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Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Harrington, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe
Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Wiggins, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material
Patent for a device to remove foreign particles during the processing of cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bennard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for new and valuable improvements on bale-tie buckles for cotton bales. This relates to buckles securing ties on cotton bales and minimize injury to the persons handling the cotton.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
McFarland, Frank Hays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Stone, John Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binder.
Patent for improvements in binders in which it can “securely bind and retain a number of loose leaves, the structure of such binder enabling it to be readily attached to and removed from the packet of leaves.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Montgomery, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door
Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Yoke.
Patent for a new and useful cattle yoke for preventing them from breaking, tearing down, jumping over, or crawling through the openings in fences (line 6 -8).
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Kirk, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack
Patent for Clothes Rack. This helps dry clothes indoors when the weather is bad outside.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Wells, Lillie Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Urn
Patent for a coffee urn. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Peterman, Bert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. This design is especially "for seeding cotton; but the machine is converted into a corn-planter by detaching the bottom of the hopper, removing the space-block, disconnecting the pitman, and then removing the slide, and substituting in lieu thereof a device composed of a bottom, having a seed-opening, and a bridge-form metallic striker, arranged across the same, and a dropper-slide, having dropper holes" (lines 95-2).
Date:
March 22, 1881
Creator:
Evans, William V. & Moore, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Saw Buck and Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved saw-buck and drag-saw. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the saw-buck having cross-piece, the swinging arm pivoted to and laterally movable on said cross-piece, the upper-end of said arm being provided with a slot, the saw, the saw-carriers . . . having spindles, the forward-carrier being provided with a tenon, and the saw-frame pivotally mounted on the spindles of the saw-carriers" (lines 74-82).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Nitsche, John Emil & Kowalewsky, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a durable cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Porter, Harrison B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator designed to "regulate the pitch at which the sweep blades enter the ground" (lines 13-15). Illustrations included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Hewitt, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Deep Well Pump.
Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Clark, Alexander Evans
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Exterminating Insects on Plants.
Patent for improvements in insects control device on plants in which it allows “convenient and practicality to apply smoke and fumes to the plants at any stage of growth, whereby any insect which may prey upon the plant or its fruits may be effectually exterminated.” (Lines 13-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Cottle, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Cabinet
Patent for a display cabinet. Illustrations are included.
Date:
March 22, 1911
Creator:
Douglass, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Circuit -Closing Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in electric circuit closing devices.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Newman, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Water Heating and Purifying Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in feed-water heating and purifying apparatus by “utilizing the heat of exhaust-steam from locomotive-cylinders, and the waste heat from the products of combustion in the combustion-chamber; or smoke-arch for heating and purifying the feed-water in transit to the locomotive-boiler.” (Lines 11-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1892
Creator:
McCallum, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fur-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved fur stretcher capable of properly stretching the ends of the skin. Construction is simple which allows for easy application.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Aylor, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game-Counter
Patent for an apparatus designed to maintain a record of points earned and the number of rounds played in a game. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
McKinney, Ansel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Crematory
Patent for a garbage crematory which burns garbage by igniting the garbage without the use of other fuel.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Thompson, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for an improvement of a mechanical operated gate. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Burkhardt, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Conveyers for Harvesters.
Patent for the combination of parts in gear-shifting mechanisms in harvesters and binders, making construction cheaper and simpler. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1891
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History