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Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for improvements in the specifics of the design and construction of a baling press.
Date: August 20, 1901
Creator: Chapman, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Curing and Coloring Meat (open access)

Compound for Curing and Coloring Meat

Patent for a compound to cure, preserve, and color meats, including ingredients and dosage.
Date: August 20, 1907
Creator: Gains, Edward P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Automatically Applying Germicides (open access)

Apparatus for Automatically Applying Germicides

Patent for "a means for automatically applying an insecticide or germicide which will either kill or drive off the parasite, vermin, and other troublesome germ" (lines 16-19).
Date: August 20, 1901
Creator: Pendleton, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights (open access)

Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights

Patent for a combined socket and switch for electric lights that allows different bulbs of a chandelier to be turned on separately.
Date: August 20, 1912
Creator: Bailey, Douglas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c. (open access)

Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c.

Patent for "a combination-tool seeking to provide a single implement so constructed and inscribed as to be useful to architects, draftsmen, millwrights, machinists, and all metal and wood workers, and which shall be light and convenient to carry and may be quickly adjusted to its different positions for use" (lines 8-14).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Meek, Alphonso Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canal or Ditch Digging Machine. (open access)

Canal or Ditch Digging Machine.

Patent for a canal or ditch digging machine that has a carriage and a mechanism that draws the carriage across the ground, and a boring-tool beneath the carriage. The boring-tool can bore at an adjustable angle.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Hoefs, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot. (open access)

Coffee-Pot.

Patent for "improvements in coffee-pots, and has for its object the provision of an improved coffee-grounds holder, together with a device of improved form for spraying the water thereover, the latter device operating in conjunction with a condenser; and a further object is to provide the pot with an adjustable handle." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Cummings, James K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Linter (open access)

Cotton Seed Linter

Patent for the improvement of cotton lint linter parts and construction. Improvements to the parts remove cotton seed lint before entering the lint conveying flue.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Henry, Nelson B. & Henry, N.B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow and Pulverizer. (open access)

Combination Plow and Pulverizer.

Patent for a combination plow and pulverizer, designed for the purpose of improved plowing and sowing of seed, with illustrations and explanations.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Curtis, W. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Flour and Process of Making the Same. (open access)

Cotton-Seed Flour and Process of Making the Same.

Patent for cotton-seed flour and the process for producing it, including removal of the oils and hulls.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Baumgarten, Gustav Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer. (open access)

Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer.

Patent for a tool used for shaving or hair trimming. This device has a reversible plate carrying a guard and comb teeth. The plate being reversible to permit the guard to be used in connection with a blade for shaving and to permit the teeth to be used in connection with a blade for hair trimming.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Brasier, William Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner (open access)

Burner

Patent for a "simple and relatively inexpensive burner" (line 9) for use in the kitchen with kerosene or other oil fuel.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Catron, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reinjection laser oscillator and method (open access)

Reinjection laser oscillator and method

A uv preionized CO/sub 2/ oscillator with integral four-pass amplifier capable of providing 1 to 5 GW laser pulses with pulse widths from 0.1 to 0.5 ns full width at half-maximum (FWHM) is described. The apparatus is operated at any pressure from 1 atm to 10 atm without the necessity of complex high voltage electronics. The reinjection technique employed gives rise to a compact, efficient system that is particularly immune to alignment instabilities with a minimal amount of hardware and complexity.
Date: August 20, 1981
Creator: McLellan, Edward J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for an agricultural appliance that incorporates spring teeth allowing for the easy removal of small vegetable growths by cutting close to and below the surface of the soil.
Date: August 20, 1913
Creator: Owens, James Powell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Vacuum Dehydrator. (open access)

Continuous Vacuum Dehydrator.

Patent for improvements in speed, cheapness, and more efficiency in continuous-vacuum dehydration and filtering for the purpose of extracting valuable ores with water including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Biesel, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Sign (open access)

Advertising-Sign

Patent for large outdoor advertising sign that is inexpensive to illuminate but still catches attention by providing the illusion of movement.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Bur Separator. (open access)

Cotton-Bur Separator.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating burs from cotton lint despite severe weather conditions, illustrations included.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Irwin, Samuel D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating Liquids.

Patent for dehydrating petroleum oil emulsions through liquid seperation.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Seperating Associated Liquids. (open access)

Method of Seperating Associated Liquids.

Patent for a new method of seperating liquids, specifically those "in which particles of one liquid are held, or bound in mechanical suspension in another" (lines 10-12). The inventor provides the specific example of water and crude oil.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Winding Machine (open access)

Wire-Winding Machine

Patent for a wire winding machine for making well screens.
Date: August 20, 1912
Creator: Eastham, Albert Lindsay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener and Splicer (open access)

Wire Tightener and Splicer

Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator Attachment for Wheel-Hubs. (open access)

Lubricator Attachment for Wheel-Hubs.

Patent for lubricator for axles of buggies, wagons, and other vehicles.
Date: August 20, 1901
Creator: Fergusson, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern. (open access)

Lantern.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient lantern meant to be used outside in high winds, and can carry a candle or oil light.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Seys, Cornelius D.
System: The Portal to Texas History