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Spinning Top
Patent for a spinning top. Illustration included.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Whitefield, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Cleaner.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plow cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Yeagley, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Foot
Patent for a plow or cultivator foot.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Williams, Budicille B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Driven Header and Binder
Patent for a mechanically driven header and binder tool that can be mounted to a tractor for use in large-scale agricultural harvesting, with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 16, 1918
Creator:
Swofford, Marvin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud Shoe.
Patent for a new and improved mud shoe. This design has for its object "to provide a device adapted to be worn over the ordinary boot or shoe and afford a convenient means for keeping the same out of the mud, dirt, or water; and the novelty consists in the detail of the construction and combination of the several parts" (lines 18-24).
Date:
November 13, 1883
Creator:
Carroll, Samuel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padded Underwaist.
Patent for a new and improved padded underwaist. This design "has for its object to provide a waist to be worn by persons who are thin or emaciated, to beautify the appearance, to increase the breadth from shoulder to shoulder, and to make the form look plump and round" (lines 14-18). To this end it is "provided upon its inner surface with pockets extending down the middle of the back, on the breasts, around the lower edge, down the sleeves, and down the sides beneath the arms, the pockets down the sleeves and beneath the arms being united together" (lines 90-95).
Date:
June 18, 1889
Creator:
McDowell, Mary D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle.
Patent for a muzzle for horses that can be easily applied. It prevents the animal from eating while its head is upright, and opens while the horse lowers its head to graze. This prevents the horse from damaging orchards.
Date:
February 5, 1895
Creator:
Lipscomb, Cicero D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press
Patent for a hay press. Illustration included.
Date:
June 6, 1905
Creator:
Gurley, John Mark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful washing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1900
Creator:
Biggs, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press.
Patent for an inexpensive and efficient hay-press that has an improved plunger mechanism. The mechanism is simple, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated.
Date:
May 1, 1894
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe Holder for Boot Blacking Stands
Patent for a shoe holder for boot blacking stands. This invention is to provide an inexpensive tree stand to firmly hold in place shoes for polishing. Illustration included.
Date:
July 21, 1903
Creator:
Hann, Edmund Lyne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Plow
Patent for a plow "operated by power, such as traction-engines, with which such plows may be readily connected, and which are usually so constructed as to conveniently transmit motion to the operating mechanism of the plow." (line 8-12)
Date:
June 2, 1903
Creator:
Parker, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Fastener
Patent for a trace fastener.
Date:
May 19, 1903
Creator:
Henderson, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for an improvement to gates. This model consists of a gate mounted at the middle on a vertical post pivoted at top and bottom.
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge.
Patent for a suspension-bridge “which will permit the main cable to expand and contract in different temperatures without materially affecting the principal parts and causing them to become displaced by reason of the slack of increased camber” (line 24-29, p.1), illustration is included.
Date:
February 10, 1891
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for centrally pivoting gates that can "be readily opened and closed from a vehicle or from on horseback" (lines 13-14).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Harvester.
Patent for a hand harvester that contains a plate and cutter to be used for harvesting corn and maize with more ease.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Taylor, Joseph S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starter
Patent for an engine starter that prevents backfiring.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Everly, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Framing-Tool
Patent for a framing tool designed to ease the laying of "rafters, stair carriages and the like" (lines 14-15). The tool assists in measuring proper "dimensions of cuts to be made in timber to accomplish desired construction" (lines 19-20).
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Whitlock, John N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Cot.
Patent for an extension cot, which can be widened through the folding out of extra slats from the top of the cot and folds compactly for transportation.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Whitlock, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm-Gate.
Patent for improvements to pivoted farm gates to open and close the gate at a distance.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Hancock, Ferdinand M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starter
Patent for improving the performance of starter mechanisms for internal combustion engines.
Date:
July 6, 1915
Creator:
Everly, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History