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Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.
Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Gray, Charles B. & Teter, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs
Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods.
Patent for a rod sleeve to protect the rod joints from damage or bending. The design also includes rollers to keep the rods centered in the casing to eliminate rubbing.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Oiling Railway-Tracks.
Patent for improvements in mechanism for “applying oil to curves and switches of street railway tracks” (lines 6-7) by using an “oil-tank [that] is arranged in the upper position of the hood or shield over the car-wheel. The valve is in the bottom of the oil-space and may be controlled by a lever arranged to turn or lift in the valve, and under the valve is arranged the oiling-wheel, which runs lightly on the track or face of the car-wheel and applied the oil." (Page 2, lines 69-76) Includes illustration.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Ennis, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Machine
Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Apparatus
Patent for a bale forming apparatus. This invention is designed as an improvement to existing bale-forming apparatus.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Anderson, William E.; Dyer, Frank L. & Workum, Julius F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling-press used for baling cotton "in which the cotton-bat is wound into a cylindrical form without the use of a metal or similar core" (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Killingsworth, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for Baling Press
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Jones, Isaac V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Rack.
Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, facilitates the unrolling of the cloth" (lines 21-32).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Palmer, William Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.
Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
McFarland, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ink, Pen, and Penholder Carrier.
Patent for a combination case for ink, pens, and penholders or pencils. It is "an inkwell and pen-box with tubes parallel with the sides thereof to form a small compact parcel occupying the least possible space" (lines 10-13).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Scougale, Malcolm
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Ball Harvester
Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Monk, R. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Baugh, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Gresham, Louis David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker.
Patent for a new and improved cotton picker. This design has a spring-actuating "mechanism located upon the casing, and a hood for inclosing said mechanism hinged to one of the side walls of the casing and held closed by a fastening device . . . [and] the casing thereof, the endless picker-belt, flanged drums, and the toothed disks contained within said casing . . . and a pulley and belt for winding the spring" (lines 1-12).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Martin, John Tillman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Depurator
Patent for a depurator. "This invention realtes to an improved vacuum apparatus for medicinal purposes" (line 11-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Richards, Lloyd H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Rigging for Railway Cars
Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case Fastener.
Patent for a fastener that is used in "egg-cases and packages of similar character designed for shipping goods and which are required to be returned to the consignor to be again used" (lines 8-11). The top of the case has a plate securing it so that it is "secured by positive means against accidental displacement" (lines 23-24).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Blind Slats.
Patent for a new and improved fastening for blind slats. This design "consists in a device for use with a blind to clamp the slat-rod, and thereby retain the slats more or less open or closed" (lines 7-9).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Evans, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for improvements in fertilizer distributers by using a combination of a hopper, a detachable drill-chute, two shafts with fingers inside the hopper, and an inclined spring-held and adjustable apron attached at the rear end of the hopper. This adjustable apron allows the shafts to operate effectively and efficiently. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Barron, John Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for "a simple and efficient device adapted to feed the fuel as required for the support of combustion and avoid flooding and hence the danger of explosion, and, furthermore, to provide a compact arrangement of parts whereby the device may be arranged in the fire-box of an ordinary stove or range." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Stapp, William A. & Hamilton, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine.
Patent for a new flying machine which uses compact, "artificially produced air currents" (lines 11-12), including illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Tiner, John Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a farm gate, which can be opened from a vehicle and stays open until a second operation is performed to close the gate.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Matthews, Joseph William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates of that class known as 'tilting and folding' gates, and is designed to produce a gate that will automatically lock itself when down and close the passage by means which will not interfere in the least with the operation of the tilting" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Howe, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History