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Float for Delinters (open access)

Float for Delinters

Patent for a new float for cotton seed de-linters. Illustrations are included.
Date: June 17, 1910
Creator: Blanchard, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Wagon Tires. (open access)

Coupling for Wagon Tires.

Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the wheel-fellies, one of which has a longitudinal socket, of the overlapping sections secured to the contiguous ends of the tire, and having projecting lugs, an adjusting-bolt carried by one of the lugs and bearing against the other lug, and a protecting-plate having a threaded opening for the passage of the bolt and interposed between the end of the felly in which [a] socket is formed, and the lug adjacent thereto" (lines 80-90).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Simon, Henry Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists "[i]n a garden cultivator, the frame having slotted arm [that is] journaled, clevis, standard with plow, slotted arm, and wheels . . . [and] handles, adjusted . . . to lower and raise said handles" (lines 59-67).
Date: June 22, 1886
Creator: Miltenberger, Emile Rudolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Shears (open access)

Metal-Shears

Patent for "a machine of this nature specially designed for slotting sheets of metal in the formation of devices for plaiting cloth, a further object of the invention being to provide a machine that will be easy and simple of operation and may be operated with accuracy and into which the plate may be inserted and from which it may be removed with facility" (lines 8-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Hackett, Harry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for an oil burner which ensures the "formation of a thorough mixture of oil, air and a fluid under pressure, such as steam or compressed air" and the prevention of the "flooding of the burner with surplus oil".
Date: June 3, 1913
Creator: Eckhardt, Richard H.
System: The Portal to Texas History