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Improvement in Post Hole Diggers
Patent for a new design of post hole digger, with a single overlapping metal blade formed into a circular triangular form.
Date:
October 7, 1879
Creator:
Needham, Hiram K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Harrow
Patent for a wheeled revolving harrow used to pulverize the ground, reducing it to a good condition for planting grain.
Date:
February 24, 1919
Creator:
Thurston, Collie & Miller, Willie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Metal Piling
Patent for a sheet-metal piling of the lock joint type that will prevent leakage at the joints.
Date:
August 22, 1914
Creator:
Moulton, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Device for Dressing Down Bearings
Patent for a tool that dresses down bearings. Railroad engine journals and their corresponding bearings show wear over time. When replacing bearings into such a journal, without adaptation of the bearing there will be an improper fit, resulting in "hot journals" or "hot boxes". This tool adapts a bearing to a proper fit for the journal into which it will be installed.
Date:
December 12, 1922
Creator:
Mitchell, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furniture and Automobile Body Polish.
Patent for furniture and automobile polish made with an asphalt base for varnished and enameled surfaces such as automobile bodies, pianos, linoleum, stained floors, leather, and rubberized fabrics.
Date:
November 14, 1922
Creator:
Lomax, Thornton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Attachment
Patent for improved attachments for cotton gins. Useful amendments include the improvement of the function of "moving and regulating the feeding of cotton to the gin and the ejection of refuse, hulls and chaff." (lines 13-15). This is accomplished with the addition of a mechanism that "at regular intervals, close the feeder, open the gin breast and discharge the hulls and waste and again close the gin and open the feeder." (lines 37-40).
Date:
September 26, 1922
Creator:
Hooton, Claude A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter and Marker.
Patent for seed planting and marking machines specifically for planting corn, cotton, or any other seeds required planting in rows. This device allows row planting without a check cord or line as it will drop seeds at regular and variable (adjustable) intervals and mark hills.
Date:
February 21, 1922
Creator:
Sprowl, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Windlass.
Patent for improved Automobile Windlasses. It is a combination of horizontally disposed tubular sections on the right and left hand, an improvement in the windlass attaching mechanism.
Date:
October 11, 1921
Creator:
Davis, Marion A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for a hoe with "a colter shank at the oval top, affording means whereby the hoe may clear itself from large branching weeds, which is frequently a trouble met with in using hoes having a shank in the center."
Date:
August 16, 1921
Creator:
Clark, James Robert.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
High-Pressure Suction Fan and Blower.
Patent for "a fan which will operate in a continuous and highly efficient manner and increase the air pressure with a reduced power of operation" and "may be used either in conjunction with a cotton gin...or it may be used for any other purpose where suction or blast fans are used" (lines 31-33, 10-15). It includes an illustration.
Date:
August 2, 1921
Creator:
Blackmon, Enoch J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plaiting Device.
Patent for an improved plaiting device that simplifies the steaming and pressing of dress goods.
Date:
August 2, 1921
Creator:
Knaur, Laura L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for effective removal of cotton plants in an alternating pattern with a standard chopping depth, distance, and speed, with illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Antoni, Ernst J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sign.
Patent for signs, bulletin boards and other display apparatus; the purpose of this device is that display elements may be reversed from time to time to change announcement displayed.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Nowlin, Aubrey C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Casing Clamp
Patent for a tool that supports the drilling and operating of oil and gas wells. Specifically, the patented tool allows a strong method of sealing the smaller casing inside the larger casing, as the larger casing is pulled out of the well. Includes illustrations.
Date:
March 15, 1921
Creator:
Angus, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Turntable
Patent for “a turn table of simple and durable structure adapted to be placed in the floor of a small garage or at other points, and which will automatically operate when an automobile is run upon the same to effect the complete turning of the automobile machine in order that the machine may enter the garage while traveling a forward direction and leave the garage in a similar manner” (lines 17-25). Includes illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1921
Creator:
Sanders, Edwin J. & Morrison, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Rail Hose-Bridge.
Patent that provides a hose-bridge that is light in weight and simple in construction, that can be carried on the cars or stored at different points on the line convenient for use.
Date:
January 24, 1921
Creator:
Tyler, Charley P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawing Machine
Patent for a wood sawing machine which allows for a portable wood sawing apparatus. The device is capable of adjusting the saw to create a feed, and allows for cutting diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.
Date:
December 14, 1920
Creator:
Arnold, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut and Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a nut and pipe wrench that has a detachable handle member which allows the shank to be reduced and extended.
Date:
November 23, 1920
Creator:
Hunter, Arthur G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap that allows an animal, most suitably animals of the rodent species, to enter a rectangular box from any of its four sides through a gate formed of downwardly inclined wires pivoted above each of said openings inside of the box. When an animal enters the trap, they are unable to leave because of the downwardly bent ends of transverse bars secured to the said inclined wires.
Date:
November 2, 1920
Creator:
Smith, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor-Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved design that provides adaptability for tractor wheels, including illustrations. It allows tractor wheels that are designed to be used on sandy or soft land to also be used on hard soil.
Date:
November 2, 1920
Creator:
Furche, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train Signaling And Stopping Device.
Patent for Train Signaling And Stopping Device improvements intended to be of low cost, simple, durable, and run on electricity.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
McGregor, Charles Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fraud-Preventing Means For Commercial Papers
Patent for new format of bank checks in order to deter fraud.
Date:
October 12, 1920
Creator:
Tackett, William Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Windlass
Patent for improved windlass for an automobile that attaches to both rear wheels to prevent idling
Date:
April 20, 1920
Creator:
Davis, Marion A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Shield.
Patent for a tool to cover a portion of barbed wire fence allowing one to cross over or through without harm, composed of three or more telescoping metal tubes.
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Davis, Marion L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History