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Condenser for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Condenser for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for a new means of separating air from cotton, expelling the air while the cotton is condensed and released for baling.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Distributer. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.

Patent for improvements on cotton cleaners and distributors, specifically means for pneumatically raising cotton, cleaning the dirt from said cotton, and releasing quantities of cotton collected in the distributor.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Seifert, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing. (open access)

Bearing.

Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Godsey, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hydrant and Stop and Waste Cock. (open access)

Combined Hydrant and Stop and Waste Cock.

Patent for a hydrant water cock, which stops water from flowing into the hydrant when it is turned and drains the hydrant.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Bunch, Walter R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condensing-Pump. (open access)

Condensing-Pump.

Patent for a condensing pump with a new type of valve mechanism.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Leggett, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Kinard, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth. (open access)

Artificial Teeth.

Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate. (open access)

Automatic Gate.

Patent for an improved automatic gate with levers, cam-blocks, camways, and cam-rods. It is centrally pivoting, uses a pulley, a cam groove, a forked bearing, chains, and chords.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Everton, David Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register. (open access)

Autographic Register.

Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Norcross, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
Date: September 17, 1909
Creator: MacManus, Agustus, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines.

Patent for improved, cheap, and simple stalk-cutting technology with shielded protection, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: McCray, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking Tool (open access)

Wireworking Tool

Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Dickey, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer. (open access)

Well-Strainer.

Patent for a well strainer, which has wire screen that is wound around the form without the use of soldering.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Basye, Edwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for an internal combustion engine for multi-cylinder engines, which has automatically opening valves powered by the exhaust gas.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Thomas, Percy Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Water-Tanks (open access)

Valve for Water-Tanks

Patent for a valve for water tanks. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Braly, Hugh L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck (open access)

Truck

Patent for a conventional truck designed to lift heavy freight above the ground.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Haltom, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter (open access)

Transplanter

Patent for a transplanter to move a rooted cotton plant and the soil around it to a different location. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Matthews, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine Valve. (open access)

Steam-Engine Valve.

Patent for a steam-engine valve that has an "improved rotary valve capable of feeding and exhausting one end of a steam-cylinder, and easily controlled and operated" (lines 18-20). This makes the engine easily controllable.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Ford, Andrew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mower or Reaper (open access)

Mower or Reaper

Patent for the improvements of machines called mowers or reapers. It includes an explanation of the improved specifications.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Love, Patrick H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spike. (open access)

Spike.

Patent for a railroad spike "which can be used in soft-wood ties." (lines 15-16) including description and illustrations.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Teele, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Regulating Mechanism (open access)

Speed-Regulating Mechanism

Patent for a new Speed-Regulating Mechanism. The improved device will automatically control engine speed.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to that type of plows in which a double share is employed, one of which turns the sod or furrow in one direction and the other in the opposite direction, said plow being capable of being brought alternately into action, each to turn a furrow in the same direction in right or left turn plowing. . . . whereby the duplex plows may be alternately raised and lowered, and held in either the non-acting or operative positions. . . . and simple means for locking the plows in position for operation and for operating the locking devices" (lines 8-24).
Date: September 17, 1889
Creator: Leas, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sapping or Destroying Trenches or Other Defensive Works. (open access)

Method of Sapping or Destroying Trenches or Other Defensive Works.

Patent for a method of sapping or destroying trenches or other defensive works to use in military operations.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Syringe (open access)

Syringe

Patent for a syringe for containing water used for bathing and fountains. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Rhone, George Mobley
System: The Portal to Texas History