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Fly-Trap Shed (open access)

Fly-Trap Shed

Patent for a collapsible shed, which is equipped with a trap to catch flies when flies are being removed from cows in the shed through a water spray.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Harbuck, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Screen. (open access)

Fire-Screen.

Patent for a portable, ornamental fire screen. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1897
Creator: Havecotte, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Covering (open access)

Fireproof Covering

Patent for a fireproof covering. Illustration included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Brigance, Alice Osborne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for a fertilizer-distributer with "means for agitating and loosening up the fertilizing material and delivering the same through a series of discharge-openings, such series extending transversely of the path of movement of the machine across the field and controlled by individual and independently-operable feed slides or gates, whereby the machine may be used for simultaneously fertilizing adjoined furrows or as a broadcast fertilizer-distributer" (Lines 12-21).
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Mize, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and Condensing Steam. (open access)

Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and Condensing Steam.

Patent for improvement in apparatus for heating water, other liquids, and condensing steam.
Date: October 1, 1867
Creator: Phalen, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chairs. (open access)

Improvement in Chairs.

Patent for improvement in chairs, which provides adjustable shoulder supports and back (inclination and height), with intended advantages of better lung capacity and spinal alignment. The chair can be adjusted to fit all sizes of bodies. It is noted that some of the adjustable features could be incorporated into other furnishings such as beds or lounges. An additional feature of the chair is a retracting spring to assist the user in exiting the chair.
Date: May 9, 1876
Creator: Barnes, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
Date: July 24, 1877
Creator: McCarty, Ezra B. & Heagerty, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "slides over opposite holes in the bottom of its hopper and a dropping-cylinder provided with seed-cups on its periphery and removable screws rising from within the cups, whereby it may be changed . . . so as to plant corn or cotton" (lines 59-65).
Date: September 20, 1887
Creator: Becker, Philipp William Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Crossing (open access)

Railway Crossing

Patent for a railway crossing. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Meyerlambers, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint that connects the opposing ends of a pair of rails while allowing for necessary contractions and expansion of the rails due to atmospheric conditions. It also reinforces the portion of the joint at the meeting ends.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Busa, Adam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for a railroad-tie in which it will “maintain the gage standard when one rail is replaced by another rail having larger cross section than the original rail.” (Lines 21-23) Illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Hynds, David H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1900
Creator: Park, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Implement (open access)

Cutting Implement

Patent for a cutting tool which can be attached to the bottom of a shoe in order to chop cotton or other plants and pulverize ground. It is a sharp, flat, knife blade that affixes to the shoe with straps across the bridge and toe sections.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Brigance, Alice O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Camp, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame bearing the standards, of caster-wheels provided with shanks, which are vertically journaled in the bars at each side of said frame and in the ends of the cross-bar, the hand-lever which is secured at the forward end of the beam and pivotally connected to the center of said cross-bar and provided with a slot near its free end, the segmental upright, and the spring" (lines 16-25).
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Brown, Thomas Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an more efficiently designed cotton chopper.
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Brown, Thomas Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and  Weeder (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Weeder

Patent for a cotton chopper and weeder. Illustration included.
Date: March 29, 1904
Creator: Stewart, John Hanibal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date: February 6, 1883
Creator: Craig, William Sinclair
System: The Portal to Texas History