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Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.
Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Smitham, Nicholas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center Foot for Cultivators
Patent for "an improved center foot or standard which is adapted to be readily attached to and detached from a beam or beams of a cultivator adjusted thereon and adapted for the attachment of a shovel, plow, or sweep of any kind required" (lines 8-15).
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Greathouse, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
Date:
September 11, 1906
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton Berry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp
Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Martin, Delia
System:
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Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Orden, Charles Van
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Compound
Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
Maule, John Quincey
System:
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Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Robert W. J.; Anderson, John C. & Rowe, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie Buckle
Patent for bale tie buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
April 25, 1905
Creator:
Jenkins, John C. & Flowers, W. H.
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:
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Automatic Electric Switch
Patent for an automatic electric switch. This invention consists of a series of switches and a rotary switch run by electromagnetic key operating motor. Illustration included.
Date:
December 15, 1903
Creator:
Guthrie, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton
Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Kelly, Hiram H.
System:
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Aerodrome
Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Snow, Guy
System:
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Animal-Poke
Patent for an animal poke that is worn on the head of the animal to prevent it from breaking or going underneath wire fences.
Date:
May 21, 1907
Creator:
Carter, Joel F.
System:
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Automatic Electric Switch
Patent for an automatic electric switch. Illustration included.
Date:
October 10, 1905
Creator:
Guthrie, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auger-Bit
Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Harris, Lawrence P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Apparatus.
Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Steen, Mary L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Wilkinson, John Marion
System:
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Baling-Press.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses." (line 6-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Abbot, Thomas & Abbot, Harry B.
System:
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Coin Controlled Vending Machine
Patent for coin controlled vending machine. Illustration included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Fender, John Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car for Pneumatic Railways.
Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Rush, Cicero Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Back and Legs.
Patent for a new and improved back and leg brace. This design consists in "the combination of the belt, the straps secured to the belt, [other] straps secured to the [same] belt and extending downward V-shaped, the links at the lower ends of the straps, the [other] strap, the pads attached to the lower ends of the straps, and the necessary buckles to secure and adjust the device to the body of the wearer" (lines 54-62).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Smith, Joseph Henry
System:
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Baling-Press
Patent for improvements in construction of cotton baling-presses.
Date:
August 29, 1882
Creator:
Robburts, George W.
System:
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Caster.
Patent for a new and improved caster. This design consists in "the combination of a caster having an elongated stem provided with upper and lower annular supporting-shoulders, a poison-receptacle having a central opening in its bottom to receive the stem and provided with a central vertical tube having a top provided with an opening receiving the stem, said receptacle being supported by the lower shoulder, and a concavo-convex shield supported by the upper shoulder and arranged over the mouth of the receptacle and provided with a filling-orifice and having a pivoted cover" (lines 82-93).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Gordon, William
System:
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