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Car-Coupling
Patent for an innovation in the combination and arrangement of parts for car-couplers including illustrations.
Date:
August 7, 1900
Creator:
Hawkins, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack And Support Therefor
Patent for a cotton picker's sack and support therefor. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Clark, Isom J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check Controlled Apparatus
Patent for a check controlled apparatus. This invention "is to provide a check controlled apparatus for a receptacle arranged to fasten the lid of the receptacle and including a key supported to be released by the key" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Wilson, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Goebel, Alois
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooler
Patent for a cooler. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 12, 1909
Creator:
King, Susan M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Cover.
Patent for improving of the churn's mechanical process by means of the construction of churn covers which prevent the liquid from splashing out the churn.
Date:
October 6, 1903
Creator:
Poole, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for cooling milk, meat, vegetables, &c.
Patent for an early fridge, a device that will cool meat, milk and vegetables. It comprises a container of ice cold water, and a place to store the foodstuffs in.
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Smart, J. W. & Cheatham, T. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved, durable, and efficient car couple that can be operated from one side of the car for the safety of the operator. The draw-head is newly designed.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that has a frame supporting the churn and swinging motion mixes the cream. This invention successfully separates oily globules from the cream, thus making churning more effective and easy.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Bailey, James Westey & McNorton, John Tomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle meant for use with harnesses and "wherein the ordinary movable and hinged tongue is dispensed with, and a rigid stud or pointed projection is used in reversed positions at opposite ends of connecting loops" (lines 9-13).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Odom, Plesant W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Smart, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that automatically couples cars so people do not need to go between cars. This invention is meant to "provide an improved car coupler of the above character, which shall be simple and economical in construction and efficient in operation" (lines 21-24).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Lawhon, David West
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "is to provide certain means whereby the breast and guard can be readily and quickly moved and held out of their normal position for the purpose of clearing or freeing the cotton-roll from the saws, and preventing injury to the operator by said saws" (lines 7-13).
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Rogan, David Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists, "with the beam consisting, essentially, of the forwardly-converging branches at their forward ends and having the downwardly and forwardly curved branches at their rear ends and rack-teeth" (lines 100-104). It further consists "of the feet comprising parallel branches pivotally connected to the ends of the downwardly and forwardly curved branches of the beam branches, the gravitating pawls pivoted between the upper ends of the feet branches and adapted to engage the rack-teeth of the beam branches" (lines 1-8).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Ponton, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COTTON-BLOCKING ATTACHMENT FOR CULTIVATORS
Patent for a new attachment to cultivators that simultaneously "create equidistant hills of plants" (line 25) while cultivating each row, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Wright, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack for Ax-Handles and the Like.
Patent for a "display rack, for holding ax handles and the like on display." (lines 12-14) to prevent them from warping.
Date:
January 13, 1914
Creator:
Wall, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists "[i]n a corn and cotton planter, a hinged hopper provided with a removable partition and an agitator connected at one end to a longitudinal brace on said hopper, in combination with a platform rabbeted, as shown, and formed with slots, disks working in the slots, one of which is provided with pins to operate the agitator and the other disk having pockets" (lines 4-12).
Date:
July 13, 1886
Creator:
McNorton, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire stretcher that is safer to use than other wire stretchers.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Stewart, James Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the side bars having a toothed wheel journaled between them and provided with a crank, a set of cross bars or bolts connecting the two side bars, a pawl hung upon one of the cross-bars and having its toothed end arranged to abut against the teeth of the wheel, and a chain passing over the toothed wheel and underneath the pawl" (lines 67-76).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuning-Hammer.
Patent for improvements in tuning-hammers by using a handle having a central square hole closed at its upper end, a ferrule around its lower end adapted to receive a tool. The tool is a T shaped head having holes in the ends of its cross-bar and the end of its shank adapted to fit into the handle that can be used to tune pianos. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists of "the rotating disk or circular-washboard, faced with radial ribs and operated by a crank which is supported in a plane parallel to the bottom of the box, so that the circular board shall rotate at a right angle thereto; the galvanized-sheet-iron inner box, made with a semi-cylindrical bottom to receive the circular wash-board; and the separate detachable wash-board, provided with a semicircle of radial ribs, and which fits into the sheet-iron box opposite to the circular rotating board" (lines 18-28).
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weight-Motor.
Patent for a weight motor for powering various machinery.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Wilson, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wedges for Spitting Rock &c.
Patent for improvement for a wedge. This design hollows the middle in two areas to make it easier to handle and more economical.
Date:
April 24, 1875
Creator:
Cosbey, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History