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Cabinet
Patent for a cabinet which acts as a receptacle for money. Dollars and coins may be sorted using the tray mounted within the cabinet.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Ferris, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear
Patent for
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Bassett, Lawrence Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.
Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Killing Grass
Patent for an improved chemical designed to kill grass, weeds and other undesirable plants. It can sprayed or sprinkled on the plants and within twenty minutes the grass or weeds will start to die even within the roots themselvs.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Hulsey, Charley Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Grinder
Patent for a grinder of ordinary corn
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Zimmerman, Frank W.
System:
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Combined Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine
Patent for "an improvement in combined cotton chopping, planting, and cultivating machines," (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Pilond, David Winfield
System:
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Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator
Patent for a Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator that is used to cultivate cotton, corn and nature like plants.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Evans,Lucius Sandiford
System:
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Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton.
Patent for a machine that puts gins and condensers in a line, which sit over a flue. "The lint cotton in bat form being delivered from all of the condensers in independent bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton increasing in thickness upon the common conveyer and in its travel to a press, compress or other receptacle, receiving the different bats from the different condensers, one bat lying smoothly upon the other, until at the discharge end of the common conveyer, the bat in which the lint is evenly distributed and which is of considerable thickness, will be conveniently discharged" (lines 13-24).
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Zedler, Friedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Fender.
Patent for a simple car-fender that improves on the types of "fenders which are attached to the front end of street and other car trucks for the purpose of saving human life by preventing a body from being thrown under the car wheels" (lines 10-14). The invention does not let a body under the car wheels.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Rau, William J.
System:
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Combined Harrow, Seed-Planter, and Cultivator
Patent for a combined harrow, seed-planter, and cultivator to increase the speed of planting and cultivating plants, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Ellis, Robert Fuller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain Release for Logging Cars.
Patent for new and useful improvements for a chain release for logging cars, including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Dodd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Slack-Take-Up and Cooling Device.
Patent for new and useful improvements to Automatic Slack-Take-Up and Cooling Devices for the manufacturing of flexible roofing and other similar flexible materials, including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Smith, Frederick C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Stretcher
Patent for an improvement in belt stretchers that are cheaper to make and easier to operate.
Date:
May 22, 1920
Creator:
Cherry, Warren L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that allows adjustment to two locked positions with a slot and stud mechanism.
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Bledsoe, Yancy M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring
Patent for a vehicle spring that is elliptical, "whereby the upper section... may move longitudinally independent of the lower section of the spring" (lines 18-21).
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Plank, Samuel K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for "a new windmill design to improve the construction of windmills and to provide a simple, durable, and efficient one" (lines 11-12)
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Benson, Arthur Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicating Device for Vehicle
Patent for a indicating device for vehicles are for providing a device of the character described designed particularly to be attached to automobiles and other similar vehicles.
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Nicholson, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "consists in the combination of the main bar, which is provided with a head having a suitable recess to catch over nuts, with a sliding head, which has two surfaces to act in connection with opposite ends of the head, but out of line with each other, and a spring-actuated catch, which catches in suitable ratchets made in the main bar, so as to hold the sliding head in position" (lines
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Hamrick, Jerome Miller.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index
Patent for "a simple and compact index in which the available space will be utilized as perfectly as possible". (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Hausinger, Henry August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Bed-Hoisting Apparatus
Patent for Wagon-Bed-Hoisting Apparatus which "consists in the provision of a rack adapted to be connected to the bed of the wagon" (lines 17-19); including illustration and instructions
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Southern, Wills
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vehicle-Springs
Patent for a newly designed vehicle spring that attached to the axle and features an auxiliary spring.
Date:
May 22, 1877
Creator:
Faber, Fredrick W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Revolving Conical Mold-Boards
Patent for improvements and new design for a Revolving Conical Mold-Board Plow.
Date:
May 22, 1877
Creator:
Dryer, Charles Valentine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in fences
Patent for improvement in fences. Inventor created removable, adjustable fences with wire loop hinges.
Date:
May 22, 1879
Creator:
Martin, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger
Patent for an improved post-hole digger/auger with multiple blades that cut in a spiral pattern and has the blades adjust and lock on the base. The blade shanks form a cage and keeps dirt from clogging the blades.
Date:
May 22, 1915
Creator:
Hoover, Orville M. & Ardery, Sarah, J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History