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Hay-Rack.
Patent for a hay-rack meant to "provide an improved device for holding or clamping hay within reach of livestock, and which while not impairing the feeding of the stock will prevent them from pulling the hay down beneath their feet" (lines 14-19).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Erskine, William James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like
Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
Date:
February 16, 1875
Creator:
Trible, Herndon & Davis, Nicholas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved automatic car-coupling that may be readily uncoupled from the side and top, and be employed to couple cars of different heights." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1875
Creator:
Ford, Oscar E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames
Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 16, 1872
Creator:
Fitzsimmons, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
Patent for "an apparatus for exterminating cotton-worms by ejecting liquid poison upon the cotton-plants" (lines 6-8). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 16, 1873
Creator:
Johnson, Jehu W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.
Date:
October 13, 1873
Creator:
Johnson, Jehu W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hand-Machines for Gathering Cotton in the Field" (lines 3-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 16, 1856
Creator:
Shields, B. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper that has advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency because it is adapted to operate crosswise with relation to the rows.
Date:
September 16, 1902
Creator:
Fay, Louis Percy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new cotton chopper allowing for continuous operation while raising or lowering the device and without requiring additional strain from draft animals during operation, including illustrations.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Hickson, Aaron L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper or Blocker.
Patent for an invention that provides a wheeled carriage, or supporting frame, to support cotton choppers, or similar devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Cunningham, Jasper V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight
Patent for new design for dirigible headlights by Mr. Hall B. Simpson and Mr. Dewitt Hood, designed with the intention of providing "novel and improved means whereby the headlights are supported by the automobile or other vehicle for turning movement about vertical axes," alongside various innovative applications (lines 23-27).
Date:
December 16, 1919
Creator:
Simpson, Hall B. & Hood, Dewitt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Direction-Indicator.
Patent for a new useful improved direction-indication that will allow an operator of an automobile to indicate to traffic in front and rear the direction in which the operator will make it's turn. The indicator will also indicate when a stop is contemplated.
Date:
March 16, 1920
Creator:
Gmelin, Ernst W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar
Patent for improved horse-collars, which supposedly makes the collar less complex and more comfortable. The patent is intended for harnesses for horses, mules, and related animals.
Date:
September 16, 1919
Creator:
Mahone, Edwin W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus that displays objects enclosed in containers and allows them to be retrieved without "changing the position of any other than the [container] to which access is desired" (lines 16-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Boudreaux, Carlos
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion Tire
Patent for Cushion Tires. Each tire will have multiple chambers within it, so if one is punctured the remainder of the tire will continue to function and not deflate.
Date:
March 16, 1920
Creator:
Williams, Henry S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim
Patent for a durable yet inexpensive "demountable rim for vehicle wheels" (lines 12-13), with a sectional design for ease of attachment and removal.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
McPherson, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Mounting
Patent for window mountings that allows the window to open both vertically and horizontally.
Date:
November 16, 1915
Creator:
Bast, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Stroke Pumping Jack
Patent for a double-stroke pumping jack with two pistons in the same cylinder "to discharge a steady stream of water therefrom" (line 12-13). This invention allows the pipe cylinder and pistons to be easily removed for repairs or cleaning.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Winterborne, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushioned Holder for Dating-Stamps
Patent for a cushioned holder for dating stamps. Illustration included.
Date:
April 16, 1907
Creator:
Ensign, Ely
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Screw Swivel Lifting-Jack.
Patent for an improved double screw swivel lifting jack, including illustrations.
Date:
January 16, 1906
Creator:
Morris, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree Attachment
Patent for a doubletree attachments. Illustration included.
Date:
August 16, 1910
Creator:
Ball, William Rossem
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dipper
Patent for dipper. Illustration included.
Date:
May 16, 1905
Creator:
Cowart, Laurance P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Churn-Frame.
Design patent for a churn frame.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
O'Marrow, Mattie
System:
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