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Apparatus For Destroying Insects
Patent for an apparatus for destroying boll weevils on cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Jones, Albert Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armored Tread for Pneumatic Tires
Patent for an armored tread pneumatic tires to protect from punctures. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Sims, Bona
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachement for Cultivators.
Patent for an attachment for cultivators. The attachment allows for quick attachment and removal of the machinery.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Gage, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Water-Pipes
Patent for attachment for water pipes to prevent bursting of water pipes due to freezing of water while it passes through the pipes.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Finlay, John K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in buggy tops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 16, 1900
Creator:
Hughes, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that features "a solid block at the back part of the draw-head, which when coupling the cars will come far enough back to hit the solid part in the draw-head and prevent the bent spring from breaking." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 6, 1896
Creator:
Schneider, Adolph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn with a "perforated dasher and a hollow or tubular dasher-shaft, through which the air passes into the churn-cylinder during the process of churning" (lines 14-17). The churn has a foot-rest and a false-bottom, and is meant to improve on simple and inexpensive churns.
Date:
September 22, 1896
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coop Support
Patent for support structure for chicken coops.
Date:
January 9, 1917
Creator:
Clippinger, Levi
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame, the seed-tube secured therein, the box secured around the upper end of the seed-tube and having the upper beveled edge, the hopper having its lower end resting on the said beveled edge, and the straps secured to the hopper and the box" (lines 52-58).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Womack, George Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and rolling fender to be attached to a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Underwood, Elvy T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Railroad Spike.
Design patent for a barbed railroad spike.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Banks, Henry N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car.
Patent for a dumping car in "which contents of the car may be readily discharged" (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extensible Trestle.
Patent for an improvement to extensible trestles for masonry and carpentryscaffolding and other uses, including both instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Bogusch, Robert J.; Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cutter
Patent for a flue cutter with a pair of pivoted arms, which can be detached, and a cutter-head.
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Bogusch, Robert J.; Zincke, August & Bogusch, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furniture Brace
This is a patent for a furniture brace. Illustration included.
Date:
October 24, 1905
Creator:
Nall, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for construction of cheap gates.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Haile, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate latch. This design consists "[i]n a gate-catch, the combination, with the gate and post of a cylinder having perforated lugs and removable heads, a locking-bolt, working in the cylinder and projecting above the plane of the gate, the said rod having a reduced portion or shoulder, a squared portion, and a right-angled locking foot, a spring arranged in the cylinder and secured at one end to the locking-bolt, and a horizontal catch-plate having beveled side edges and perforated lugs for securing the plate to the post" (lines 63-73).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Mathews, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hat and Towel Holder.
Patent for a new and improved hat and towel holder. This design is "compris[ed of] a base-piece . . . having arms and a cylinder cast in one piece therewith, the arms and cylinder being arranged in a horizontal position near each end of the base-plate, and connected together at their outer ends by the vertical arm, and a plunger provided with the finger-piece having a coiled spring arranged in said cylinder, and adapted to bear against the base-plate to provide a support for the coat or towel" (lines 7-17).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Mathews, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine.
Patent for an internal combustion engine that improves on an explosive engine with two hollow pistons, one of which slides within the other and both are connected to a triple crank shaft, so that they reciprocate simultaneously in opposite directions. The invention improves on the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of the explosive engine.
Date:
October 28, 1913
Creator:
Bogusch, Emil Gustave
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for an improvement in milk-coolers “in which water is drawn by capillary attraction from a receptacle placed above the milk-receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the latter, thus cooling the milk by evaporation.” (Lines 8-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Banks, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nail Receptacle.
Patent for a new and improved nail receptacle. This design consists in "a carrying-frame having a cross-beam provided with a rack, in combination with a swinging receptacle journaled in the frame and having enlarged rear end normally resting against the beam to elevate the discharge end thereof, and a detaining bar or rod pivoted to the under side of and carried by the swinging receptacle, and having a projecting lip adapted to engage the rack and retain the receptacle in its adjusted position" (lines 38-48).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Mathews, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Clamp.
Patent for a pipe clamp for drawing well casings out of wells that can be used on different size pipes and grips harder as resistance increases.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Benedict, George Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for an improved pipe wrench that has "a pair of fixed but reversible jaws, attached to the shank of the wrench on each side thereof, and a movable, hooked jaw pivoted between the heels of the fixed jaws" (lines 15-18).
Date:
May 2, 1893
Creator:
Smith, Jay & Gage, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for improvements of plows and their agricultural implementation.
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Kothmann, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History