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Motormeter-Anchor.
Patent for a new Motormeter-Anchor: a device that will "provide a means whereby a motormeter can be anchored securely to the radiator of an automobile, thus making theft of same impossible, or difficult that it will not be attempted" (lines 8-12).
Date:
September 20, 1921
Creator:
Ashton, William James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "slides over opposite holes in the bottom of its hopper and a dropping-cylinder provided with seed-cups on its periphery and removable screws rising from within the cups, whereby it may be changed . . . so as to plant corn or cotton" (lines 59-65).
Date:
September 20, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Philipp William Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface Cattle Guard.
Patent for a new and improved surface cattle-guard. This design "compris[es] a series of parallel triangular bars tapered at their ends and provided with lateral perforated horizontal flanges, the plates to which said flanges are secured, the cross-tie supports, and the solid plank flooring upon which said ties rest, said flooring being some distance below the guard-bars" (lines 55-62).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve and Valve-Seat.
Patent for a valve and valve seat made of stainless steel for the purpose of preventing rusting and corrosion.
Date:
September 20, 1921
Creator:
Bevelle, Joseph C. & Smith, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Cultivators.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in scrapers for "cultivators-shovels, plows, and like tilling implements" (line 12-13).
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Butler, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for plows whereas a seeder attachment is provided, to allow ordinary one or two horse plows to be readily converted into a planter adapted for planting grains of all kinds.
Date:
September 20, 1919
Creator:
Carlisle, Marion N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harvester
Patent for a harvester. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 20, 1904
Creator:
Claunch, Jeremiah Cyrus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type.
Patent for a new and improved type. This design "relates to printing, and more especially to the type used therein; and the object of the same is to provide a substitute for the large wood type now extensively used on poster and other large work. To this end the invention consists in a type-face and a type-base each of metal" (lines 7-13).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Coleman, Allison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Cutting Machine
Patent for a meat-cutting machine that employs a powered knife and saw combination for the slicing of meat.
Date:
September 20, 1921
Creator:
Creed, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spool and Work Holder.
Patent for a spool and work holder, which is in the shape of a bird and has places to store spools of thread, a pincushion, and a storage place for a piece of work.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Culver, Katherine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design "consists in the provision of adjustable hangers for mattress-supports" (lines 12-13). To this end, it consists, "with the side and end rails having vertical mortises or grooves, the cap-plates covering the upper ends of the grooves or mortises and having threaded apertures, and a mattress-support, of the hangers respectively comprising the vertical shank or body seated in the grooves or mortises of the rails, and the horizontal branch extending inwardly from said shank or body and having a slot to seat the side and end bars" (lines 83-93).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Currey, George Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Form for Building Concrete Structures
Patent for a form for building concrete structures. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Duller, David M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow.
Patent for a new and improved sulky-plow. This design consists, "with the frame of the carriage and the axle of the furrow-wheel, of an inclined perforated portion or device, the washers or collar-like devices arranged on either side of the part and penetrated by the axle of the wheel, and means for clamping together rigidly the combined parts" (lines 70-76).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Soap.
Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for said grease tank and converter" (lines 21-32).
Date:
September 20, 1887
Creator:
Grant, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Spark Arrester and Consumer.
Patent for a new and improved smoke and spark arrester and consumer. This design consists, "in a locomotive having a transversely-divided front extension, of a box over the forward compartment, a deflector at the bottom of the box and upper part of said compartment and having its edges spaced therefrom to permit communication between the two, a stack extending upward from the rear or smoke compartment and discharging through an elbow into the top of said box, a stack leading from the top of box in front of stack and of greater diameter than the latter stack, and the pipes" (lines 24-36).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Hadlock, Edson J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 20, 1904
Creator:
Harper, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design "consists in a wire attached to the anchor or escapement-lever of a clock-work for ringing or sounding an alarm bell, which wire has a hook at its outer end, which is passed into a loop, ring, or hook at the end of a wire connected with the key-bolt or knob-bolt of a lock, or with a wire leading to places a considerable difference from the alarm" (lines 11-18).
Date:
September 20, 1881
Creator:
Holloman, Harvey Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drawers-Supporter.
Patent for a new and useful drawers supporter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
James, Thomas S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date:
September 20, 1904
Creator:
Kirk, Josephus N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fastener
Patent for a wire fastener. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Kramer, William C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Camp-Bed.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding camp beds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Long, Reuben
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a portable crude oil burner that attaches to stoves.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Lubbock, William L. & Hamblen, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bell Collar.
Patent for a new and improved collar. This design "consists in the combination of a flat metallic band, which passes over the top of the neck, two metallic blocks, which extend down opposite sides of the neck and are provided with locks, two perforated slides, which are connected together at their lower ends by a metallic loop . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a bell-collar for animals, and which is not only adjustable in size, so as to be adapted to necks of different sizes, but which, when placed upon an animal's neck, can only be removed by some one who has a key to one or both of the locks" (lines 13-29).
Date:
September 20, 1887
Creator:
Marshburn, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fireplace.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fireplaces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
May, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History