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Account-Book.
Patent for improvement in account-books by “dispensing a multiplicity of books in keeping accounts and to devise means for combining in one book and upon a single page thereof the features of the ledger, day-book, bill-book and bills-receivable book, said page to be so provided with perforation as to admit of the detachment of certain parts, leaving intake theat part of the page that is intended for permanent record.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Huck, Henry J., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Addressing-Machine.
Patent for an improved addressing machine, which will "paste, cut, and attach the slip simultaneously, or with one operation" (lines 26-27), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Shade Hanger
Patent for a window shade hanger device which allows for the shade to be placed at multiple stations by sliding and covering any portion of the window desired instead of a stationary shade mount.
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Hillman, Annie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, and effective device whereby the ants are confined to a space within the circle of the trap, speedily captured, and exterminated. It consists in a trap constructed with a circular flanged pit provided with tubes leading therefrom to a central ant-receptacle; also, in the details of construction of the trap" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Barnes, Robert Hanson & Salles, George Camiel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Floating Vessels.
Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Cotton.
Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.
Date:
June 19, 1890
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton.
Patent for a machine that puts gins and condensers in a line, which sit over a flue. "The lint cotton in bat form being delivered from all of the condensers in independent bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton increasing in thickness upon the common conveyer and in its travel to a press, compress or other receptacle, receiving the different bats from the different condensers, one bat lying smoothly upon the other, until at the discharge end of the common conveyer, the bat in which the lint is evenly distributed and which is of considerable thickness, will be conveniently discharged" (lines 13-24).
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Zedler, Friedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Phonographs, &c.
Patent for an attachment for phonographs to be used to have records play on a loop. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Perrenot, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Protector.
Patent for a protective device designed to keep an infant from sufficiently bending their arms and reaching their mouth, thereby preventing the child from potentially ingesting dangerous foreign articles.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Dodd, Jacob Everette
System:
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BED-BOTTOM
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in bed bottoms". The bed bottom fits any bedstead and it is cheap, portable, and durable.
Date:
July 13, 1880
Creator:
Pafford, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer
Patent for
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
John S. Doak & Alexander G. Farrington
System:
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Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.
Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for a car-replacer that is simple and inexpensive and can be easily set and removed. The replacer has two blocks shaped like triangles and tie rods connecting the blocks.
Date:
February 13, 1894
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis Attachment for Plows.
Patent for an agricultural plow attachment that allows for more precision concerning the measurement of depth of the plow point against different types of terrain/soil conditions.
Date:
February 13, 1920
Creator:
Wolter, Fred W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Penknife
Patent for a combination penknife that includes: blades, awl, tack puller, screwdriver, beer bottle opener, cork screw, thorn extractor. The pen knife uses a "pocket" within the blades to house the corkscrew and awl.
Date:
February 9, 1915
Creator:
Feyrer. Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Book and Pencil Holder.
Patent for a book and pencil holder that mounts a pencil or pen and attaches to a book. The combined book and pencil holder uses a clamp so the pen or pencil attached to the book inside a pocket is maintained in a pocket and does not fall out.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
Colbert, Charles W.
System:
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Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination of a central beam having a slot at its rear end and a hook at its front end, the laterally-adjustable bars connected with said beam, the scraper-standards pivoted to the adjustable bars, the front clevis for the beam, and rear yoke or support having a transverse pin, and the suspension-chains with a supporting-frame" (lines 101-108).
Date:
November 1, 1881
Creator:
McCaskill, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter
Patent for "a planter that shall be self-covering and adjustable as to the transverse and longitudinal space between the hills and rows, and which at the same time may be regulated as to the amount of material fed at each throw of the seed-slide, and which will also mark off the adjacent row as the machine advances" (lines 10-16).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Westhoff, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railway-Switch and Car-Replacing Mechanism.
Patent for a combined railway-switch and car-replacing mechanism that is meant to "provide certain improved devices which can be arranged to operate as a switch mechanism, or as car replacing means, which can be easily manipulated, are of a simple construction and which will effectively serve for their intended purposes" (lines 11-16). It can be easily assembled and dissembled.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canvas adapted to slide in the frame" (lines 9-21).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Hake, Francis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for a pneumatic feed device or elevator and distributor for cotton gins. It has a mechanical conveyer that connects "with the blast device, so that a positive force feed is obtained and the cotton is placed evenly over the gins, and wherein further an overflow box is employed and an independent means of feeding the cotton through the medium of the said blast device, either from a vehicle or bin or from the overflow box, thus enabling the gin to be fed even while the connection between the bin or main source of supply is cut off; and wherein also the blower or fan employed in connection with the pneumatic conveying device may likewise be used for forcing the speed delivered from the gin to any desired point" (lines 12-26).
Date:
May 14, 1895
Creator:
Zelder, Friedrich & Ward, Perry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists "[i]n a cotton or other plant sprinkler, the reservoir or tank mounted upon a suitable carriage or truck, and having connected thereto a pump, in combination with the grooved pulley, rigidly secured to the wheel of the carriage or truck, belt or chain, pulley, clutch, and crank, connected by suitable levers or arms to the piston-rod . . . with the pipes, provided with roseheads, of the arm or carrier, formed in sections and connected to a suitable lever for raising or lowering it" (lines 20-33).
Date:
May 17, 1881
Creator:
Wolfram, John Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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