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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Fumigator.
Patent for an improved fumigator that's primary purpose is to kill insects within corn storage units without damaging either the corn or the building. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Bozarth, Stephen P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for "a machine for planting corn or cotton, that may be attached to almost any kind of plow, simple in construction, easily repaired by an ordinary blacksmith, and capable of use in a satisfactory manner for planing where stumps and rocks would interfere with the operation of machines of ordinary construction" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 31, 1880
Creator:
Krüger, Theodore Charles Herman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.
Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Bridges, Mary Jane
System:
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Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design consists in "the combination of the frame, supporting wheels, cover, side-curtains, troughs, and partitions" (lines 53-55).
Date:
May 1, 1883
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads
Patent for an attachment for a bedstead in order to hold a tray. The invention allows a tray, or trays, to be held over a bed to hold food, drink, or other items closer to the occupant.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Beechie, Simon Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump.
Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Runge, Friedrich Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator.
Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date:
June 11, 1918
Creator:
Stubs, Orace Virgil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chairs.
Patent for improvements in chairs: "the back, seat, foot rest, and head rest are all self adjusting, and operated by the natural movements of the occupant" (lines 11-13).
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil-Exterminating Device.
Patent for a machine that catches insects and their eggs by using beaters and a catch pan as the machine is drawn over crops. The parts are adjustable to adapt to the size of crop rows and crops.
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Cape, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient wrench device, which is "capable of extracting nails and of being used as a screw-driver without interchanging any of the parts or substituting one part for another" (line 14 - 17).
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Weiss, Martin
System:
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Wrench
Patent for a wrench that can also be used as a pipe. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Green, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon
Patent for "relates to the construction of wagon beds or bodies; and it has for'its object to provide a simple means for bracing such beds-or bodies to prevent the sides thereof from spreading under a load, and whereby the heavy standards usually employed may be dispensed with" (lines 23-30).
Date:
March 18, 1890
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved wagon attachment. This design "relates to hay frames or racks for use with the ordinary box wagon-bodies; and it has for its object to provide a light frame or rack of simple construction adapted for adjustment to wagon boxes or bodies of different width and so constructed as to be folded in a compact form. To these ends the invention consists in a foldable hay frame or rack adapted to fit into a wagon-body and adapted for adjustment to such body; also, in structural features and combination of parts" (lines 19-30).
Date:
April 8, 1890
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Tube Holder
Patent for a well tube holder for removing pipes from wells and holding them in place. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Preston, Lyman L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vulcanizer
Patent for a product that vulcanizes the rubber of tire casings more easily. It holds a combustible fuel for heating and has a curved design to better fit the shape of the tire.
Date:
April 17, 1914
Creator:
Lawrence, Arthur E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Cabinet.
Patent for a type cabinet for storing dating type.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Chapman, Mercer E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Hart, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.
Date:
July 21, 1874
Creator:
Mitchell, Daniel Chasteen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Cover.
Patent for a new and improved ventilating cover. This design "consists in the detailed construction of the same . . . whereby the contents of . . . vessels are protected from dust, insects, and all kinds of impurity, and at the same time are thoroughly ventilated by free communication with the atmosphere, and so that any gases arising from the contents of said vessels will not be confined with the contents, but will pass off through the ventilating-cover into the surrounding air" (lines 16-26).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Smith, Ralph Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History