and designed...especially for reginning or delinting cotton-seed" (lines 13-15) and the abiity to stop the float and delinting process instantly.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewer-Clean-Out Cover (open access)

Sewer-Clean-Out Cover

Patent for specific improvements of sewer-clean-out covers that will "provide a cover for the clean out pipes of sewers, which cover will be securely held in place under ordinary circumstances and cannot be removed except by authorized parties carrying a certain form of key, adapted to release the fastening mechanism" (lines 10-16) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Linskie, Benjamin B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Fastening. (open access)

Shoe-Fastening.

Patent for improvements in shoe-fastenings by using a “pivoted clasp-lever which has a tail-piece acted upon by a leaf-spring for holding the lever in its closed or open position.” (Lines 11-13) Illustration is included.
Date: September 8, 1891
Creator: Dessoir, Julius
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History