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Bale-Forming Apparatus
Patent for a bale forming apparatus for making round cotton bales.
Date:
September 3, 1907
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Apparatus
Patent for an automatic bale forming apparatus that can be set to make a certain size cotton bale and will stop when it reaches that size and send the finished bale out on a conveyer belt and begin the next one.
Date:
January 21, 1908
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road Building Machine
Patent for a road building machine comprised of multiple mechanisms including a blast furnace, mixing chambers, and chemical tanks.
Date:
December 6, 1921
Creator:
Austin, Stephen F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Core-Operating Device
Patent for bale core operating device which improves the bale core quality around which the bale is formed, including illustrations.
Date:
July 16, 1918
Creator:
Taft, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a machine that can be drawn along a row of cotton to chop the adjacent plants and cultivate the ground under the machine. The device is height adjustable by the operator.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Schwab, Bruno; Schneider, Richard & Hoegenauer, Haver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Securing Device
Patent for a fastening strap that secures baby shoes to baby feet, including illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1920
Creator:
Elliot, Eloise Foster
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silo.
Patent for a feed storage building that allows silage to be discharged from bottom, removing the opportunity for air and spoilage organisms to affect remaining feed when silage is removed. A screw- or auger-like conveying device moves feed downward and eliminates the need for multiple points of door or window access in upper portions of the silo.
Date:
August 13, 1918
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber.
Patent for a shock absorber used on automobiles and others vehicles that provides additional support to a body supporting spring.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Redmond, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Round-Bale Cotton-Press
Patent for a cotton press with a modified core pin that can be automatically removed from cylindrical bales through use of a hydraulic ram before the bale is expelled from the machine. This helps prevent the bales from coming apart (as would often happen when the core pin was removed by hand), and also has the advantage of creating bales with less dense centers, which aids with drying and helps prevent matting.
Date:
March 9, 1920
Creator:
Taft, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Awl
Patent for a sewing awl. Illustration included.
Date:
June 23, 1908
Creator:
Morgan, John W. & Luckenbach, Louis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Platform for Railway-Cars.
Patent for an improvement to safety platforms for freight cars and other railway cars, intended to "protect the lives of trainment and others whose duties demand the rapid passing from car to car of a train while in motion" (lines 12-14).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Holland, John & Wickline, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Lamp-Burner.
Patent for a safety lamp-burner, which extinguishes itself when the lamp is tipped over.
Date:
March 24, 1914
Creator:
Witmond, Christopher B. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Razor-Blade Sharpener.
Patent for a safety razor blade sharpener with an improved arrangement of the metal grinding elements and a novel blade holder that can hold various types of blades and sharpen both sides, including illustrations.
Date:
May 8, 1917
Creator:
Hauser, Peter D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders" (lines 5-6). "My invention relates to sash holders... and the object of my invention is to so change the construction of said patented sash holder as to simplify, cheapen and otherwise improve the same" (lines 13-19).
Date:
December 7, 1915
Creator:
Hart, Joel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Railroad Appliance
Patent for a railroad safety appliance, which "may be readily installed in connection with the air brake system of a train and be automatically operated to bleed the air line and effect the applying of the brakes in the event of displacement of the brake beam and thereby avoid possible displacement of the car."
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Kush, John, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Secondary Battery.
Patent for a type of storage battery that is "simple in construction, light in weight, durable in operation, and not liable to injury or deterioration", and that can be charged easily multiple times, Patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
March 28, 1916
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddletree.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in saddletrees, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1900
Creator:
Loeloff, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for a rotary engine that uses steam as a motive agent. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Allan, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Aeroplane
Patent for a safety aeroplane including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1914
Creator:
Haynes, Thomas Stanley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for "a light-running high-speed rotary engine which does not have any dead-center and to avoid back pressure from the exhaust" (lines 15-17).
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Schleicher, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ruling Machine
Patent for a ruling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Crozier, Harry C. & Clegg, Luther B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Lace Fastener.
Patent for a barbed metal clasp designed to hold a shoelace knot together.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Kroeninger, Augusta E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Compressing Pump.
Patent for a gas-compressing pump used in refrigeration and ice making. "The object of [the] invention is to reduce the height of a vertical machine, to facilitate access to the parts and relieve the foundation of strains; to reduce to a minimum the angularity of the connecting rod during the latter part of the stroke, and to improve various details of construction" (lines 19-25).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Farnsworth, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History