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Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn, which has reciprocatory gear movement inside that allows the milk or cream to be churned faster with less effort.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Mabry, Henry Woodford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "a double-acting [screw] baling press...capable of exerting pressure from two directions and operated by two independent mechanisms" (lines 15-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Kenner, William Housenton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for an improvement in attachments for cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Leischner, Gotthilf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller for Railway-Track Jacks. (open access)

Roller for Railway-Track Jacks.

Patent for roller for railway track jacks that will lessen the weight of the jack and allow it to be moved easily.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Funk, William R. & Funk, Charley F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Strecher (open access)

Wire Strecher

Patent for wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Longan, John Virgle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Low Down Binder (open access)

Low Down Binder

Patent for low down binder. "This invention relates to new and useful improvements in low down binders; and the object of the invention is to produce an apparatus whereby it will not be necessary to elevate grain, as in common binders, allowing the same to pass down an incline to the packers" (line 14-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle - Axle (open access)

Vehicle - Axle

Patent for a vehicle axle with removable spindle, whereby spindles of different length may be connected to the axle to change the gage of the vehicle--that is, from a narrow - gage vehicle to a wide-gage vehicle, and vice versa - and also permit of the replacement of an old worn spindle by a new one (Matthews, 1902)
Date: March 6, 1902
Creator: Mathews, Arthur R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Handling Apparatus (open access)

Mail-Handling Apparatus

Patent for an improved mail handling apparatus for use in trains that has an automatic mechanism to bridge the auxiliary car and the mail car when the car reaching the end of its track, including illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Kerns, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for a device that can easily expand or retract a tire onto the rim of a wheel. This allows for tires to be easily replaced as well as preventing the tire from slipping off the rim while in use.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Leischner, Gotthilf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Threshing-Mashine (open access)

Threshing-Mashine

Patent for a threshing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Sanders, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Propelling Device for Aerial Ships (open access)

Propelling Device for Aerial Ships

Patent for a propelling device for aerial ships which operates by forcing air through a tube, creating suction and exerting propulsion. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knotter Attachment for Harvester (open access)

Knotter Attachment for Harvester

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Knotter Attachments for Harvester" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1901
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements to plows, "designed to loosen and pulverize the upper surface of the ground without turning the same over and without forming furrows, whereby the plowed ground retains its moisture to a greater extent" (lines 7-12) and to also reduce the draft.
Date: November 9, 1901
Creator: Sanders, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

This is a patent for "new and useful improvements in a combined cultivator and chopper" (lines 5-7). The new improvements include a combination chopper and cultivator that will maneuver on both sides of a row of cotton crop.
Date: September 4, 1897
Creator: Latta, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter (open access)

Feed-Cutter

Patent for a improvement for cutter.
Date: September 11, 1906
Creator: Wolf, Davis L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for "a new and improved rotary engine which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to utilize the motive agent to the fullest advantage, and to permit of convenient and quick reversing whenever desired" (lines 9-15).
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hestand, Hardy & Matthews, Arthur R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Balance. (open access)

Sash-Balance.

Patent for improvements in a combined sash balances and fasteners, using two sashes, a rotatable shaft, a ratchet and a friction-wheel; all these parts work together “to simplify the means whereby one sash is made to balance the other and by which either sash may be adjusted without disturbing the other.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Ingalls, Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing-Rasp (open access)

Horseshoeing-Rasp

Patent for improved horseshoeing rasp, both portable and mechanical, which removes extra hoof after shoe is applied to foot. Invention also provides smoother and trimmer hoof with shoe.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Daggett, John P. & Hestand, Hardy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Caster. (open access)

Spring-Caster.

Patent for spring casters. "The principal object of the invention is to construct a caster in such a manner that an adequate resilient support will be obtained for the bed without the use of a spring mattress of like device" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Smith, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for new and improved planter with illustrations and instructions.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Leischner, G.
System: The Portal to Texas History