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Insect Destroying Machine
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroying Machines,"(lines 6-7) including description and illustrations.
Date:
September 9, 1904
Creator:
Doak, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating System
Patent for a heating system. This invention is to distribute heat vie flues throughout multiple rooms from a common source. Illustration included.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Jones, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating System.
Patent for a heating system using a grate placed in an open fireplace.
Date:
March 30, 1909
Creator:
Jones, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Bell-Ringer
Patent for an electric bell ringer that is "operated either by electric wires from a distance or by merely pressing a push-button" (lines 11-13).
Date:
October 24, 1905
Creator:
Hall, Ira W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Appliance
Patent for a draft attachment to be used with a animal-drawn vehicle to hitch a third horse to the vehicle if need be. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Gaines, Wister F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display Device.
Patent for a display rack adapted for exhibiting various fabrics.
Date:
March 12, 1912
Creator:
Lanford, David L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cuspidor.
Design patent for a cuspidor. The sides of which are nearly perpendicular and the extended base-supporting flange of which is in the form of a rope or cable, while the upper edge is ornamented by milling.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Hart, Samuel Harp
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Displaying Merchandise.
Patent for improvement in devices for displaying merchandise by providing a portable display device comprising a horizontally disposed frame removably secured to and supported upon standards and from which the merchandise is suspended for display. (Lines 17-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 4, 1910
Creator:
Binford, Jackson S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
January 24, 1905
Creator:
Joyce, John Worth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wright, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. This invention consists is a "pneumatic apparatus for conveying cotton when picked from the plant, and comprises a suction-fan and casing therefor, which latter has pipes and through which air is drawn" (lines 15-19). Illustration included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Bennie, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Tie-Press.
Patent for a cotton tie press, which allows the easy removal of the temporary ties on the cotton bales.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Howlett, Payton Leon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Blade
Patent for a cultivator blade. Illustration included.
Date:
November 7, 1905
Creator:
Harlow, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 18, 1900
Creator:
Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Opener.
Patent for "a simple and durable device by means of which the buckles or securing devices on cotton-bale ties or bands may be readily opened and the band removed from the bale without destroying the buckle or the band, so that they may be again used." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Gaskill, Clinton R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churning Device.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the base having uprights forming guides for the vertically-movable rod, of the rod movable in said guides and adapted to be connected with a rod or dasher, the treadle, a link connecting the treadle with said rod, the shaft having a platform adapted to support the churn-body and provided with a crank, and a pitman connecting said crank with the treadle" (lines 72-80).
Date:
June 1, 1886
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for an improved construction design for churn power that "may be readily employed in connection with any ordinary vessel serving as a churn body, and which will effect a rapid production of butter" (lines 12-15).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Taylor, Marion M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c.
Patent for a compound that is meant to remove grease, oil, paint, and similar things from delicate cloth. It is composed of gasoline, chloroform, sulfuric ether, alcohol, spirits of ammonia, powdered borax, powdered carbonate of soda, and saltpeter in lumps.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Ehman, Benedickt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvester.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable corn harvester that "when drawn over a field of corn of cutting the ears of corn from two rows simultaneously, and of depositing the cut corn in a receiver at the rear of the cutters" (lines 11-15).
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Perkins, James Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design "relates particularly to a vertical single-dasher reciprocating churn, and has for its object to provide a churn-power of the character that shall be simple and durable in construction, one that will give a maximum length of stroke, and one that will always keep the dasher elevated when not in operation" (lines 7-14).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the bedstead having bolts at the corners, the hooks at the centers of the end rails, and the hooks at the centers of the side rails, of the two wires on each side having their ends secured to the bolts, engaging the hooks and passing to the side of the bed and engaging the hooks, the rings strung on and embracing the adjoining wires between the hooks . . . so as to cause the wires to be brought together, and the cord or strap connecting the said rings so as to slide the rings upon the wires" (lines 20-31).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
Warfield, Dunbar Griffith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm
Patent for "a very simple and economically-constructed alarm mechanically connected with windows and doors of a house or a room and adapted to be sounded by a raising or opening of the same, and at the same time to strike a light or illuminate the surroundings (lines 10-15).
Date:
October 7, 1890
Creator:
Canterbury, Crawford R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improvement in churn by using a combination of a sliding bar, a cord secured to the dasher-shaft, and vertical rods to create a mechanical movement that would wind and unwind the cord in order to operate the churn. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 3, 1891
Creator:
Crouch, Riley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a burglar-alarms by constructing “an alarm which would adapted and arranged to sound and to be operated at and by the raising of the window or opening of the door, and simultaneous with the sounding of the alarm to produce an illumination.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Canterbury, Crawford R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History