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Type-Writer.
Patent for a new device for typewriters which allows for shifting from lower case to upper case by means of "the one set of keys ordinarily employed, but of modified construction" (lines 14-15) including descriptions of the device, operation, and illustrations
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Austin, Thomas R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Branding-Chute.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in branding-chutes for "securely holding live stock during the process of branding the same" (line 12 - 14).
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Bennett, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs
Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish Catching Apparatus
Patent for a fish catching apparatus which will move artificial bait in the water to attract more fish.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Liner Clamp.
Patent for a well-liner clamp for oil, gas, and other similar wells that prevents the well from caving in. The well-liner clamp is made of resilient material to hold in place, contracts while being placed into the well, and can be released after being placed into the well to expand to fit the walls of the well.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Bigelow, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge
Patent for the construction of substantial bridges of wood adapted for long spans, and which can be put up where iron bridges would be too expensive.
Date:
May 24, 1881
Creator:
Brenner, August W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "for cultivating stubble, sugar-cane, cotton, corn, and other plants planted in rows or drills, which will remove the soil from the sides of the rows without injuring the roots, and will throw soil around the plants, and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use" (lines 15-21).
Date:
May 10, 1881
Creator:
Brenner, August William & Fraser, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Irrigating Land.
Patent for a new and improved irrigation machine. This design "consists in an irrigating-pipe having lapped side joints and notches in the inner edges of the lapped joints. The invention also consists in the combination, with a tank, of a trough below it, tubes projecting from the trough, and irrigating-pipes connected with the said tubes" (lines 12-18).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Briggs, Elias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spiral Ring.
Patent for a new and improved lap-ring. This design consists in a "lap-ring for connecting the tree-irons of double-trees and single-trees, consisting of the S-shaped lap-ring having the end curves spread laterally from the stem of the S, and carried round on spiral curves to points ninety degrees beyond a line that would evenly divide the figure thus formed longitudinally" (lines 41-48).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Brooks, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Bag Emptier
Patent for a portable derrick, that can be easily lifted and emptied.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Brown, Odis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Valve for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a safety valve for pneumatic tires that prevents the tire from exploding from excess pressure.
Date:
October 3, 1911
Creator:
Burkett, Bruce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang-Plow.
Patent for improvements in gang-plows in which the “disks” would contain a flared annulus and, it is formed by the truncation of a conical shell of large base and small altitude. This disk-plow “will penetrate the soil to the desired depth by its own natural draft with the minimum degree of friction and outlay of force.” (Lines 21-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow.
Patent for improvements in rotary plows which can be used as a subsoil-plow or it can be converted into a cultivator. The “purpose is to provide a novel gang-plow capable of cutting the soil at different depths, as circumstances may require, and in which the angle at which the plows enter the soil may be varied.” (Lines 18-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow
Patent for a gang-plow to be used when gangs of disks are used to turn over the soil so that it generates minimal friction and thus increasing efficiency.
Date:
November 15, 1892
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment.
Patent for " agricultural implements, more especially harrows or cultivators ; and it has for its objects a device which can be conveniently attached to the standards or footpieces of any cultivator and which may hold or carry different numbers of small plows or harrow-teeth for the cultivation of any crops or at any place where a small harrow is needed;" (lines 7-15) including illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Crosby, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ruler and Paper-Cutter
Patent for a ruler that may also be used as a paper cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 28, 1910
Creator:
Dibrell, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Turbine for Locomotives.
Patent for a compact mechanism related to steam turbines, which has positive geared connections with the driving access of the locomotive, resulting in reduced friction. This increases efficiency of the driving action while reduced the expenditure of elastic fluid in order to run smoothly.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Dumas, Joel Benjaman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machine
Patent for...Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machine
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Duncan, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocking Machine
Patent for an inexpensive attachment to a cotton cultivator/checking machine to improve the intake capacity of the cultivator itself. The blocking machine would be used to replace the manual labor task of chopping cotton before insertion into the cultivator for processing.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Ford, Barnie S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter
Patent for a cotton planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Guton, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Box
Patent for paper box formed from a single blank which can be folded into compact form.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Hale, Lawrence F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton checkers and cultivators by “providing a device in which the width of the hills or rows may be adjusted to suit the requirements of various grades of soil.” (Lines 15-17) Another improvement is to provide a “means to which the plows of the cultivator may be simultaneously raised or lowered, and when so raised or lowered may be kept in their adjusted positions.” (Lines 19-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator
Patent for a cotton checker and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert & Humble, Henry O. V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the whiffletree-support, the whiffletree, the hinge connecting such parts having its upper and lower plates secured, respectively, to the whiffletree and its support and jointed at their rear edges, and the arm or lever extended forward from the upper plate, whereby upward draft on said arm or lever will turn the whiffletree backward from its normal position to release the traces" (lines 91-100).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Harrison, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History