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Apparatus For Cementing Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Cementing Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto. (open access)

Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto.

Patent for new and useful improvements in composition railroad ties and means for securing rails thereto, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells. (open access)

Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in devices for forcing water out of wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for a new railroad tie constructed of concrete material with detachable internal reinforcements used to support the rail fastening system, with illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1914
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for improvement in cultivators by making all the beams that had blades attached to them adjustable by a lever. A roller is designed for covering the seed and smoothing over the ground after the seeds are discharged by a slider which is operated by a crank-shaft near the end of the machine. A detachable revolving stalk-cutter can be used for cutting stalks on the ground by means of a suitable connector at the rear end of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date: September 7, 1869
Creator: Baker, Job McNamee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Oils (open access)

Apparatus for Extracting Oils

Patent for a new and useful improvement "in a novel process and combination of devices or apparatus for extracting the oil from cotton seeds and other oil bearing seeds" (lines 8-12). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Press. (open access)

Cotton-Baling Press.

Patent for "an improved construction of hydraulic baling-presses, whereby it is designed to provide simple and more durable and reliable presses of this kind than any now in use" (lines 8-12).
Date: July 29, 1884
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton Seed Cleaner.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner. This design "is to be used in connection with a machine for removing short lint from cotton-seed . . . The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner, which is simple and durable in construction and very effectively removes all impurities from the shell of the seed. . . . The invention consists of a revolving horizontal disk-brush and of a fixed table provided with emery-slabs and perforated plates and in contact with the brush" (lines 8-21).
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press for Expressing Oil from Cotton and Other Seeds. (open access)

Press for Expressing Oil from Cotton and Other Seeds.

Patent for a new and improved oil-press. This design "consists in certain novel constructions and combination of the pressing-plates with each other and the ram of the press, and in means for operating said plates in independent series, whereby great efficiency is obtained, and the plates, which are guttered or grooved, may be readily cleaned" (lines 18-24).
Date: December 21, 1886
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Flour and Process of Making the Same. (open access)

Cotton-Seed Flour and Process of Making the Same.

Patent for cotton-seed flour and the process for producing it, including removal of the oils and hulls.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Baumgarten, Gustav Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a harrow that is easily adjustable to different situations.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Baumgarten, Johan Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dividers or Compasses. (open access)

Dividers or Compasses.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dividers or compasses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Benes, Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Shade. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Shade.

Patent for a cotton-picking shade that will furnish a portable shade or shield for the use of cotton-pickers to protect them from the direct rays of the sun while at work.
Date: July 22, 1879
Creator: Benthall, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for "a cultivator of simple and durable construction, capable of being adjusted laterally to any width and vertically to any desired height" (lines 9-12).
Date: July 9, 1889
Creator: Benthall, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoemaker's Tool. (open access)

Shoemaker's Tool.

Patent for a shoemaker's tool that allows the heel or lift to be easily removed without damaging the other parts of the shoe, with illustrations and instructions. Constructed so that heels of any size or shape can be removed without making adjustments to the tool.
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Berger, William & Blaschke, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Topical Remedy (open access)

Topical Remedy

Patent for a topical remedy for the local treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis and gout.
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Blume, John H. & Loving, Christopher
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin (open access)

Cotton Gin

Patent for a cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1904
Creator: Bodungen, Clemens G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mote Board For Cotton Gins (open access)

Mote Board For Cotton Gins

Patent for mote board for cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Bodungen, Clemens G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape. (open access)

Fire-Escape.

Patent for improvements in fire-escapes by enabling the fire-escapes, “when not in use, to be compactly folded and arranged within a house or other building and capable of being quickly placed in position for use and of enabling persons and goods to be rapidly lowered to the ground with perfect safety.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date: April 8, 1902
Creator: Boettcher, Hermann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an improved design for a cotton chopper. The patent includes two sets of blades with opposite rotation and the ability to be stopped by the control of the operator. The design also includes improvements on cultivation and chopping for a more efficient process. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1880
Creator: Busch, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool. (open access)

Combination Tool.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "the combination of the two overlapping fulcrumed or pivoted levers having handles and forward ends of flattened crescent shape bent in reverse directions to cause their extreme reduced ends to abut to form nippers, and provided with beveled shoulders at the bases of their inner edges to form cutters and with serrated projections in rear of the pivot or fulcrum, and an angular arm movably attached to said pivot or fulcrum, carrying a receptacle adapted to be adjusted under the nippers for the reception of staples" (lines 29-42).
Date: July 16, 1889
Creator: Carter, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Painter's Scaffold-chairs. (open access)

Improvement in Painter's Scaffold-chairs.

Patent for use of house-painters and others an improved scaffold-chair that may be elevated and lowered at pleasure by the person sitting on the scaffold.
Date: May 16, 1876
Creator: Crockett, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps. (open access)

Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.

Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
Date: April 24, 1874
Creator: Crockett, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Machine. (open access)

Dredging Machine.

Patent for a new and improved dredging machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a boat or the like, provided with depending hangers at its bow and stern, of the shaft journaled in said hangers, and provided with a spiral screw extending throughout its length" (lines 88-92). It is "for removing sand-bars and similar obstructions in the beds of harbors or in streams by loosening the sand or the like, so that it will be suspended in the water and carried off by the natural or created current" (lines 22-26).
Date: May 10, 1887
Creator: Crockett, John Richardson
System: The Portal to Texas History