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Month
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Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator implement "that is adapted in the event of meeting any impassable obstruction in the soil to turn backward at its lower end and permit the cultivator implement to ride through the action of the draft-power and, with the assistance of the attendant, so as to pass over such immovable obstruction and thereafter perform its intended cultivating function." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Cloud, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator.
Patent for improvement in cotton-elevators by providing means for the air-conduit and the cotton-conduit to communicate with the body of the elevator; and means for the air-conduit to communicate directly to the cotton conduit in order to effectively and uniformly distribute the cotton when fed to the gins. Thus preventing the cotton from being fed unevenly, which would clog and otherwise retard the action of the gins. (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Williams, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Disk
Patent for a cultivator disk. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Harris, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Otenhouse, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press.
Patent for a new and improved cotton press. This design "consists in the combination of a shaft which is journaled upon the top of the press-frame, and provided with a driving-pulley, a clutch which is feathered upon the shaft, and which is operated by a lever which projects in the line of travel of the beater, a drum provided with a ratchet, a spring-pawl, and the brake by which the descent of the beater is controlled" (lines 13-21).
Date:
September 9, 1884
Creator:
Voigt, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Machine
Patent for an agricultural machine that consists of a rotary cutter and a fixed horizontal cutter. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Evans, Lucias S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cover for Syrup-Pitchers
Patent for a cream and syrup dispenser. The cap has a spring so that after use the pitchers orifice will be completely sealed.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Judia, George H. & Huey, B. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for getting a good knowledge on how to use a cultivator, detailed instructions are provided.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Blalock, Justice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Planters.
Patent for attachment for planters that currently employed for planting cotton and corn fields, the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which embodies novel features of construction whereby the runner is mounted and held firmly in position by action of spring, including illustrations.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Raulz, Willie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Device.
Patent for "an apparatus for elevating and distributing cotton from wagons or other receptacles and feeding the same to cotton-gins or storage-bins." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
Moffitt, William E.; Williams, James L. & Bennett, Levi W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper And Cultivator
Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Zoll, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Ledbetter, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner
Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silent Self-Adjusting Push-Rod.
Patent for a self-adjusting push rod intended to reduce engine stress and noise.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Russell, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-lock For Keyholes.
Patent for improvements in safety-locks, which makes it secured against skeleton keys and lock-picking.
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Good, Titus E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running Gear.
Patent for a new and improved running gear. This design consists "[i]n an adjustable axle, the combination of the squarely grooved or axle-tree, having [a] central square block, the spindles having inner square portions, having horizontal slots and vertical slots, vertical nutted bolts and horizontal nutted bolts, [and] having hooks adapted to have the draft-chains attached to them" (lines 74-81).
Date:
January 9, 1883
Creator:
Brosius, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running gear for railway cars.
Patent for improved running gear for street and other railway cars.
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Mackey, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for "a simple and efficient construction of engine including two parallel series of piston-heads and wherein steam will be supplied to the heads of each series alternately" (lines 9-13).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Keith, Jonathan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rotary engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1898
Creator:
Mason, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Car Net
Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Matthews, Harrison C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for "a light-running high-speed rotary engine which does not have any dead-center and to avoid back pressure from the exhaust" (lines 15-17).
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Schleicher, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Furnace.
Patent for a garbage-furnace that relates to a patent that was previously granted to the inventor (No. 448,115). This invention provides "a new and improved garbage furnace, which is comparatively simple and durable in construction, and very effective for burning all kinds of dry and wet garbage, kitchen refuse, animal matter, excrements, &c. (lines 12-16).
Date:
April 9, 1895
Creator:
Brownlee, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History