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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Goebel, Alois
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone
Patent for artificial stone.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Gaines, Thomas Kemp
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle meant for use with harnesses and "wherein the ordinary movable and hinged tongue is dispensed with, and a rigid stud or pointed projection is used in reversed positions at opposite ends of connecting loops" (lines 9-13).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Odom, Plesant W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an innovation in the combination and arrangement of parts for car-couplers including illustrations.
Date:
August 7, 1900
Creator:
Hawkins, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved, durable, and efficient car couple that can be operated from one side of the car for the safety of the operator. The draw-head is newly designed.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Smart, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that automatically couples cars so people do not need to go between cars. This invention is meant to "provide an improved car coupler of the above character, which shall be simple and economical in construction and efficient in operation" (lines 21-24).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Lawhon, David West
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check Controlled Apparatus
Patent for a check controlled apparatus. This invention "is to provide a check controlled apparatus for a receptacle arranged to fasten the lid of the receptacle and including a key supported to be released by the key" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Wilson, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that has a frame supporting the churn and swinging motion mixes the cream. This invention successfully separates oily globules from the cream, thus making churning more effective and easy.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Bailey, James Westey & McNorton, John Tomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover.
Patent for improving of the churn's mechanical process by means of the construction of churn covers which prevent the liquid from splashing out the churn.
Date:
October 6, 1903
Creator:
Poole, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooler
Patent for a cooler. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 12, 1909
Creator:
King, Susan M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists "[i]n a corn and cotton planter, a hinged hopper provided with a removable partition and an agitator connected at one end to a longitudinal brace on said hopper, in combination with a platform rabbeted, as shown, and formed with slots, disks working in the slots, one of which is provided with pins to operate the agitator and the other disk having pockets" (lines 4-12).
Date:
July 13, 1886
Creator:
McNorton, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COTTON-BLOCKING ATTACHMENT FOR CULTIVATORS
Patent for a new attachment to cultivators that simultaneously "create equidistant hills of plants" (line 25) while cultivating each row, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Wright, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "is to provide certain means whereby the breast and guard can be readily and quickly moved and held out of their normal position for the purpose of clearing or freeing the cotton-roll from the saws, and preventing injury to the operator by said saws" (lines 7-13).
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Rogan, David Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack And Support Therefor
Patent for a cotton picker's sack and support therefor. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Clark, Isom J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists, "with the beam consisting, essentially, of the forwardly-converging branches at their forward ends and having the downwardly and forwardly curved branches at their rear ends and rack-teeth" (lines 100-104). It further consists "of the feet comprising parallel branches pivotally connected to the ends of the downwardly and forwardly curved branches of the beam branches, the gravitating pawls pivoted between the upper ends of the feet branches and adapted to engage the rack-teeth of the beam branches" (lines 1-8).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Ponton, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for cooling milk, meat, vegetables, &c.
Patent for an early fridge, a device that will cool meat, milk and vegetables. It comprises a container of ice cold water, and a place to store the foodstuffs in.
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Smart, J. W. & Cheatham, T. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack for Ax-Handles and the Like.
Patent for a "display rack, for holding ax handles and the like on display." (lines 12-14) to prevent them from warping.
Date:
January 13, 1914
Creator:
Wall, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine.
Patent for general "improvements in engines, and while one feature of our invention is adapted for use on all styles of engines, the invention in the complete form ...is especially suited for use on locomotive engines designed to exert high tractive power and to attain high speeds" (lines 12-19).
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z. & Barton, Alexander M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Screw for Rock-Drills.
Patent for "drills for the cutting or drilling of stone, and has for its primary object the taking up of wear in the worm-screws upon which such drills are usually mounted." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 3, 1896
Creator:
Keyser, William Almond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filter and Water Purifier.
Patent for a new and improved water filter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a water-pump having upwardly-opening valves, an air-pump having downwardly-opening valves, and two perforated cylinders surrounding the pump-tubes and provided with a packing of filtering material, the water-pump tube opening into the inner cylinder, and the pump-tube passing entirely through both heads of the same" (lines 61-68).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher.
Patent for a horse-detacher "which can be readily applied to any buggy, and one which will be adapted for quick and easy manipulation to effect detachment of the shafts from the buggy." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1897
Creator:
Turner, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Trucks.
Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 9, 1872
Creator:
Onley, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History