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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Hart, Granville M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Rake.
Patent for new stalk rake design, “especially applicable as a rake for gathering corn or cotton stalks from the ground preparatory to plowing the same or otherwise fitting it for use”, (lines 13-17) including illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1902
Creator:
Clark, Joesph Lauson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Handling Apparatus
Patent for a cotton handling apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
December 19, 1905
Creator:
Tidwell, Albert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Apparatus.
Patent for a new cotton-handling apparatus with cleaning mechanisms and a storage-house, including illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1906
Creator:
Tidwell, Albert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Engine.
Patent for a chemical fire engine that does not require refilling after the first charge is emptied.
Date:
February 14, 1911
Creator:
Minnis, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn planters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 25, 1898
Creator:
Webb, Richard Haywood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney Holder
Patent for a chimney holder. This invention is designed to provide an improvement to lamp chimneys. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1910
Creator:
Sparks, Litch
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fish-Hook
Patent for a fish hook designed to catch the fish by its head when it takes the bait. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 9, 1909
Creator:
Timmons, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine.
Patent for a cotton chopping machine, which can be attached to a cultivator, has a mechanically operated hoe, and automatically changes its cutting height for different heights of ground.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Martin, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binder For Books
Patent describing an invention for a binder to securely hold pages, but allow leaves to be removed, and also lay flat. It includes oppositely-disposed hinged plates with a locking-rod.
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Crowder, Joseph Wade & Simmons, W. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn, which can be cooled or warmed and which has an improved dasher.
Date:
November 8, 1910
Creator:
Jarnagin, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a clothes pounder used in washing clothes. It is a pyramidal vessel that is open in the bottom and has perforations on the top of the inside of the vessel, a cap covering the top of the pyramid with an air-hole, a sleeve that goes through the top of the vessel and through the cap, a handle in the upper portion of the sleeve, a diaphragm with perforations in the base of the vessel, a rectangular box secured beneath the diaphragm, and inclined tubes open at both ends of the angles of the vessel.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Leddy, Owen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge.
Patent for a bridge of "simple and strong construction in metal of very low cost and light weight, using only such materials as are easily available, being also of easy construction and well adapted to resist washouts" (lines 9-13).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Kosure, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compress.
Patent for "surgical instruments which are used for stopping the flow of blood during an amputation or other similar operation." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Burton, Edwin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling that has a draw-bar attached to the car, a hollow draw-head with a flaring opening that sits horizontally to the draw-bar, a spring that holds the draw-head in the horizontal position, a bar that raises and lowers the forward end of the draw-head against the spring, a coupling-pin that sits in the draw-head, a chain that connects the draw-head to the bell-crank lever, a cam that supports the chain, and a device that turns the cam in either direction in order to tighten the chain.
Date:
March 31, 1896
Creator:
Epps, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent to an improvement to churns "in which its action may be either single or double acting by means of a simple and efficacious arrangement of parts" (lines 18-21).
Date:
January 19, 1886
Creator:
Persohn, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved car-brake. This design consists in "the combination of the swinging arms arranged in front of the wheels, the curved brake-shoes pivoted at their front ends to the lower ends of the arms, and the swinging slotted links connecting intermediate points of the brake-shoes to a stationary part of the car, whereby the free end of the shoe is capable of a swinging movement independent of the links" (lines 76-84).
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Otenhouse, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Rake.
Patent for an improved combined stalk cutter and rake that has a main frame, a rake frame, a hanger attached to the axle-bar under the frame, arms at the back of the frame, a transverse rod in the hanger and slots in the arms, a rock-lever, connections for operating the frame, a rake at the end of the frame, and an operating lever.
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Priestley, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Dish-Washer and Churn
Patent for a combined dish-washing machine and churn, with illustration and description of parts.
Date:
June 16, 1885
Creator:
Fletcher, William Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plaiting Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved plaiting machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, of a plaiting apparatus, of a fixed transverse bar, a second transverse bar adapted to be adjusted relative thereto, and means for securing the said adjustment, each of said bars being provided with a transverse metallic strip bent to form inclined ribs" (lines 98-103).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Raney, Ollie T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beam or Girder.
Patent for a new and improved girder. This design is "composed of a vertical web and a flange or flanges, a mass of the metal in a flange or flanges projecting from the web at and near one-half the distance between the axis and the neutral line" (lines 48-53).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Cousins, Robert Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1891
Creator:
Williams, George M. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date:
December 21, 1878
Creator:
Cummins, John Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Building
Patent for improvements to cotton gin buildings granted to Benjamin F. Ferguson to reduce the risk of fire and the cost of ginning cotton.
Date:
February 27, 1883
Creator:
Ferguson, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History