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Combined Clock Speed Regulator And Recorder (open access)

Combined Clock Speed Regulator And Recorder

Patent for a combined clock-speed regulator and recorder. This object is used for recording and measuring speed in a vehicle.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Cook, Charles T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop. (open access)

Envelop.

Patent for "simple envelop which can be cheaply manufactured and which cannot be fraudulently tampered with or opened for the purpose of removing its contents without mutilating or injuring the envelop to an extent which would be noticable" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: April 3, 1917
Creator: Moore, Essie H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Feeding Apparatus (open access)

Stock Feeding Apparatus

Patent for clock controlled aparatus for feeding domestic livestock.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Bass, Fredie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for an improved rail joint with the ends of the joints fitting together in a more snug, efficient fashion.
Date: April 15, 1916
Creator: Ellis, Orvel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hub Ball-Bearing. (open access)

Hub Ball-Bearing.

Patent for a bearing to be employed in a wheel and axle system. The patented bearing is meant to reduce the usual amount of friction in the system to a minimum.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Price, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tripod. (open access)

Tripod.

Patent for a tripod, which when folded up can be used as a walking stick.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Boyd, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Vickers, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. This invention is designed to destroy boll weevils by using blowers and agitators that send the boll weevils to receptacles filled with liquid. Illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1908
Creator: Vickers, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree (open access)

Whiffletree

Patent for a whiffletree, a type of doubletree, which is part of a horse's harness.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Stansell, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel. (open access)

Wind-Wheel.

Patent for "new and useful Invention in Wind-Wheels" (lines 5-6), including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marine Propeller (open access)

Marine Propeller

Patent for a marine propeller which allows for "a reversal of the action of the wheel for propulsion in opposite directions or for turning the boat without changing the direction of rotation of the power-shaft."
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a chopping device that can be attached to an existing cultivator, allowing for the use of the cultivator to become a more versatile farm vehicle.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Vickers, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher. (open access)

Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.

Patent for chemical fire extinguishers "in which the acid-bottle consists of two concentric cylinders, the inner one of which is open at top and bottom, and which, when the bottle is placed in the cylinder containing the water and soda, potash, or other material, a compressed-air seal will be formed, preventing the acid and water from commingling; but when the bottle is inverted the seal will be broken, and the water and acid coming together will generate the gas." (Lines 18-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis Spencer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree-Hook. (open access)

Whiffletree-Hook.

Patent for whiffletree-hook that provides "a novel device of this character in which it is impossible for the trace ring or link to become accidentally detached, but which may be readily removed or disengaged from the hook when desired" (lines 15-20). The invention has a flattened circular plate.
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle-guard that improves on patents previously granted to the inventor (No. 516,307 and No. 501,785). The improvements include "the provision of a counter balance or lever with a weight slidingly thereon, which can be adjusted so as to better regulate the platform (lines 25-28) and perforated guards, which will not get as damaged by the wind as non-perforated guards. The patent also includes springs under the platform instead of springs under the sills.
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle-guard that does not let cattle become entangled and killed in the guard, and does not allow cattle to pass over the rails. Cattle also will not get thrown or trip on the guard, and the trains will not be endangered.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree. (open access)

Whiffletree.

Patent for an all-metal one-piece whiffletree of "strength, economy, durability, and lightness" (lines 21-22) with solid metal ends that interlock with trace-hooks and prevent "the trace-coupling from becoming accidentally disconnected" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow. (open access)

Sulky Plow.

Patent for a new and improved sulky-plow. This design consists, "with the frame of the carriage and the axle of the furrow-wheel, of an inclined perforated portion or device, the washers or collar-like devices arranged on either side of the part and penetrated by the axle of the wheel, and means for clamping together rigidly the combined parts" (lines 70-76).
Date: September 20, 1892
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for improvements in harrows, "so that any farmer who possesses a Georgia stock or ordinary plow-beam with its attached handles can purchase one of [these] improved harrows per se and without the exercise of any special mechanical knowledge or experience apply the harrow device or contrivance to the beam of such ordinary plow stock." (Lines 40-47) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow and Cultivator. (open access)

Harrow and Cultivator.

Patent for a combination harrow and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements to plows, including a mechanism to enhance the durability of the parts of the plow that receive the most use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 30, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator implement "that is adapted in the event of meeting any impassable obstruction in the soil to turn backward at its lower end and permit the cultivator implement to ride through the action of the draft-power and, with the assistance of the attendant, so as to pass over such immovable obstruction and thereafter perform its intended cultivating function." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter. (open access)

Seed-Planter.

Patent for a more simple and affordable way to make seed planters "in which there is used some sort of opener to make a furrow into which the seed are dropped, and some sort of devices which follow after and cover over the seed," (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History