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Railway-Crossing
Patent for a railway crossing which will not sink in mud and will not be as loud as previously.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Cooper, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for rotary pump designed to counterbalance thrust at each step by a "series of lifting-wheels mounted upon a common shaft" (lines 10-11) in order to minimize wheel thrust.
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Baker, Josheph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pin-Box and Fastener.
Patent for a pin box fastener, which holds the tape inside the box while allowing the pins to be withdrawn.
Date:
September 22, 1908
Creator:
Kimbler, Henry Randolphus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle.
Patent for a non-refillable bottle. The invention "relates to bottles in general, and more particularly to that class known as "non-refillable" bottles, and has for its object to provide a cheap and simple device of this nature that when once emptied cannot be refilled either by floating, by exhausting the air therefrom, or by pouring thereinto" (lines 11-17). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Bogue, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Fender.
Patent for a plow fender, which allows a plow to be operated next to plant rows without injuring them and deflects rocks and other obstacles.
Date:
October 22, 1907
Creator:
Skidmore, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pole or shaft.
Patent for poles and shafts for vehicles with the objective of providing "simple and inexpensive means for dispensing with the singletree ordinarily employed with a pair of shafts or thills in a one-horse vehicle or the usual doubletree in a two-horse vehicle." (Lines 10-15)
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Sharp, Marvin A. & Sharp, Bird H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pessary
Patent for an improved uterine dilator for the application of medicine to the uterus, with illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1902
Creator:
Overton, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Holder.
Patent for a device to secure a pencil within the breast-pocket, including description and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Hogg, George, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furrow-Opener
Patent for a spring-operated furrow opener which creates openings in the soil for the reception of a seed. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 22, 1908
Creator:
Pogue, Steward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine.
Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Dyer, Charles V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 22, 1908
Creator:
Wigley, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows by providing readily-operable means for adjusting the plow-shovel on the standard, to facilitate adjustment of the shovel and of the gage with relation to each other, thereby to vary the cut of the shovel, to improve the means for holding the gage assembled with the standard, and generally to simplify and increase the efficiency of plows of this character. (Lines 14-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Trough
Patent for a feeding trough. This invention is designed to prevent the waste of feed by collecting the feed pushed out during feeding. Illustration included.
Date:
December 22, 1903
Creator:
Butz, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Acting Cylinder-Pump.
Patent for improvements in double-acting cylinder-pumps by making “the cages and check-valves detachable from the piston-cylinder without removing or disturbing either the casing or piston-cylinder and can be replaced in the same manner.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration in included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Arnold, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg Preserving Compound
Patent for a egg preserving compound. This invention consists of an air-excluding coating to prevent deterioration for an indefinite period.
Date:
December 22, 1903
Creator:
Brown, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Exterminating Insects on Plants.
Patent for improvements in insects control device on plants in which it allows “convenient and practicality to apply smoke and fumes to the plants at any stage of growth, whereby any insect which may prey upon the plant or its fruits may be effectually exterminated.” (Lines 13-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Cottle, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for an attachment for a cotton cultivator that comprises of, among other objects, cotton chopper blades. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 22, 1908
Creator:
Patrick, Henry N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a durable cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Porter, Harrison B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hopple
Patent for a cultivator hopple. This invention is for setting the plows of cultivators at suitable distances apart. Illustration included.
Date:
January 22, 1907
Creator:
Reeves, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Herrod, Howard H., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for new and useful improvements in cultivators, relating to an attachment which may be applied to use upon any variety of cultivator with carrying-wheels, which provides efficient means for cutting cotton-stalks or weeds after cotton harvest.
Date:
January 22, 1901
Creator:
Kerr, Robert Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for an improved bailing-press.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History