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Rescuing Texas History, 2019
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The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
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States
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Month
Fruit-Picker.
Patent for a fruit picker that allows the user to stand on the ground and separate fruit from its stem and that allows the fruit to fall in such a way as to prevent bruising. Additionally, the cutting teeth are adjustable.
Date:
May 8, 1917
Creator:
Young, Valner W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calculating-Machine
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in calculating machines. Whereby substantially correct calculations may be registered or recored without using a series of superfluous or immaterial numbers. The machine will round prices up to the nearest cent. For example, $0.024 becomes $0.02 while $0.025 becomes $0.03. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Hardgrave, Everett J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Gatherer.
Patent for a fruit gatherer whereby fruit is picked without injury to fruit or tree.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
White, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design of the Child's Quaker Bonnet
Patent for ornamental design bonnet manufactured out of the coarse fiber loofah.
Date:
September 26, 1913
Creator:
Schwenke, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cake-Stripping Machine
Patent for a cake-stripping machine which provides novel means for stripping cloth off the oil cake. It is also to provide means for trimming the cake after the cloth has been stripped off the cake. The scope of the invention is to improve generally and enhance the utility of devices of that type.
Date:
August 24, 1915
Creator:
Miller, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion Tire.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in cushion tires for vehicle wheels" (Lines 12-13), including illustrations.
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Gunn, Daniel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Camera.
Patent for "means for accurately focusing the main or photographic lens without relying upon the scale; to provide means for determining the full extent of the view to be photographed; and to provide for seeing the image upon a ground glass up to the moment of exposure." (lines 10-16)
Date:
August 15, 1916
Creator:
Overman, Charles Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cake Cloth Remover and Truck Loader.
Patent for a cake cloth remover and truck loader which can mechanically remove the press cloth from cotton and linseed cakes and deliver the cakes for loading on a truck.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Lowry, Walter Jack
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter for Rotary Boring-Drills.
Patent for an improvement to Hughes' previously patented rotary cutter design for oil drilling equipment (no. 930,759, 1909), to increase the cutting surface area and durability of the cutter.
Date:
June 15, 1915
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using coupler-head, coupling-pin, different shapes of plates, operating-lever and link-lifter to “couple and uncouple cars without necessitating a person passing between the cars.” (Lines 14-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
McBride, Thomas Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Covertible Stock and Freight Car.
Patent for an improved process of constructing convertible stock and freight train cars, including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Wyatt, Everett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Valve Lock for Motor-Cars.
Patent for a fuel shut-off valve for motor cars. The device would prevent fuel from flowing from the tank to the engine with the turn of a key, preventing the vehicle from being stolen.
Date:
March 15, 1921
Creator:
McQueen, Roy O. & Batson, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Tongue
Patent for a a tongue that can be connected with a cultivator where the free lateral swinging of the tongue and the cultivator can be induced.
Date:
June 15, 1920
Creator:
Franklin, Iva A. & Mangum, Sam E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain for Vehicles.
Patent for side roll curtains on foldable automobile tops. The invention's aim is to fit multiple sizes of vehicle tops and be able to be raised and lowered easily without interfering with the the vehicle top's folding function.
Date:
November 9, 1920
Creator:
Schwarz, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crank
Patent for a crank to provide a starter for an internal combustion engine. If the engine backfires, this crank will ensure that the operator will not be injured.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Bates, Samuel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent provides for an improved "guiding of the cultivator through the movement of the seat" (lines 17-18). The plow is guided by the driver using the seat and his foot to guide the cultivator and plow.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Wilson, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Heater For Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for a fuel heating system designed to be incorporated into combustion engines.
Date:
April 1, 1919
Creator:
Vaughan, E. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for cultivator with illustrations and certain improvements on the invention.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Whisenant, David A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curing-House.
Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator "particularly adapted for cutting stalks in rows" (lines 110-111) and is designed to travel in a straight line with less side movement.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Mills, Samuel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for turning and clearing cotton.
Date:
February 25, 1919
Creator:
Goodman, W. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Economizer for Engines
Patent for a device to increase the fuel efficiency of and reduce carbon deposits within combustion engines by means of an air controlling valve that supplies heated air to the intake manifold of the engine while it is running. The device is self-regulating, using a series of valves to deliver heated air in proportion to the degree of suction created by the pistons.
Date:
March 9, 1920
Creator:
Minor, Edward Lynnwood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crank.
Patent for automobile attachments where the motor can be cranked to start without danger to the operator from an engine back-fire.
Date:
August 31, 1920
Creator:
Gilley, Zachriah E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Culvert.
Patent for a culvert which is to be used for sewers or other underground conveyers. Its is to be composed of varying materials that can be easily shipped and jointed together to form the sewer or other underground conveyer.
Date:
March 23, 1920
Creator:
Charliss, Charles F. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History