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Reproducing Device for Graphophones. (open access)

Reproducing Device for Graphophones.

Patent for a reproducing device for graphophones improving the objects that transmit sound to the horn or like element and provide a new means to mount the tone arm. It further improves the means for mounting the needle on the device.
Date: April 22, 1919
Creator: Adams, Henry Rolland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drain-Valve for Well-Pipes. (open access)

Drain-Valve for Well-Pipes.

Patent for drain valves used with well pipes that is "adapted to be positioned in the stand pipe of a well below the surface of the ground, and which may be actuated in cold weather so as to permit of the water in the pipe being drained back into the well" (lines 13-18) including illustration.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Lindsey, William Noal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Hanger. (open access)

Garment-Hanger.

Patent for a garment-hanger that is adjustable which enables it to be used for garments of various sizes, including illustrations. The device enables an entire suit to be supported and prevents wrinkles. This garment-hanger can also be utilized to crease clothing such as trousers, coats, etc. in the proper locations.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: McAlister, Ramey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission Mechanism. (open access)

Transmission Mechanism.

Patent for an improved transmission mechanism for changing speed of tractors and other machines, with illustrations. The improvement is in the arrangement and assembly of the component parts to improve efficiency and to provide several different forward speeds as well as a reverse speed.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Ingram, Joseph D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a wheel for vehicles that has springs within the rim which compress when placed under a load or jolted.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Ingram, Joseph D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Receptacle. (open access)

Folding Receptacle.

Patent for a folding receptacle that has a smooth inside and is stronger than other folding containers.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Thompson, Robert J. & Snodgrass, Eliga C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post-Card Stand. (open access)

Post-Card Stand.

Patent for a post card stand, which turns by a crank mechanism to show all the postcards on the rack.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Bishop, Marvin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Mechanism (open access)

Variable Speed Mechanism

Patent for a variable speed mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Doebbeling, Almond J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for improvement in cultivator attachments by using “a pair of cutting blades or knives adapted to be adjustably connected to the lister-beam after the plow-blades have been removed and after the planting of the field, and these knives are adapted to straddle the center row and to work down to three inches under the surface of the ground, extending half-way to the adjoining row on both sides of said center row, thus absolutely killing all grass, weeds or the like, and turning up just enough dirt to cover the scrub. By thus treating each row in succession a field may be cleared more quickly, more easily, and more thoroughly.” (Lines 15-27) Illustration is included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Pope, Henry O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard Rail (open access)

Guard Rail

Patent for a guard rail. Illustration included.
Date: September 25, 1906
Creator: Hibbets, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch (open access)

Switch

Patent for a switch. "This invention obviates likelihood of derailment by splitting the switches, so as to thereby secure a means for preventing the rolling stock from being thrown from the tracks." Illustration included.
Date: August 22, 1905
Creator: Hibbets, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Stanchion (open access)

Cattle Stanchion

Patent for a cheap and simply constructed cattle stanchions. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Reck, Emile & Reck, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sod-Turning Plow (open access)

Sod-Turning Plow

Patent for a plow to turn prairie sod. On the land side the pow has a longer runner which are attached by a cross bar.
Date: May 12, 1902
Creator: Fletcher, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Grinder (open access)

Corn-Grinder

Patent for a grinder of ordinary corn
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Zimmerman, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke. (open access)

Animal-Poke.

Patent for an animal-poke that is "placed over the animal's neck and provided with spurs, whereby the animal is pricked when he attempts to pass a fence or other barrier" (lines 9-12). This invention doesn't prick the animal while it is grazing and is more comfortable to wear than similar animal-pokes.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Dickey, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Stamp. (open access)

Hand-Stamp.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, simple, and durable hand stamp that uses the minimum number of parts.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Dysart, Marby P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel (open access)

Wind-Wheel

Patent for a new and novel design for a wind wheel.
Date: August 12, 1890
Creator: Gatlin, Lilburn M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sod Cutter. (open access)

Sod Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved sod-cutter. This design consists, "with a sod-cutter comprising the frame, the horizontal blade, the beam, the handle-bars, and the brace-rod connecting the said beam with the outer handle-bar . . . of the upwardly and outwardly curved guide-rods secured to the rear of the said blades, the curved cutting-blades secured to said rods for dividing the cut sod into separate portions, and the fender provided with a forwardly-bent flange at its upper edge and secured to the said brace-rod diagonally of the machine and behind and above the said blades" (lines 76-88).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: White, Maston Timothy
System: The Portal to Texas History