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Bin-Measuring Apparatus
Patent for a bin measuring apparatus for weighing dry products for sale quickly and accurately.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Duke, Joseph S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Hook.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in back band hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1898
Creator:
Lynch, John Elbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling-Frame for Planters.
Patent for a coupling frame for planters for attaching two planters together.
Date:
December 13, 1910
Creator:
Barkley, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Gin Feeder
Patent for cotton cleaner and gin feeder. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
Gooch, James Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Charles F. & Smith, Clyde D.
System:
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Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Ross, Edgar L.
System:
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Cotton Attachment For Cultivators
Patent for a cotton attachment for cultivators. This invention allows for the attachment to any normal cultivator of cotton attachment to cultivate cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Willis, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. This invention is for use with railways to prevent passage of stock over the tracks. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Jungman, Leo A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for an improvement to machinery to wind fibrous materials (e.g., cotton) into cylindrical bales that does not use a core or fixed horizontal rollers.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Ross, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the draw-head, the trip-block pivoted on the upper side of the same, the trigger secured to the upper side of the draw-head, and the spring bearing on the trip-block" (lines 82-86).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Woolsey, Charles Alexander & Woolsey, William Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter
Patent for "a device which shall be simple in construction and by meansof which the planting of the seed may be performed in an even and regular manner" (lines 9-13).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Cook, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor.
Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a wheel or disk having a toothed periphery and provided with a broad friction-flange, or a disk at right angles to the former, bearing against its friction-flange, and having studs engaging its teeth . . . [also] [i]n a churn-motor, the combination, with the box or body of the cover, having uprights, [a] shaft having [a] crank, disk having teeth and [a] flange, and the vertical shaft having [a] disk, provided with studs" (lines 67-77).
Date:
October 3, 1882
Creator:
May, Benjamin Cary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator
Patent for a new design to capture and exterminate Boll-Weevils; includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 22, 1916
Creator:
Riewe, Fridrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator
Patent for an air suctioning instrument that exterminates boll-weevil and other insects that infest cotton crops. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Goar, Robert Keith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Destroyer.
Patent for woll weevil destroyer that is an attachment that can be applied to the frame and beams of a cultivator and may knock weevil and insects from plants standing in a row.
Date:
June 4, 1918
Creator:
Young, Troy W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for wire stretcher which draw fence-wire and hold the stack. This device is used mainly while working with fence-wires and supplemental tie-wires.
Date:
July 15, 1902
Creator:
Halpain, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher and Wheel-Carrier.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher and reel-carrier, meant to make wire needed for fences easier to be ready at the builder's disposal and to stretch the wire to the correct amount of tension.
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Pruitt, Andrew L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher that can easily stretch a wire in a series on a fence in such a way that the stretcher doesn't need to brace against a post.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Sparkman, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriting machines with the aim of providing "a machine of simple and durable construction, capable of use for the ordinary purposes to which type-writers are applied, but especially adapted and designed for typewriting upon blank books, thereby facilitating the making of official records and producing records that are more legible and compact than it is possible to obtain by handwriting" (lines 11-18).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Borden, William J. & Johnson, Jahu W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the boiler having the transverse rollers, of the [other] roller having peripheral corrugations and the intermediate slots, the bail, and the counterweight whereby the roller may be balanced on the end wall of the boiler" (lines 85-90).
Date:
May 18, 1886
Creator:
Pinkerton, John Franklin
System:
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Machine for Destroying Cotton Boll Weevils
Patent for a machine that destroys cotton boll weevils. Illustration included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Riewe, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a knee-pad that is meant to protect cotton-pickers as they crawl in uncomfortable areas. The knee-pads are made up of a concave oval made from leather, metal, or another strong material, with cloth attached to the base and edges of the oval. Straps go around the cloth and around the leg to hold it in place.
Date:
July 7, 1896
Creator:
Fergusson, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for a new ironing table that folds into a compact form. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1900
Creator:
Beacham, John Brandon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Brake-Shoe and Holder.
Patent for a brake-shoe and holder for wagons, which is easy to remove from the holder and directly engages the wheel.
Date:
January 19, 1909
Creator:
Tubb, Thomas J. & Sheldon, Lon M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History