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Attachment for Ice-Boxes.
Patent for an attachment for ice-boxes which is "a vessel for the reception of ice and having a surrounding series of compartments for the reception of the matter to be refrigerated" (lines 11-14).
Date:
April 3, 1900
Creator:
Moyes, Aceph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot
Patent for a simplified coffee pot that extracts coffee by using boiling water and the receptacle without changing the structure of the device.
Date:
July 4, 1905
Creator:
Haley, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. Illustration included.
Date:
November 29, 1904
Creator:
Hoskins, William Wharton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for cotton chopper. This invention is on a wheel mounted frame and is adjustable for cutting out sections at desired intervals. Illustration included.
Date:
January 15, 1907
Creator:
Walter, William Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adhesive and Method of Making the Same
Patent for starch used for paper that can act as an adhesive coating. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Dunham, Andrew A. & Dunham, Henry V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design "furnish[es] breakwaters for protecting harbors and roadsteads, and keeping open channels through bars at the entrances of harbors, the mouths of rivers, and in other places, and which shall not be liable to be destroyed by the marine worm" (lines 13-19).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Follett, Alexander Glass
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canal or Ditch Digging Machine.
Patent for a canal or ditch digging machine that has a carriage and a mechanism that draws the carriage across the ground, and a boring-tool beneath the carriage. The boring-tool can bore at an adjustable angle.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Hoefs, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobile Headlights
Patent for an automobile headlight attachment capable of horizontal rotation.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Tripp, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Well-Packer and Setting-Tool.
Patent for a well packer and setting tool for the prevention of intermingling between oil and water in a well when used by itself or with other pipes. The invention allows for the packer to be set using the setting tool which can then be removed once the packer is in place.
Date:
January 6, 1920
Creator:
Abercrombie, Jamie & Dunman, Nesbit M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Sulfur Mining
Patent for "new and useful improvement" for sulfur mining by Mr. Robert Carmichael. This device has particular application for mining in subterranean environments, "by use of pumping a heated fluid down into contact with a sulfur strata" (lines 14-15).
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic-Cut-Off
Patent for an automatic cut-off part for a steam inlet pipe.
Date:
March 1, 1921
Creator:
La Bauve, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Drilling Apparatus dated November 5, 1918
Patent for a rotary drilling apparatus that specifies in wells and mines.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Robert E. Carmichael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core-Discharge Apparatus.
Patent for an Improvement in Core-Discharge Apparatus. It is meant to be used in connection with core drills in well or mine drilling. This improvement is meant to be carried to the surface by an air-lift pump.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Carhichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Fusing Sulfer from Low Grade Ores
Patent for the Apparatus for Fusing Sulfer from Low Grade Ores. This machine makes the extraction of sulfur from ores containing less than 20% sulfur, while also removing the impurities.
Date:
September 16, 1919
Creator:
Austin, Paul P. Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel Support
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Barrel Supports (lines 5-6)."
Date:
April 2, 1918
Creator:
Taylor, Charles E. Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising Liquids from Deep Wells.
Patent for improvements for raising liquids from deep wells. "It has a particular application to the raising of fused sulfur from the well in the liquid state" (lines 14-16).
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Hebert, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ditch-Filling Machine
Patent for a Ditch-Filling Machine, focusing on improved operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The upgraded machine boasts user-friendly features, making it easily operable, while simultaneously reducing production costs in comparison to its predecessor.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
Witt, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool.
Patent for a wire stretching and splicing tool used when repairing barbed wire and other wire fences. It connects the ends of broken wires by bringing them together and twisting them. It has a wire gripping device, an adjustable end that corresponds to the wire gripper, a way to separate the above listed parts and bring them back together again, and a clamping device.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
la Bauve, Odelon Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for an insecticide specifically for insects that burrow into the shucks of corn. "The general object of my invention is to provide a compound capable, when affected by moisture incidental to the sweating of the corn in the crib, of generating a poisonous gas which will permeate the shucks and reach and destroy the insect within the shucks, where it cannot be destroyed by simply sprinkling the corn with a poisonous powder or solution" (lines 17-25).
Date:
September 13, 1892
Creator:
Carter, Joseph John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Oil-Burners
Patent for improvements to oil-burners. The text contains a description of the unique improvements and is accompanied by explanatory illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Harrington, Edward A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "relates to improvements in that class of expanding wheels in which the hub is provided with an inclined abutment, on which the inclined ends of the spokes rest, the said spokes being clamped in position and adjusted on the abutment by clamping collars; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Mecham, George Wate
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Boat.
Patent for an improved life boat that "consists principally of a central closed hull equipped with propelling machinery, and floats extending on the sides of the said hull and rigidly secured thereto, to support the hull in position." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
James, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Piece Box.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in two piece boxes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1899
Creator:
Armstrong, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History