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19,456
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56
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19
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4
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1
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1
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1
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Collection
Texas Patents
18,568
Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
887
UNT Scholarly Works
76
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
5
The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
1
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States
Decade
Month
Churn
Patent for a churn. This invention is a class of rotary dasher churns using two paddles. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
Roberts, Chandler Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine
Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Harrow and Roller
Patent for a combined harrow and roller for pulverizing and eliminating unwanted growth from the ground. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Younger, Walter E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety-Burner
Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Splettstosser, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts the stalks with a sliding cut and has multiple blades that are adjustable.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Henry, Reeves
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Holder.
Patent for improvements in bolt-holders by “providing a combined bolt-holder and screw-driver…. in which the hook or engaging member is quickly and conveniently adjustable to any angle to allow the tool to be employed in various positions to engage bolts set.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 25, 1902
Creator:
Carter, Hiram C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner for Crude Oil.
Patent for "a burner for crude oil, and particularly to a construction by means which a direct or indirect draft may be utilized in the burning of the oil." (lines 11-14) and illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.; Ray, Albert J. & Wesson, Miley B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operating Vending Machine
Patent for a coin operated vending machine. Illustration included.
Date:
December 6, 1904
Creator:
Davis, Alvah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Hart, Granville M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Rail Fastener
Patent for a bed rail fastener. "The purpose of this invention is to provide novel features of construction for a bed rail fastener, which afford a very secure connection of the ends of the side rails of a metal bedstead with the head and foot posts of the bed." (lines 9-14). Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Berry, Thomas O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Lock Joint or Device.
Patent for a combination lock joint or device for sectional poles that prevents bending of the pole and allows for sections of the pole to be easily taken on or off.
Date:
July 25, 1911
Creator:
Carleton, Ernest William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm
Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Halstead, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Checkrein Attachment
Patent for checkrein attachment. This invention is intended for use with harnessed horses. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Clary, John A. & Butler, Hard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment.
Patent for Cotton-Chopper Attachment. This invention relates to cotton chopper attachments for cultivator frames and has for its object to provide an attachment of simple structure which may be easily and quickly applied to the frame of a cultivator or detached from the same" (lines 9-14).
Date:
October 3, 1911
Creator:
Mathus, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
February 7, 1905
Creator:
Woods, John Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle-Making Machine
Patent for a buckle making machine for forming wires into tie buckles for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap with a new kind of trigger fir closing the door to the trap.
Date:
December 13, 1910
Creator:
Hatchell, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Valve
Patent for a valve used for well drilling designed to be confine fluid around the pipe. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 28, 1909
Creator:
Kreiter, Richard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivator-Beams
Patent for an attachment for cultivator beams designed to help adjust cultivators while in usage. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Barham, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing.
Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Millen, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bottles. This invention is to "provide an improved vessel of this class the neck of which is formed in such manner and provided with attachments so constructed that when the vessel has been filled and the attachment applied the vessel may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused" (line 12- 18).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait
Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date:
June 16, 1908
Creator:
Caldwell, Charley D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction
Patent for metal beams used in building construction that have perforated plates to allow the passage of concrete through the plate when the metal piece is embedded in concrete thus strengthening the attachment of the metal and the concrete.
Date:
May 14, 1907
Creator:
Keyser, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History