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Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a wheel-cultivator that attaches to planters or plows. It provides "means whereby a planter or a plow-beam carrying any desired cultivating implement can be attached to the frame of a riding or wheel cultivator frame, and thus enable the cultivator-frame to be applied to uses other than that for which it was intended" (lines 25-30).
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Morris, Thomas R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto-Door Stop (open access)

Auto-Door Stop

Patent for a door stop that is cheap to produce and holds doors firmly.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Hill, Ulysses H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register. (open access)

Autographic Register.

Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-45), and prevents dishonesty in fare-collectors.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Bond, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Out Guard (open access)

Blow-Out Guard

Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Holloman, Alfred A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling "which will afford means to automatically connect cars and release them in a safe manner from the roof or side of a car" (lines 9-11) and to adapt the improved coupling for connection with one of the ordinary type, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for an improvement to churns; this invention provides a churn in which milk is thoroughly agitated via the opposite rotation of two dashers, and will simultaneously allow for observation of the churning operation via a glass vessel.
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Samuel C.M. Anderson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines (open access)

Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines

Patent for a coin controlled feeding apparatus for coin controlled machines. The design is to prevent the use of iron slugs and spurious coins.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Condenser for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for a method of compressing and baling cotton in which cotton is condensed into sheets and is then compressed and delivered to a lapping mechanism which builds up a bale from the compressed sheets, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with two independently operated plows on the front.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Machine.

Patent for a sack laborers drag around the fields with them to store cotton in. It has a shoulder-strap that fits around the sack's mouth. There are two wheels, and a platform is attached to the axle. The sack is strapped to the platform.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Armstrong, Henry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for improving the cultivator-plow by providing "a standard of novel construction comprising a stationary member bolted to the beam and a foot member having a pivotal relation with said stationary member and capable of being adjusted as to its angle, and also capable of yielding backwardly when the shovel meets with an obstruction for the purpose of preventing the fracture or twisting of said standard." (lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Collard, Job Brown & Hensarling, Hiram Johel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator. (open access)

Disk Cultivator.

Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (no. 526,962)for a disk cultivator. The improvement is that "the disks are supported at any point on the under side of the disk-frame and in means whereby the disk-supporting frame may be elevated from the ground" (lines 16-19).
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Brock, Andrew L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw. (open access)

Drag Saw.

Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consist[s] of a standard, two beams connected to the standard on opposite sides thereof, a crank-shaft held by the standard, suitable drive-gearing for operating the same, a pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the saw, a pendulum attached to the saw and the pitman at one end and to a sliding head-block at the other end, the head-block sliding in the slotted standards and having a rack-bar extended therefrom, a pawl engaging the rack, the operating-cord attached to the head-block and passing over a guide-pulley on the slotted standards" (lines 4-16).
Date: November 3, 1885
Creator: Boston, Arnet P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder. (open access)

Extension-Ladder.

Patent for improvements in extension ladder by using two sliding ladder sections, "these two sections can be secured by a windlass and a hook detachably bolted to the upper rung of the upper section." (Lines 38-40, p.3) Illustration is included.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Family Record Keeper (open access)

Family Record Keeper

Patent for a family record keeper that could preserve certificates of birth, marriage, and death, in a manner that would protect them from the elements.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Flanagan, Roland A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post. (open access)

Fence-Post.

Patent for a fence post with a base that expands when put in the ground to hold it firmly in place.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Cherry, Fon T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace. (open access)

Furnace.

Patent for a furnace that is simple, durable and inexpensive to construct. The body is constructed of a rectangular base and the casing is composed of semi-circular plates with a series of flanges that are bolted together with door and flue more easily connected. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Johnson, John H. & Moran, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow or Rake Attachment for Plows and Cultivators. (open access)

Harrow or Rake Attachment for Plows and Cultivators.

Patent for a new and improved harrow and rake attachment for plows and cultivators. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a rake or harrow attachment for plows, of a clamp provided with a curved perforated shoe, and adapted to be secured to the standard of one beam, a rake or harrow secured at one end to said shoe, a bar, means for connecting the same to a second beam, the lower end of said bar being connected to the other end of the rake or harrow" (lines 94-102).
Date: November 3, 1885
Creator: Jarrett, Elisha T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans. (open access)

Improvement in Automatic Fans.

Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date: November 3, 1877
Creator: Boone, John Baxter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an improved bale-hoop tie, consisting of a tongue and slot locking device, which may be used for cotton or other bales, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for the improved design of a bale-hoop tie, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller.

Patent for an invention "to combine and arrange a cultivator, plow, harrow, and roller, with draught-wheels, axle, draught-pole, and an adjustable supporting-frame, in such a manner that the several parts can be used together or independently." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1868
Creator: Thornton, Sterling C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing-Machines.

Patent for a new ironing machine design, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1874
Creator: Perrenet, George Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inkstand. (open access)

Inkstand.

Patent for an inkstand which draws the ink through a stopper (using capillary action) into a font. The stopper prevents "spilling of the ink in the movement or transportation of the inkstand."
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Taber, John C. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History