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Saw-Sharpening Tool
Patent for a saw-sharpening tool granted to Robert S. Munger. The tool may also be used for sharpening cotton gin blades.
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Vending Machine.
Patent for improvements to fluid vending machines. The amount of money put in changes the amount of fluid distributed.
Date:
March 26, 1918
Creator:
Chandler, Jason McGregor
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Camp-Bed.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding camp beds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Long, Reuben
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Vending Machine
Patent for machine designed to vend fluids such as gasoline once a coin is inserted into the designated slot. Offers adjustment of amount of dispensed liquid, in accordance with the fluxuations in price.
Date:
September 19, 1916
Creator:
Chandler, Jason M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Baugh, Edward Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows: "This invention relates more particularly to double mold board plows, but it is applicable to ordinary sulky and other plows having a rotary colter over the plowshare and friction wheel with acts as a rotating support or sole in rear of the plow" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 15, 1891
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision-Safe.
Patent for a provision safe that keeps food cool that uses "a jacket of absorbent material inclosing a suitable frame provided with shelves for supporting the articles of food, and a vat for containing water and supplying it to the jacket by capillary action whereby the temperature is reduced through the process of evaporation" (lines 15-21). This patent improves the design of provision safes.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Stephens, James Howell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Potato-Digger.
Patent for a potato digger, which leaves the potatoes on top of the soil and can be used in a variety of different soil types.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Herring, Jesie M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Destroying Stumps of Trees.
Patent for a method of destroying the stumps of persimmon and sassafras trees using saltpeter, soda, and salt.
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
McLelland, Jacob J. E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Roasting Device.
Patent for a peanut roasting device that uniformly roasts peanuts. The peanut roaster is an automatic device that rotates through batches of raw peanuts in pre-determined intervals.
Date:
August 6, 1918
Creator:
Peckham, Samuel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Roaster.
Patent for a new and improved peanut roaster with a rotating drum that can sound an alarm after a certain interval of time and can be moved directly over a roasting flame, including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Peckham, Samuel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design "consist[s] of a central longitudinal beam having perforations, the jointed toothed frame pivoted to supports on the beam, the handles connected at their forward ends to the said beam, the brace-rods pivoted to the handles and to a cross-bar resting on the beam, and the vertical bolt adapted to the perforations in the beam to adjust the cross-bar thereupon, and thereby raise and lower the handles" (lines 85-94).
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer And Fumigator
Patent for an insect destroyer and fumigator. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 4, 1904
Creator:
Heffner, John H. & Kidd, Eugene Z.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows by providing readily-operable means for adjusting the plow-shovel on the standard, to facilitate adjustment of the shovel and of the gage with relation to each other, thereby to vary the cut of the shovel, to improve the means for holding the gage assembled with the standard, and generally to simplify and increase the efficiency of plows of this character. (Lines 14-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for a draft equalizer for animals pulling farm equipment in fields.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Glover, Milford S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Cleaner.
Patent for a dish-cleaner that is used in a sink or another container. Its object is to force "air through the water and in contact with the submerged dishes" (lines 17-18). The invention also has "a water-agitator surrounded with supports for holding the dishes or other articles in a vertical position in close proximity to the outlet-ports of the agitator" (lines 20-23).
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Bond, William Beebe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a flat shovel and a shank, of the bead on said shovel having a transverse slot therethrough, a slotted wedge inserted between said shovel and shank, and a bolt passing through said bead, wedge, and shank" (lines 95-100).
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
East, Elias
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Weevil Destroyer
Patent for cotton weevil destroyer. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1904
Creator:
Stephens, Lee Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for improvements to pneumatic cotton pickers. The principal object of the invention is to provide rotatable suction devices which will draw the cotton from the plants in one part of the rotation and drop the same cotton in the remaining part of the rotation.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Rhodes, Clyde
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Foot.
Patent for “shovel supporting feet of cultivators.” (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Graves, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Other Press.
Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Harrow.
Patent for improvements in cultivator-harrows in which an adjustable “harrow-frame is adapted to the ready attachment of cultivators, plows, sweeps, scrapers, and various forms of cultivating devices which are interchangeable with each other and can be used either with or without the harrow-teeth, according to the character of work to be done.” (Lines 80-86) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 29, 1891
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carrier.
Patent for a carrying sack meant to carry cotton to and from the field. It is not carried on a worker's back or dragged on the ground. The sack is on an adjustable axle and "may be arranged at an inclination to cause the truck to travel upon a curved line to facilitate the guiding of the same in operation; and furthermore, to provide a fender to prevent objects from falling between the cotton sacks and the wheels of the truck" (lines 14-20).
Date:
November 28, 1893
Creator:
Laird, Archibald F. & Hill, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for a wheel-cultivator that attaches to planters or plows. It provides "means whereby a planter or a plow-beam carrying any desired cultivating implement can be attached to the frame of a riding or wheel cultivator frame, and thus enable the cultivator-frame to be applied to uses other than that for which it was intended" (lines 25-30).
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Morris, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History