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Rotary Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Lee, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Royse, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot.
Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design "consists in securing a wire diagonally down the side of the pot, and to which wire is attached the cover of the pot in such a manner that the cover can be dropped down out of the way when the condenser is put on without detaching the cover from the pot" (lines 13-18).
Date:
October 4, 1881
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot.
Patent for "improvements in coffee-pots, and has for its object the provision of an improved coffee-grounds holder, together with a device of improved form for spraying the water thereover, the latter device operating in conjunction with a condenser; and a further object is to provide the pot with an adjustable handle." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.
Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a simple and efficient churn where "the process of churning is rendered easier, the resultant product firmer, and butter obtained in a shorter space of time than heretofore, while at the same time the milk is left in better condition and rendered free from water" (lines 12-17).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Holt, Henry Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Skein.
Patent for an axle-skein. Its purpose is "to improve the construction of axle-skeins, to increase their strength and durability, and to decrease the wear of the same at the bottom thereof" (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Finley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a pin-and-link car-coupling that allows "cars to be readily coupled and uncoupled without going between them, and by which a link may be readily guided into the mouth of a draw-head without necessitating a person going between the cars" (lines 11-16). It also has a durable link lifting or guiding device.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Orr, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back Band for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved back-band for harnesses. This design "relates to back-bands for that class of harnesses wherein chains are used for traces; and [the] invention consists, principally, in providing the back-band at its ends with metal loops through which the traces pass to protect the leather of the back-band from wear. The invention also consists in connecting snap-hoops to the metal end-pieces by means of metal loops" (lines 7-15).
Date:
January 18, 1887
Creator:
Johnson, Ike
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design consists in "the combination, with an essentially T-shaped body having the members of the head inclined in direction of the straight member and provided with a series of teeth, of a lever pivoted to the straight member of the body contiguous to the head and clamping-jaws pivoted upon the said lever" (lines 32-39).
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Hughes, George Roland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has for its object to provide a device of simple, durable, and economical construction and capable of carrying the roll taut a sufficient distance beyond the post to conveniently nail the wire thereto, and whereby any amount of slack can be taken up by repeated operation. The further object of the invention is to provide a machine which will also be able to draw together the broken ends of a wire and take up the slack between the posts" (lines 8-18).
Date:
October 22, 1889
Creator:
Hickman, Thomas P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liniment.
Patent for an antiseptic liniment comprised of flaxseed oil, turpentine, and sulphuric acid.
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Bates, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c.
Patent for a new and useful improvements to compouds used in the destroying of trees. Lists ingredients and dosages.
Date:
October 21, 1879
Creator:
Buchanan, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improvement to washing machines that will be "simple and economical in construction and efficient in use" (lines 13-14).
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Austin, John Overton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "the combination of a bar provided with a toothed quadrant and with a boss having an overhanging projection at its rear end, an eccentric pivoted on the face of the said boss for holding the wire against the projection, a hand-lever pivoted to the bar, and provided with a spring-detent engaging with a toothed quadrant, a plate pivoted at one end to the hand-lever and provided with an overhanging projection, and a second eccentric pivoted upon the face of the plate for gripping the wire against the projection" (lines 77-88).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Mason, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater and Purifier.
Patent for a new and improved water heater and purifier. This design consists "[i]n the condenser, having the cover, the water-pipe and exhaust-steam pipe combined with the corrugated convex disk, whereby the water falls upon the disk and the steam enters beneath it" (lines 6-10).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a simple and expensive knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, &c. The invention affords "the most perfect protection to the user by protecting his knee against contact with objects which would tend to bruise and injure it, and by preventing the dampness of the ground from being transmitted to the knee, which, as is well known, results in various diseases, such as rheumatism" (lines 13-20).
Date:
August 6, 1895
Creator:
Hamilton, James William & Siebenthall, John Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Motors.
Patent for power-operated motors used "for operating churns" (lines 13-14), with the option of using spring-power, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 19, 1878
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trawl-Line.
Patent for a trawl-line that is supported so that it "can be caused to travel continuously in the same or reversed directions at will" (lines 12-14). The invention prevents "the choking of the line supporting pulleys with grasses and other foreign matter, and also to enable the ready adjustment of the pulley son the posts to change the elevation of the trawl-line and the depth of dip of the hooks in the water" (lines 16-21).
Date:
July 24, 1894
Creator:
White, Warren Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "consists in the construction and combination of parts . . . [of] that class of machines for cutting cotton and other stalks, consisting, essentially, of parallel runners or beams carrying outwardly-projecting knives, which serve to cut the stalks as the machine is drawn over the ground" (lines 15-22).
Date:
November 29, 1881
Creator:
Bolliver, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable frame, which is drawn along by two horses, so as to straddle a row of plants, a diagonal guide for guiding the plants, a guiding finger or piece for guiding the plants toward the knife, and a rake for raking the plants in piles or heaps as fast as they are cut" (lines 13-19).
Date:
July 3, 1883
Creator:
Early, Louis Simeon & Early, Matthias John Bourland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone Dress.
Patent for a new and improved millstone-dress. This design is "to provide a millstone-dress having angular furrows intersecting the main furrows of the stone and of gradually increasing depth from their outward extremities to the point where they intersect the main furrows, said angular furrows being oppositely inclined upon the upper and lower stones to form a perfect cutting system, to discharge the grain over the face of the stone and throw it toward the skirt or edge thereof, thereby giving a good draft" (lines 30-41).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Snodgrass, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marker Attachment for Plows.
Patent for an “improved device to be used upon plows, and the objects are to provide means whereby the succeeding row to be plowed may be marked, thereby giving a uniform plowing to the field; furthermore, to provide for an adjustment of the marker, whereby the distance between the rows may be adjusted.” (Lines 8-15) Includes illustration.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Marley, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester for Smoke Stacks.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design consists "a direct flue or smoke-stack . . . [which] projects and deflects the sparks or cinders through perforations in a vertical wall of a stack into a dead-air space that surrounds the draft-flue, there causing these sparks . . . to impinge against vertical ribs that subdivide the annular air-space that intervenes between an inner and outer cylindrical wall of the stack, gravity of the accumulating mass of cinders causing their discharge . . . through gates that are opened by the weight of the sparks above them and closed by their own gravity" (lines 15-30).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History