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Telegraph-Key.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in telegraph keys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 4, 1898
Creator:
Lewis, Frank E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
This is a patent for "new and useful improvements in a combined cultivator and chopper" (lines 5-7). The new improvements include a combination chopper and cultivator that will maneuver on both sides of a row of cotton crop.
Date:
September 4, 1897
Creator:
Latta, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer.
Patent for a simple and efficient cotton separator and distributor that elevates and moves cotton from a wagon into a gin. It has supply and suction pipes, an air-tight cotton distributing box with an opening on one side and a gravity drop door on the other, a mechanism that moves the box in and out of the line of suction of the pipes, and a group of circular distributing boxes that rotate between the pipes.
Date:
September 4, 1894
Creator:
Paine, Herbert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Register for Odometers.
Patent for improvements in odometers for harvesting machines. The harvester can then calculate the amount to charge for harvesting.
Date:
September 4, 1894
Creator:
Shields, Augustus O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Stand.
Patent for a switch-stand for railroads with a vertically movable crank bar that is easily locked into position and a cam lever. The invention is operated more easily than other switch-stands.
Date:
September 4, 1894
Creator:
Driever, Benjiman F. & Mixon, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Splicer.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire stretcher and splicer that can easily connect to a post and use it as an anchor while stretching wire. The invention also draws wires together and re-connects them. A crank makes the device easy to use.
Date:
September 4, 1894
Creator:
Marshall, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Rest.
Patent for a new and improved hand rest. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the standard, the lever supported thereby and provided with a guide wire or rail, and the hand support comprising a roller mounted on said rail, an elastic strap depending from the roller, and a finger-receiver secured to the lower end of the strap" (lines 62-68).
Date:
September 4, 1888
Creator:
Brown, Martin Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in plows, having for its object the provision of simple and highly-efficient means for adjusting the position of the outer drag-bars and shovels and for regulating the depth of penetration of the central shovel" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 4, 1888
Creator:
Foster, Joseph H. & Kimbro, Jeremiah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
Date:
September 4, 1877
Creator:
Harding, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of seed-planters using a rotary system to distribute seeds from a drum and into the soil, including illustration.
Date:
September 4, 1860
Creator:
Park, A. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History