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Sash-Holder
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders," an invention which "aims to provide a sash-holder of simple construction for supporting a sash at any elevation and which will secure it when closed against being opened from the outside."
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Hardy, Isham B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Lock.
Patent for sash-lock. This device is designed for locking a window sash at any given position. It may be applied to a window frame without damaging the frame or sash.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Clements, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Opening Plow
Patent for a seed opening and planting plow. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Johnson, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heat-Producing Process.
Patent for Improvements in Heat-Producing Processes by way of "process of producing heat and conserving heat..." for use in various types of furnaces (lines 9-10).
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Bone, David R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Chopper.
Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date:
July 29, 1919
Creator:
Martin, Silas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1875
Creator:
Miller, Benjamin, F. & Reeves, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved horse-detacher. This design "is to make a compound single-tree which, with certain attachments, will hold the traces securely or allow them to be drawn off the hooks if the horse should run; also, to hold up the shafts while the horse is passing therefrom" (lines 15-20). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination, with the spring-held vibratory draft-rod having the loop, of the strap and the shaft, the latter carrying the oppositely-placed stirrup-arm and treadle-arm" (lines 74-78).
Date:
September 16, 1890
Creator:
Chamlee, Jeff D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in plows; and it has for its object the production of simple and highly-efficient means for regulating the depth and penetration of the plowshare in all kinds and conditions of soil." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1895
Creator:
Sinclair, James & Sellers, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved harness attachment. This design "compris[es] the pad having apertured ends, the buckle-frame, the loop therefrom having a beveled end provided with a lug or projection, the securing-plate having apertured ends, and the trace or tug" (lines 70-75).
Date:
September 13, 1887
Creator:
Du Bose, Wade Hampton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Rack.
Patent for a simple harness rack that can be attached to a wagon bed, and is meant to conveniently hold harnesses when the horses are not hitched. The device can be turned out of the way when not being used.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Kitching, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement in plows by using a “combination of mold-board, land-bar, and share, which will effectually shed the land and prevent the latter from adhere to it.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Brown, William Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester
Patent for Cotton Harvester
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Lovejoy, Daniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a portable quilting frame.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Dalton, Gilbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nesting and Brooding Box
Patent for a nesting and brooding box made to keep poultry safe from other animals and to be easily transported. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 25, 1907
Creator:
Bradford, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Removing Tool.
Patent for a tool for removing nuts that have been "upset or beaded around the outer side of the nut" (lines 14-15).
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Carnes, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace
Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Bone, David R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow with adjustable handlebars and a better guidance system for depth and position in the ground.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Tucker, Samuel Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ditching Machine.
Patent for a new and improved ditching-machine. This design "consist[s] of the standards, block, handles, braces and round ears, axle and wheel having cogs, scoop provided with points, chute and side plates, elevator shaft, its upper end resting on the round band, elongated cups, rollers, and cog-wheels, shaft, inclined chute, [another] cog-wheel, arms, band, and rollers" (lines 87-95).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Witt, William Carroll, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ditcher.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Ditchers" (lines 5-6).
Date:
July 7, 1903
Creator:
Brown, John Dayton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design represents "improvements in coupling railroad-cars where any of the ordinary drawheads requiring the use of the link and pin are used; and the object of [the] improvement is to make a complete, simple, and durable car-coupler. . . . by means of a strong adjustable drop ring or link and catch-pin" (lines 13-20).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
Garrett, Jackson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that is easily adjustable and works between rows of plants. It consists of two expansible side-beams, a fixed cross bar, sliding cross bars, pivoted rods, and a toothed lever latch.
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Robinson, Nelson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for a cotton harvesting machine, that is portable and contains a function to transfer cotton "from the picking spindles to a receptacle carried on the machine" (lines 29-30), including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Lovejoy, Daniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History