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Country
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Month
Day
Baling Press
Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Peschel, Otto J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts faster and more accurately than other models and sends the waste cotton and weeds to one side.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Winkler, Christoph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a hay baling press that uses less compressions per bale to lengthen the life of the press and speed up the process, requires less workers to attend to it, and is a more powerful baler than previous models. It also could be operated by horses or by a gas-motor.
Date:
April 9, 1907
Creator:
Carney, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar Case
Patent for cigar case. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Henry, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Propeller
Patent for a propeller for aircrafts. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Buchanan, Jesey H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Hefley, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lamp
Patent for an automobile lamp that will rotate the direction the tires of the car turn.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Wogenstahl, Leo J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Treating Seeds.
Patent for a new and useful composition of matter to be used for killing weevils in corn, beans, or peas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Thiele, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements to a baling press, making it "simple, inexpensive, durable, and highly-efficient" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Unfried, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher
Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bonnet.
Patent for new and useful improvement sin bonnets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Thornton, Frances E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Pump
Patent for a centrifugal pump. Illustration included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Bettis, William Irvin & Hamilton, Hugh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Bottle-Washer
Patent for "a faucet which can be used merely as a faucet or which can be used for washing bottles, as may be desired" (lines 14-16).
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Horsley, John Shelton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Harris, Irvin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with an attachment for a guided chopper. This cotton chopper allows for the chopping device to engage the soil when the device is driven over various types of soil.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Tedder, Morgan C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator, Plow, &c.
Patent for "a machine having a main frame and a driving-gear with interchangeable planting, cultivating, stalk-cutting, and cotton-chopping mechanism, whereby the machine is adapted to be used for a variet of purposes" (lines 15-20).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
McBride, Abram B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Cathey, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Back and Legs.
Patent for a new and improved back and leg brace. This design consists in "the combination of the belt, the straps secured to the belt, [other] straps secured to the [same] belt and extending downward V-shaped, the links at the lower ends of the straps, the [other] strap, the pads attached to the lower ends of the straps, and the necessary buckles to secure and adjust the device to the body of the wearer" (lines 54-62).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Smith, Joseph Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "improved and simple means for automatically and positively coupling the adjacent ends of railway-cars together" (lines 25-27).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Campbell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Roofing And Paving.
Patent for a process "to produce a compound which is strong, tenacious, and pliable, which will not be affected by climatic changes, and which will resist the corrosive action of acids and alkalies; and to this end my invention consists in a compound composed of asphaltum, pine-tar, and oxide of iron, as will more fully hereinafter appear.” (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater, &c.
Patent for an improved way of constructing piers, jetties, breakwaters, and similar structures. "It can be constructed from boats, barges, or from a trestle, or can be built continuously from a starting-point on shore to the objective point in the lake, bay, gulf, or other body of water" (lines 17-21). This invention is especially useful for places that don't have banks or ledges.
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Shannon, Alexander M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs
Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Stukes, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and effective car coupling that is partially automatic, "and in case of accident or breakage the said device is adapted to be used after the manner of an ordinary car-coupling" (lines 17-19).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Felton, Tommas Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Barrel Truck and Support.
Patent for "a combination of devices for hoisting and hauling and supporting barrels and other receptacles for use in stores and other places" (lines 8-11).
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Hoff, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History