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Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator. illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Wyatt, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.
Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Spivey, Lillian Hale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.
Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Fitzgerald, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Cultivators
Patent for an attachment for cultivators. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Burks, Edwin H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Diaphragm Face Plates
Patent for an attachment for diaphragm face plates. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Labadie, Victor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Steps
Patent for rail car steps. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carrier for Game
Patent for new and improved carrier for game. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a very light, simple, durable, economic, and effective device for carrying game adapted to be worn across the shoulder and which is held in place simply by the weight of the load". (lines 8-13). Includes description, instructions, and illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1906
Creator:
Paul, James Mount
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney Holder
Patent for chimney holder. This design is a "means for holding a chimney upon a burner of any kind for the purpose of preventing the accidental tilting of the chimney" (lines 11-13). Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Elkins, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a clothes pounder "which will inclose a body of air and expel the same when it is brought down upon the clothes forcing water through the clothes and filling with water an upper chamber, and which when lifted from the clothes will release a body of water at the top of the pounder and cause water to pass through the clothes" (lines 12-19).
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Beaver, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collyrium.
Patent for a mixture for an eye-water; ingredients, proportions of the ingredients and instructions on how to prepare the mixture are included. No illustration.
Date:
March 7, 1882
Creator:
Templeton, Absalom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rat and Mouse Trap.
Patent for a cheaper and more effective trap that displays live bait but is unreachable to animals. The trap will make it "impossible for animals to escape after they have been captured" (lines 26-28), including illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Bevers, William S., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroads.
Patent for an improved railroad construction that consists of "an all metallic railroad which will not be very expensive, will be so strong that an accident is practically impossible, and which may be very rapidly laid" (lines 11-14).
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Arnold, Eliphalet L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and effective cotton chopper that leaves the plants in bunches that is easily operated and uses a reciprocating motion to rotate the blades and chop the stalks.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Hyde, Frank Sule
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Carlson, Peet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Hart, Granville M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.
Patent for a new, efficient machine, with a double purpose: "to clean hand-picked cotton and better prepare it for the ginning operation" (lines 11-13) and to extract cotton "from unripe and closed bolls" (lines 14-15).
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Blackmon, Enoch J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment designed to aid in the plowing of soil. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Parmer, George W. & Miller, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Pressing Trousers
Patent for a device for pressing trousers. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Smith, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for a draft equalizer for animals pulling farm equipment in fields.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Glover, Milford S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Platform.
Patent for a dumping platform for wagons to drive under and be filled with their load.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Rector, Eldridge L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator
Patent for a new and improved elevator that has “a locking device for securing the jaws of the elevator around the pipe to be lifted” (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Simmons, Wise F. & Levy, Christin W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Brake
Patent for a fluid pressure brake. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Butcher, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel.
Patent for an improved "funnel device which is adapted to be connected to the inlet of a receptacle such as a tank and form therewith an air tight connection provided with a manually operated valve" (lines 18-23).
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Errington, Walter W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History