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Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.
Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved harness attachment. This design utilizes two disks, "one being notched in its thick or heavy edge and the other being notched in its thin or less weighty portion . . . thus effectively closing the space that would otherwise be left at the point of the hook, and preventing the ring . . . from becoming detached" (lines 55-63).
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Baton, Durham D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety Attachment for Air-Brakes
Patent for an automatic safety attachment for air brakes that can be attached to trains and automobiles. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 11, 1911
Creator:
Hamilton, Ernest Hubbard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning.
Patent for a new and improved awning. This design consists in "[t]he awning frame, consisting of the pivoted curved rods, pivoted sectional braces pivotally connected to said rods, and the holding or suspending bars pivoted to said rods and having series of adjusting-apertures engaging pins or studs of said braces" (lines 74-79).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Allen, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bath-Tub.
Patent for "a super bath-tub of that class in which the small portable or foot tub is provided with a removable shield and seat capable of enlarging the size of the tub and of furnishing a rest for the person using the tub." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Lacy, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "car-couplers of the class known as 'link-and-pin' couplers, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the coupling is effected automatically and whereby the coupling-pin is made to actuate the brake-shaft" (lines 14-19).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Acuff, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bed.
Patent for a retractable crib and mattress attached to side of bedstead, folding underneath for storage when not in use. When fully extended, allows crib mattress and bedstead mattress to be in the same plane.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Myers, Daniel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for "a churn dasher to which a rotary movement shall be imparted by the resistance offered by the fluid to the dasher when the latter is given a vertical reciprocating movement in the ordinary manner, the rotary movement being constantly in one direction, irrespective of the direction of the vertical reciprocating movement" (lines 13-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate.
Patent for a collapsible crate for shipping berries.
Date:
October 8, 1907
Creator:
Lewis, Bennett Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colter.
Patent for the instructions on of how to construct a Colter including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
James Zedrick Elder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow
Patent for a combined grubbing, subsoiling, and turning plow. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Toler, Henry Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Basom, Ransford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Attachment.
Patent for a cotton gin attachment that cleans and separates the lint before it reaches the machines condenser.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Scott, Eugene C. & Kelly, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester
Patent for Patent for a cotton harvester machine which can collect rows of cotton crops using a scoop and exhaust fan, while also able to remove boll weevils, and cotton from bolls which are unopened.
Date:
December 20, 1921
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sweep
Patent for cart attachment for cultivating cotton. Made to "scrap and cultivate the earth in close proximity to plants and roll the earth over upon the roots of plants." (17-22)
Date:
February 8, 1916
Creator:
Young, Jacob Clemmons
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate Or Coop
Patent for a crate or coop. This invention is connected at the corners possessing a removable bottom along with a readily detachable cover. Illustration included.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Sperling, Ellsworth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that has an improved method of attaching a harrow to the cultivator.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Kelly, Robert Marvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry Kiln Furnace.
Patent for a new and improved dry-kiln furnace. This design has "a grate at its forward end, a bridge-wall extending upwardly from the lower side at the rear end of the grate, a smoke-outlet in the bottom between the rear end and bridge, and a transverse flue under the furnace, open at each end and dividing the draft at the smoke-outlet, said flue communicating with the interior of the drying-chamber, and having a vertical baffle-plate under the smoke-outlet extending longitudinally along its bottom in each direction from said outlet, arresting the rotary motion of the products of combustion" (lines 24-36).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Ketcham, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Kiln Furnace.
Patent for improvements in dry-kiln furnaces by using “a series of furnaces alternating with a series of heating or radiating drums parallel to and on a plane above the furnace,” (Lines 116-119, p. 2) and valved connected flues. This arrangement allowed the “heat being regulated and so distributed through the kiln as to produce a varying temperature, highest at the end where the lumber is introduced and gradually diminishing toward the opposite end, where it is taken out.” (Lines 21-26) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Ketcham, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Canner.
Patent for a fruit-canning apparatus that holds multiple cans on a perforated tray. The apparatus allows for necessary heating of cans and easy removal from a receptacle.
Date:
March 6, 1906
Creator:
Toler, Henry Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Cooker.
Patent for a fruit cooker for home use that can be heated with wood or coal and has a damper inside to change where the heat is concentrated.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Holbrook, Milo Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Exploded Ordnance
Patent for a gas gun. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 30, 1911
Creator:
Hamilton, Ernest Hubbard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Methvin, Boling J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Allison, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History