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Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Allen, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Churn and Ice Cream Freezer
Patent for a combined churn and ice cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Jones, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Match Box
Patent for automatic match box. This device is designed to eject matches to a suitable distance. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Hanna, John Griffin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Harris, Irvin F.
System:
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Corn and Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton scraper. This design "is to provide an improved corn and cotton scraper for turning or shovel plows for the cultivation of cotton, corn, and other plants, which is adapted to be attached to the beam of the plow without weakening the same by cutting or boring. The scraper is so arranged as to be adjusted either to the right or left, as desired, and up and down, on a central slotted foot-piece, by means of which the line of draft on the blade of the scraper is at all times the same as that on the beam of the plow" (lines 14-25).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Adams, William Hinyard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning
Patent for an improvement in Awnings, that include interchangeable parts that can be permanent or easily detached pending on the situation. Included are detailed illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Ferrel, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter and Chopper.
Patent for planting and chopping cotton.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Pitts, Lee Paschal
System:
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Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, and effective device whereby the ants are confined to a space within the circle of the trap, speedily captured, and exterminated. It consists in a trap constructed with a circular flanged pit provided with tubes leading therefrom to a central ant-receptacle; also, in the details of construction of the trap" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Barnes, Robert Hanson & Salles, George Camiel
System:
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Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "is to provide a planter which may be used as a cotton-planter or other small-seed planter, the various parts being so arranged that the number of grains planted in a hill may be regulated as desired, while the depth of the furrow may also be regulated in accordance with the requirements of the case" (lines 8-15).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Davis, Joseph Green
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commode.
Patent for an integrated air-venting commode.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel
Patent for a funnel for heavy, slow running liquids, that will prevent any spilling when turned sideways.
Date:
November 9, 1920
Creator:
Isaac J. Kominsky
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop and Adviser for Locomotives.
Patent for an automatic stop and advisor for locomotives.
Date:
November 9, 1918
Creator:
Battaglino, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
McBride, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel-Lighting System.
Patent for a liquid fuel lighting system, which supplies a pilot light to lamps or stoves without using a separate torch to light them.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Burton, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design "has for its object to provide for the escape of the air initially held in the upper bends of the screw, so as to relieve the same of the pneumatic pressure caused thereby in connection with the ascending water, thus causing less resistance to the rotation of the screw, enabling it to be operated by decreased motive power" (lines 11-18).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Campbell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Wilson, Joseph Erwin
System:
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Train Control System
Patent for an improved train control system that will help to stop train movement when approached b another train or vehicle on tracks within a predetermined or dangerous distance. It is intended to cause a signal that will allow the train engineer to both opportunity and warning in time to apply brakes and stop. The design also enhances the utility and efficiency of the train control system.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Smith, S. G.
System:
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Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
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Mechanical Movement
Patent for "an object to provide a chain and sprocket movement with improved means for maintaining the chain in operatively taut condition and relation to the sprocket wheel" (lines 13-17), including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Stine, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Concrete Silos and the Like.
Patent for a mold for concrete silos that improves on efficiency.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Doyle, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy
Patent for a children's toy that, when pulled or jerked, will maintain an upright position.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Fouts, Hiram C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Drake, Simeon N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improving a plow device that is curved and has open grooves.
Date:
September 11, 1875
Creator:
Freeman, Irvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History