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Apparatus For Straightening AX-Handles
Patent for apparatus for straightening ax-handles. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Sullivan, Stephen Dunkling
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auger.
Patent for a new and improved auger. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a shank provided with a conveying-screw and the cutters at the lower end of the screw, the sides of the cutters being extended beyond a vertical line drawn across the edges of the screw, and a tube or casing enclosing the screw and connected at its lower end with the cutters, said tube being of less diameter than the cutters and arranged within the outer sides thereof" (lines 56-64).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Tevebaugh, Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank Register and Remittance Sheet
Patent for a bank register and remittance sheet. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bobbin Winder for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved bobbin-winder for sewing machines. This design consists in "the combination, with the shaft provided with a screw-threaded aperture at one end and having a groove formed near the other end, and a carrying pulley, of the spindle provided with a threaded extension entering said screw-threaded aperture of the shaft, said spindle having a taper and made of highly tempered metal" (lines 66-73).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Evetts, Thomas Frankling
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Support.
Patent for improvements in book support: "book are held in an upright position on the shelves" (lines 9-10).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Muir, James Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard to prevent animals from going on railroad tracks by installing plates which grate and rock if an animal steps on them to scare the animals away from the tracks.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Herring, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roaster.
Patent for a new and improved "culinary utensil primarily intended for use as a coffee roaster, but also . . . of any article which needs to be stirred while upon the fire" (lines 12-16). This design utilizes a crankshaft to stir the beans (or other foods) as they roast.
Date:
August 23, 1881
Creator:
Walling, Edmund Pendleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cattle-Guard and Halter.
Patent for a combined cattle guard and halter, which prevents cattle from breaking through a fence while allowing them freedom of movement.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Owens, Delona D. & Steele, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter
Patent for "a planter that shall be self-covering and adjustable as to the transverse and longitudinal space between the hills and rows, and which at the same time may be regulated as to the amount of material fed at each throw of the seed-slide, and which will also mark off the adjacent row as the machine advances" (lines 10-16).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Westhoff, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Chopper
Patent for a corn husker and chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph, Sr. & Leek, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper.
Patent for an improvement in the "apparatus for tramping and packing cotton" and "for automatically feeding cotton to a tramper at predetermined intervals." The invention is to be used in a two-story ginhouse alongside a condenser and press box.
Date:
August 23, 1921
Creator:
Hopkins, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Rein-Holder.
Design patent for a rein-holder that has an arched body with an ornate central-crest piece located on the top.
Date:
August 23, 1898
Creator:
Gallaway. Perry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Spoon.
Design patent for a souvenir spoon typical or representative of the state of Texas; "The leading feature of [the] design is a head and bust of Davy Crockett, which forms the outer and wide end of the handle...About the middle of the shank and projecting on each side of the same is the lone star, while on the bowl of the spoon is a representation of the old building known as the 'Alamo'" (lines 14-22).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Hughes, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Diffusion-Block for Subsoil Irrigation.
Patent for a diffusion block for subsoil irrigation, which prevents roots from growing into the pipe that is providing water to the soil.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Ziller, Bessie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Fastener
Patent for a portable door fastener that can be used to lock hotel doors. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Mellott, Judson R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving-Gear for Vehicles.
Patent for a driving gear for cars, which allows various amounts of power to be used in different gears.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm-Gate
Patent for an improved hinge mounting for a gate to swing and to served as a stay or brace connecting a pair of posts supporting the gate. Also, a provision of a novel mounting and operating means for such a gate, including springs for raising the operating levers on the gate used to move the gate.
Date:
August 23, 1921
Creator:
Rawley, Fleming C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gear Shifting Mechanism for Harvesters.
Patent for a new and improved gear-shifting mechanism for harvesters. This design "has reference more especially to a gear-shifting mechanism for a reciprocating conveyer in which a gear is engaged and automatically disengaged as the conveyer nears the end of its stubbleward movement" (lines 10-15). It consists, "with a bar provided with a guide having a slot and a depression in said slot, an antifriction roller on said guide, a block or track having a recess, a movable bearing pivoted to the harvester-frame with one end and extending with its other end to the guide" (lines 106-112).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Bag Holder
Patent for Grain Bag Holder which is a simple device that will enable an operator to hold a bag securely at one side of a chute and which holder will quickly release the bag at the will of the operator.
Date:
August 23, 1921
Creator:
White, Ira B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Loop
Patent for a harness loop for connecting the bands and trace of a harness. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headwear
Patent for headwear. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Brown, Bettie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Sound-Record Tablets.
Patent for a holder for square sound record tablets that are 10 or 12 inches.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Moses, Jacob Bernhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator
Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
Thornton, Sterling C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
McRae, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History