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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
Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds
Patent for an apparatus for chilling and whitening lard compounds that produces stiffer lard.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cranking Device
Patent for a cranking device. Illustration included.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Christensen, Petter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Brush and Currycomb
Patent for a combined brush and currycomb for cleaning horses. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Sikes, Rufus N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for a bedstead on rubber wheels which allows easy removal of the wheels to fit the bed through narrow doorways.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Blacknell, Elihu
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Machine
Patent for an acetylene gas machine designed to " automatically feed different grades of carbid successfully in variable quantities according to the amount required" (lines 9-11).
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Wallace, William A.; Bosley, Lee Wooden & Bosley, Daniel O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Stand.
Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1901
Creator:
McClary, Rufus E. & Gray, Thomas S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper where the chopping blades are connected to a cultivator frame, and the frame is made to reciprocate causing the cutters to chop in both directions, including illustrations
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Lancaster, Benjaman C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "a machine of this class which chall be simple, inexpensive, and efficient in operation" (lines 9-11).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Chambers, Abram
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin.
Patent for a new and improved clothespin. This design consists in "[a] wire clothes-pin composed of a pair of spring-coils connected by a loop, the free ends of the wire forming said spring-coils being extended in the direction of said loop and connected by a ring or link which affords a bearing for the said loop when the latter is inserted between the free ends of the wire" (lines 79-85).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Stewart, John Adkerson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bucket Bail and Lid Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved bucket-bail and lid-fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the bucket and the ears, of the wires pivotally connected to said ears, the links pivotally connected to said wires, the cross-wire connecting the said links, and the bail loosely connected with the ends of the said wire" (lines 92-97).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion & Reid, Oliver Phillip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for an adding-machine meant to "add fixed amounts of money received or to calculate the number of days a laborer has worked or the number of fractions of days" (lines 14-17). Mounted keys have mechanisms that rotate a ratchet wheel or disk. "Secured to the shaft upon which this ratchet wheel or disk is mounted is a rate-indicator, consisting of a disk divided off into radial sections, and also divided by lines running parallel to the circumference of said disk, dividing the same up into sections, which indicate money advanced on pay-roll, addition column, total amount at a fixed rate, and the number of days worked by any workman" (lines 25-34).
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
McElyea, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.
Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Stock.
Patent for an improved animal-stock that holds animals during branding, dehorning, castrating, &c. It looks like an open-topped cage where the operator puts the animal, and the animal cannot move. The invention is on a platform and can tip to one side and a chain is tied from the top of the machine to the bottom of the frame.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Schecher, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Machine.
Patent for improvement on a bale forming machine that will operate easily, positively, and automatically. This invention described for forming and automatically securing wires around bales of hay and other like materials. It has a special object that is an improved form of clutch for connecting the wire twisters and needles and disconnecting them from a driving means. The clutch will permit the plunger in the bailing chamber to perform a predetermined number of strokes after the completion of the bale to be tied.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Freeman, Lawrence K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Tightening Tool
Patent for a tool for tightening automobile wheel chains that is "simple in construction and may be manufactured at a comparatively low cost" (lines 14-16).
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Ruthven, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Saturating Oils
Patent for the process of saturating oils. This is a continuation of the treating and improving petroleum hydrocarbons application serial number 792615 filed 1913-09-30.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Almer McDuffie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for an improved clothes pin to provide a simple, efficient, and practical device.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Newsom, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for a compound to kill insects, formula and instruction on how to mix the ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Smith, Byrd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer.
Patent for a well straining plug that fits inside of a pipe.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
McEvoy, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bailing Apparatus
Patent for specifications of Well Bailing Apparatus.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Carroll, Monroe W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Spacing Attachment for Baling-Presses
Patent for a hay baling press attachment, which automatically spaces the wires and prevents them from becoming tangled between bales.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Grant, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a simple and efficient knee-pad "made of leather or other pliable material, padded with a yielding lining to give comfort to the wearer" (lines 9-11). It prevents gravel, moisture, and other things from injuring the knee of the user.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dowling, Stonewall Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel. Illustration included.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Wylie, Alfred R. & Wright, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History