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Bat-Making Machine. (open access)

Bat-Making Machine.

Patent for a cotton bat making machine which allows the cotton lint to be positioned better on the press and the outer bag material covering the cotton lint to be attached together quickly. Illustration is included.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for "an improved apparatus for generating acetylene gas" (lines 12-13). The apparatus includes a carbid receptacle with a conical bottom and a cylindrical valve for better control of the carbid, as well as a gas tank with a gasometer-bell which operates the system.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Lay, Claud
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for invention of certain new and useful improvements in plows with accompanying drawings. An improved plow in which revolving mold board is driven without the intervention of a universal joint [5-30]
Date: January 3, 1893
Creator: Kirk, John, P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gunpowder Canister. (open access)

Gunpowder Canister.

Patent for a new and improved canister. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable supporting cone-shaped frame provided with a supporting flange at its top and an opening through one side, with the can or case for holding the powder, and which is also provided with a supporting-flange near its lower end, a suitable cover, and a spring-actuated perforated slide . . . to provide a case for holding gunpowder, and from which the powder can be drawn into a suitable measuring-receptacle without the trouble of having to weigh it or having to expose it . . . where it is liable to catch fire" (lines 14-28).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Stopple, John J. & Harigel, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hammock (open access)

Hammock

Patent for a hammock for jails and ships. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Palm, Jay Dee & Palm, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel (open access)

Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel

Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Haferkamp, August
System: The Portal to Texas History