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Aeroplane.
Patent for improving the fuselage for aeroplanes by "securing double strength throughout the body and [...] be light and durable" (lines 12-14). Provides rudder, landing gear, telescopic joint, and sprocket gear improvements, including illustrations.
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Smith, Glen B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Device
Patent for an alarm device that is mounted on a house to warn of approaching wind storms.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Stamps, William P. & Phillips, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. This invention uses a ballast and simulates the appearance and motion of a floating ship under way. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Corneliussen, Ivar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for "Improvements in Attachments for Cotton-Choppers" (lines 5-7) to vary the plane of rotation of the hoe.
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Fultz, Deck B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lifting-Jacks
Patent for an attachment for lifting jacks.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Porter, Horton B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Former
Patent for a cotton bat former for use in cotton gins.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Ball, Samuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle
Patent for device for improvement of speed of bicycle, including illustrations.
Date:
March 28, 1896
Creator:
Schooler, Joseph P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Black-Land Plow.
Patent for a plow that operates in mud or sticky dirt without becoming clogged and has an improved share and mold board.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Vestal, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Feeder
Patent for boiler feeder. This invention is designed as a gravity feed automatic boiler. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Finch, Clark Ethan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.
Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that consists of an upright frame, an adjustable central ring, a dasher rod, and devices for operating the rod.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Martin, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churning-Machine.
Patent for improvements in churning-machines by using a “pair of slotted crank-arms, which having pitman-rods adjustably connected thereto and to the upper portion of the churn-dasher, so that by adjusting the pitman-rods longitudinally of the crank-arms the vertical movement or throw of the dasher may be regulated at will.” (Lines 17-22.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Strickland, Orien S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a simple, metallic, and inexpensive clothes pin that can be used with a rope or wire line. It can be attached easily but will not blow off. It does not rust or tear the clothes.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Crump, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Spice Mill.
Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to be adjustable horizontally to operate on crooked rows. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Burton, George W.; Warwick, Vesper V. & Patton, Deacon O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for useful improvements in cotton-picking machines involving "two drums or endless chains of slats, upon which picker arms are mounted" (lines 9-11).
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner
Patent for a cotton seed cleaner. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk or Cabinet.
Patent for a simple and economical desk that is designed to be completely sealed and protected when it is closed. When the cabinet is opened, "the machine may be operated with as much ease as though the machine were placed upon an ordinary table, and whereby further, when the cabinet is opened, an extensive table will be provided at each side of the machine for the reception of work which is to be performed or which has been executed, or for any purpose that the operator may desire" (lines 20-28).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Rotary Force Pump
Patent for double rotary force pump. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Rotary, Julius R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Friction Transmission Mechanism.
Patent for improvements toward friction transmission mechanisms. It would eliminate the use of some gears.
Date:
March 28, 1921
Creator:
McDermott, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Press.
Patent for a device that extracts and strains "the juice of fruits, and it has for its general object to provide such a device of a cheap, simple, and durable construction, and one adapted when not in use to be disconnected and folded back against the wall so as to occupy but a minimum amount of space" (lines 13-18).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Thompson, Sarah Rosaline
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang Disk Drill.
Patent for a new disk drill, with instructions for use and illustrations. The gang disk drill has a series of disk-shaped cutters along its body, allowing for more rapid, efficient penetration of shale and other types of material.
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Hughes, Howard Robard, 1869-1924
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner
Patent for a gin saw cleaner. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Pillow, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate.
Patent for an improved grate that is adapted "for use in stoves as well as in fire paces, and which, being composed of separate bars, may be repaired by inserting new bars, thus saving that portion of the grate which remains intact, as cannot be done with grates formed of a single casting" (lines 18-23).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Chollar, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History