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Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Gesche, Eugene C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel.
Patent for the improvement of spring wheels. It is to prevent the movement of a car's rim or hub when sharp turns are being made.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Livings, James Arthur
System:
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Roller-Distributer.
Patent for a new and useful roller-distributer of the sort used on a light and relatively inexpensive automobile of widely known construction.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Lopez, Jesus M.
System:
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Clamp
Patent for a clamp. This device is employed to use a hoisting line attached to well casing or tubing. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Athey, Earl
System:
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Cigar-Cutter and Match-Safe.
Patent for a match-safe and cigar-cutter “receptacle for holding matches from which only one match can be taken at one time and to means for shifting the matches and at the same time cutting a cigar-tip.” (Lines 7-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
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Stock Feeder
Patent for stock feeder, for automatically feeding grain (or mill food) to stock (particularly hogs) with feeding troughs on opposite sides of oscillating storage hopper.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Dierks, John
System:
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Transmitting Telegraph Relay
Patent for Transmitting Telegraph Relay and it uses.
Date:
September 22, 1913
Creator:
Mains, Thane H.
System:
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Shutter for Motion-Picture Machines.
Patent for a shutter for motion picture cameras to eliminate flickering. Produced by stamping the device from sheet metal.
Date:
August 22, 1922
Creator:
Patureau, Arthur M.
System:
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Combined Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for an adapter to be added to corn and cotton planters to convert them from one to the other while still being fully functional.
Date:
November 22, 1892
Creator:
Knight, Thaddeus W.
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that consists of a hollow drawhead, a knuckle pivoted in the drawhead, a lock that pivots across the drawhead, a catch on one side of the drawhead, a spring presses on the side of the lock, a lever pivoted in the drawhead, a hand rod connected to the arm, a hand rod connected to the drawhead, and a bell crank lever pivoted in the drawhead.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
System:
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Cistern.
Patent for an upright cylindrical cistern made from sheet-metal. This patent "consists in the application to and around the upper open end of the cistern and also if desired at different places around the body of the cistern, of a strengthening ring made of either wrought iron or steel or other suitable metal tubing or piping, to stiffen the cylindrical cistern, said piping or tubing being suitably fastened to the cistern and being arranged around the outside or inside of the same, but preferably around the outside and closely hugging said cistern" (lines 10-20).
Date:
January 22, 1895
Creator:
Schaefer, Henry P.
System:
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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design calls for two u-shaped metal pieces, one narrower than the other, each with eyes at their ends. A metal rod, which doubles as a handle, threads the eyes, connecting the pieces and allowing for the two loops to butterfly; one car can be bound to each of the loops with a metal pin.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
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Combined cotton and corn planter
Patent for new and useful improvement Combined cotton and corn planter to provide at a slight cost a machine which will be simple in its construction
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Loafman, John E.
System:
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Dredge.
Patent for an excavating machine specifically designed for canal digging, that "is an improvement upon a patent granted to Charles S. Butterfield, March 13, 197 and numbered 1,219,371" (lines 10-13). This invention provides a means for firm and stable support of the excavating machine and allows the position of the machine to be easily changed as the work progresses.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Evans, Marvin
System:
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Bookbinding
This is a letter patent for the bookbinding invention as a means for holding books, pamphlets, catalogs, and other similar paper materials together. The purpose of this invention is to make it possible to place additional material inside the same covers, and with the original contents of a book without breaking or tearing the binding.
Date:
June 22, 1911
Creator:
Robinson, Edward K.
System:
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