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Harvester for pea-vines
Patent is for harvester of pea vines. It's purpose is to provide an effective and efficient work in the harvesting of pea vines.
Date:
December 6, 1912
Creator:
Turrentine, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Feeder
Patent for stock feeder, for automatically feeding grain (or mill food) to stock (particularly hogs) with feeding troughs on opposite sides of oscillating storage hopper.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Dierks, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf-Turner.
Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.
Date:
January 11, 1921
Creator:
Holcom, Jarret C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel.
Patent for a spring wheel with a pneumatic tire that neither punctures nor becomes flat. The spring wheel construction has springs between the inner and outer rims.
Date:
August 10, 1920
Creator:
Horne, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lemon and Lime Squeezer
Patent for an improved lemon and lime squeezer that can divide the lemon and lime into two halves and squeeze the halves in succession, or one half be left un-squeezed.
Date:
June 3, 1919
Creator:
Bolton, Jack R.; Williams, John D. & Struve, Felix L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring-Dispenser.
Patent for a fluid measuring dispenser with a dispensing receptacle, measuring scale, and cooperating gauge. The gauge displays the exact quantity of fluid dispensed as well as the amount remaining in the receptacle.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Mauldin, Collumbus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planter.
Patent for a device that evenly and uniformly deposits peanut seeds during the planting operation whereby the required quantity of seed may be deposited in the soil. The device contains a supplemental container, separate from the main container, where the supplemental container can uniformly divide seeds for planting.
Date:
May 28, 1918
Creator:
Norman, William A. & Norman, Mack D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Tire
Patent for a bolt-free spring connection between a vehicle tires inner and outer rims, allowing for an air cushion between rims and improving overall performance of vehicle tires.
Date:
September 18, 1917
Creator:
Horne, Henry M. & Buford, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Quick-Acting Vise.
Patent for a quick-acting, easily operated vise "in which the jaws are automatically held closed upon the work until released." Its simple construction enables it to be inexpensively and efficiently manufactured.
Date:
August 14, 1917
Creator:
McCullough, Daniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pulling Implement
Patent for a pulling device with a "rotatably supported winding shaft" and "means for imparting the requisite rotation" (lines 16-18).
Date:
August 14, 1917
Creator:
Badley, Drury E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Discharge-Tube for Fertilizer-Distributors.
Patent for a device to evenly dispense fertilizer to soil. This is an agricultural device.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Kerr, Oscar F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bellows for Pneumatic Leaf Turners
Patent for bellows to leaf turners
Date:
February 20, 1917
Creator:
Holcom, Jarret C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie
Patent for Railroad Tie
Date:
September 26, 1916
Creator:
Stroud, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Filing Machine
Patent for a device that will create uniform shape to all the teeth on a saw blade, and can be quickly adjusted.
Date:
September 19, 1916
Creator:
Wilkinson, Henry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for connecting pipe-sections
Patent for embodying an improved construction whereby the ends of relatively heavy and large pipe sections be screwed together with minimum amount of manual labor.
Date:
June 20, 1916
Creator:
Simms, Joe M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pliers
Patent for pliers. The invention relates to improvements of the pliers, primarily adapted for use by linemen in securing an electric conducting wire upon an insulator, splicing the wire or stretching the same. The construction is to produce a pair of pliers which are simple in construction, cheap to manufacture and which will perform the functions of several ordinary tools.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Bryce, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cross Arm
Patent for a cross arm. Illustration included.
Date:
December 27, 1912
Creator:
Crabtree, Lawrence L. & Ripley, T. Charley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Soldering Machine
Patent for a can soldering machine. This device is designed to solder multiple units of lids to cans. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Irwin, Wiley I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery-Connector
Patent for a battery connector for providing electricity in homes without being connected to a power plant.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Hall, James Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment
Patent for a plow attachment for clearing pea vines out of fields.
Date:
April 16, 1912
Creator:
Post, Valta T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Socket.
Patent for an electric lamp socket that regulates the intensity of the current passing through the socket. It has multiple contact posts and a manually operated slide that makes contact with the posts.
Date:
February 13, 1912
Creator:
Hall, James Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for the addition of interlocking extensions onto the ends of railway joints. The interlocking extensions make bolts and nuts unnecessary and provide a snug fit, which eliminates both lateral and longitudinal movement.
Date:
October 10, 1911
Creator:
Free, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Rural-Free-Delivery Boxes.
Patent for a mailbox support, which swings out into the road for the mail carrier to reach easily and then can be swung back into the yard when mail is delivered.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Randall, Osro W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History