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Automatic Bench Clamp And Dog. (open access)

Automatic Bench Clamp And Dog.

Patent for a new and useful automatic bench clamp and dog.
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Rogers, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Holder (open access)

Coin-Holder

Patent for " a new coin holder that holds coins of different denominations in given amounts for circulating purposes," (lines 8-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1900
Creator: Sledge, Clarence Linden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Planter. (open access)

Combined Plow and Planter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Franklin, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Parker, Joseph Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Arch for Cultivators (open access)

Adjustable Arch for Cultivators

Patent for an adjustable arch for cultivators.
Date: October 27, 1903
Creator: Porter, Harrison B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer. (open access)

Cotton-Distributer.

Patent for "a new and improved cotton-distributer to provide a means for equalizing the distribution of cotton to a series of connected receptacles and for retaining the cotton in the receptacles until it is desirable to deliver it to the hoppers or feed devices for cotton-gins." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Parker, Joseph Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for new bailing press that that improves "hay-presses of the full circle or continuous type for baling hay, straw, and the like." (lines 8-10) Illustrations included.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Leineweber, Francis & Welge, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading and Weighing Device. (open access)

Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Paolucci, Henry Emanuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Wagon. (open access)

Cotton Picker's Wagon.

Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Collins, Charles P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs (open access)

Attachment for Pianos or Organs

Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Stukes, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Basket. (open access)

Basket.

Patent for a metallic produce basket. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1897
Creator: Taylor, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an automatic churn, which churns up and down and rotationally. To operate, turn a crank and a gear inside the churn moves the blades.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Rogers, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame. (open access)

Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame.

Patent for a bit-brace with right-angled V-guide frame, with description and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: McClellan, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace. (open access)

Bit-Brace.

Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: McClellan, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Franks, Lewis W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes. (open access)

Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.

Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Dailey, Basil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "form[s] the central opening of the draw-bar with a tup-bar having rearwardly a spiral spring. The forward end of this tup-bar is inclined forwardly somewhat at an angle at the top, so that when the said bar is pushed forward by the spiral spring at its rear end, the coupling-pin will rest upon this forwardly-projecting end of the bar, while the link will rest beneath, so that in dropping the pin will rest within the link, and not on the outer side, which would be the case if this bar were square" (lines 15-26).
Date: December 15, 1885
Creator: McAllister, Sanders F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wrench. (open access)

Combination Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "[t]he bar having the nut-wrench and the hammer-head formed at one end, the pipe-wrench formed at the opposite end, and the slot made in one side, the spring located in the bottom of the slot or opening, and the blade pivoted in one end of the slot or opening and bearing on the free end of the spring, the said blade forming a screw-driver" (lines 52-59).
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: Wright, Augustus Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan. (open access)

Automatic Fan.

Patent for a new and improved automatic fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the attaching-plate, the depending rod, the fixed plate on the lower end thereof, the socket arms pivotally connected to said plate at their inner ends, and the fans held in the sockets in said arms, of the plate loosely mounted on the rod above [the] plate, having arms, the rods pivotally connecting the outer ends of said arms, the pitman connected to [another] plate, and the operating crank" (lines 67-76).
Date: October 9, 1888
Creator: Goodspeed, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Boring Holes, &c. (open access)

Brace for Boring Holes, &c.

Patent for a brace for boring holes through window sashes. It was invented "to enable [the inventor] the more quickly and better to apply my "sash lock", patented July 19, 1892, and numbered 479,152, but may be used for other purposes" (lines 20-23).
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: McClellan, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake. (open access)

Car-Brake.

Patent for improvement to train brakes by using a car brake apparatus.
Date: July 21, 1885
Creator: Sledge, Clarence Linden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer. (open access)

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an improvement that "relates to that class of cotton-packers which receive cotton from the condenser after ginning and pack it in a box preparatory to being pressed and tied into a bale; and its object is to provide means whereby the cotton may be packed int he box automatically" (lines 8-14).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Hart, Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the wheeled frame, the two laterally and vertically movable drag-bars jointed thereto, and each provided with shovels, the horizontal rotary-shaft lying between the drag-bars and provided with a blade arranged to revolve between the shovels of the respective beams, the transverse shaft mounted on the frame and connected by driving devices with the ground-wheel, and the intermediate shaft connected to the [other] shafts . . . by universal joints" (lines 17-27).
Date: June 21, 1887
Creator: Hutchins, Charles Nelson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bag. (open access)

Bag.

Patent for a new and improved bag. This design is "compris[ed of] the body divided down its front, one edge having staples and the other edge having openings adapted to engage said staples, a covering-flap provided with an opening adapted to engage one of said staples, and a flexible fastening device secured to said bag and adapted to be passed through said staples for securing the edges and covering-flap" (lines 62-71).
Date: July 19, 1887
Creator: Franks, Lewis Wigfall
System: The Portal to Texas History