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Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales. (open access)

Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.

Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Purifier for Ice-Machines. (open access)

Water-Purifier for Ice-Machines.

Patent for a water purifier for ice machines that removes oil residue from the condensing process.
Date: January 31, 1911
Creator: Schrade, John Jacob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Attachment. (open access)

Lamp Attachment.

Patent for a lamp attachment that will decrease the likelihood of a lamp explosion and allow liquids to be heated over the lamp. The attachment has a top plate which prevents insects or other debris from igniting and falling into the lamp chimney, therefore decreasing the potential for a lamp explosion. The attachment also has a perforated cylinder that rests on top of the lamp chimney and can support a vessel for heating liquids.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Lehmann, Hugo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment (open access)

Type-Writer Attachment

Patent for a type-writer attachment.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: King, William V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Machine. (open access)

Rotary Boring Machine.

Patent for a rotary boring machine, which automatically sends out of the machine mud it digs up and can have the rotary pinion easily removed.
Date: March 31, 1908
Creator: Wiggs, James A., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Explosive-Engine. (open access)

Rotary Explosive-Engine.

Patent for a rotary explosive engine which minimizes the waste of power.
Date: March 31, 1908
Creator: Walker, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastening Device (open access)

Fastening Device

Patent for Fastening Device which relates to "improvements in fastening devices and more particularly to latches and cooperating strikes such as used in fastening gates, etc. One object of my invention is to provide a strike for such latching means which is easily and quickly put in place, which is easily adjustable to different heights of the latching member, which is easily and quickly adjustable to different horizontal positions of the latching member, and which is so constructed that it is firmly but simply held in place in any of its positions" (lines 8-20).
Date: May 31, 1912
Creator: Torian, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History