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Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.
Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Cochran, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harrows
Patent for attachment of harrows that facilitate the use of harrows in pilling cotton stalks. This device allows the harrows to be in continuous motion creating efficiency in cotton pilling.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Taylor, David T. & Barker, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date:
December 21, 1878
Creator:
Cummins, John Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery-Mud-Extracting Device.
Patent for improvement of Battery-Mud-Extracting Devices where the mud may be removed without disassembling the battery or displacing of the electrode plates.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Irwin, Samuel D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beet-Harvester
Patent for removal of beets from ground and transfer to carrying device.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Mathison, Andrew Alois.
System:
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Bridle Bit.
Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Allen, John Hudson
System:
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Button.
Patent for a new and improved button. This design consists "[i]n a detachable button, the combination, with the hollow threaded shank of the button-head, having end serrations, and the base-disk, having a central screw, of the loose clamp-disk, applied on the screw, and having a spring-pawl or projection to engage the serrations of the shank" (lines 70-76).
Date:
March 11, 1884
Creator:
Matthews, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost
Patent for an improved chicken roost.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Conner, Joshua H.
System:
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Churn
Patent for a churn. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Brown, Herbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for improvement on clothing pin by using a single wire.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Neal, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Roofs.
Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, durable, and effect ive in operation, and which may be easily manipulated" (lines 11-14).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Porter, William Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved conveyer and cleaner of cotton. This design consists, "with the cotton pneumatic tube and the fan for producing an air-current therein, of the branch-tubes connecting the segments of the tube first named, the cotton-arresting screens, the enlarged mouth upon the tube-segment opposite the fan, the rotating cylinder mounted between said branches, the wings thereon completely filling, with the cylinder, the upper portion of the mouth and sweeping over the faces of the screens, the flexible valve, and the spring-actuated gate closing that part of the mouth" (lines 14-25).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate-Clamping Machine.
Patent for "improvement in crate clamping machines" (line 10), holding end boards and partition of crates to enable crate assembly.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
C. T. Dickson; Dickson, C. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Cup.
Patent for a collapsible holder for paper drinking cups.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Fermier, Victor Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Easel
Patent for an adjustable easel.
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Mueller, Carl P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Brush.
Patent for a fountain brush which allows for the attachment of a wiping cloth, and featuring a spring handle.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Shanley, Michael Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigating Apparatus for Exterminating Insects.
Patent for ant extermination device. Injects gas into the entrance of (primarily) ant or insect nests.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Mueller, Onno
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furniture
Patent for easy assembly and disassembly of cabinet furniture.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Giordano, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press.
Patent for improving baling presses by reconstructing the press to make it more efficient and simple. Also, this improvement allows the plunger to automatically return after the press stroke is finished.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
White, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hinge-Gainer.
Patent for a hinge-gainer related to "certain improvements in devices of that class employed for cutting a gain or mortise in a door-jam or door for the reception of a hinge. The object of the invention is to provide an improved machine or tool in which all the parts may be readily and accurately adjusted to cut recesses of different width, height, and depth" (Lines 8-16).
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Ward, Richard Bryant.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hog-Trough
Patent for a feeding trough for pig sties. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Wilkinson, Duke A. & Austin, Ben A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing-Rasp
Patent for improved horseshoeing rasp, both portable and mechanical, which removes extra hoof after shoe is applied to foot. Invention also provides smoother and trimmer hoof with shoe.
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Daggett, John P. & Hestand, Hardy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal Box
Patent for an improved journal box design intended to reduce the risk of oil leaking from a locomotive's axle.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Davis, L. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History