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Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.
Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Smitham, Nicholas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Frame.
Patent for a plow frame, which is adjustable to different widths.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
McDonnold, Pleasant T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date:
May 2, 1905
Creator:
Pruitt, George Holditch & Pruitt, Conrad D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow.
Patent for improvements in middle-breakers and turning-plows by providing an attachment for the middle breakers or turning plow, in which it will permit lateral adjustment of the wheel, by the use of a compound axle of adjustable length. (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 4, 1910
Creator:
Armstrong, Josiah B. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts the stalks with a sliding cut and has multiple blades that are adjustable.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Henry, Reeves
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Construction
Patent for a fan construction. This invention uses a spring motor to provided hours of fan use.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Burnes, Worley Walden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Writing Instrument.
Patent for a writing instrument for writing on stacks of carbon paper, which need heavy pressure to show on all the pages.
Date:
November 2, 1909
Creator:
Dyches, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 4, 1905
Creator:
Slayton, Charles E. & Zellner, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center Foot for Cultivators
Patent for "an improved center foot or standard which is adapted to be readily attached to and detached from a beam or beams of a cultivator adjusted thereon and adapted for the attachment of a shovel, plow, or sweep of any kind required" (lines 8-15).
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Greathouse, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic System for Automobiles.
Patent for a pneumatic system for automobiles for braking.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Wallace, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proportioning Weighing-Machine
Patent for a proportioning weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Cardwell, Robert M. & Tholen, John Ben.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Purifying Apparatus.
Patent for a water purifying device for use in water distribution systems, which mixes the water with a chemical salt and then takes it into a settling basin where mud and such sink to the bottom, leaving pure water on top which is let out for distribution.
Date:
March 17, 1908
Creator:
Fender, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Gas-Lighter
Patent for a gas lighter that is designed to be durable and reliable, with an improved method of controlling the supply of gas to the burner.
Date:
March 25, 1902
Creator:
Ruebel, C. A. Ernst
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for "attachments for planters, cultivators and the like" (lines 8-10) "whereby the implement will be permitted to yield to uneven ground" (lines 11-12).
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Waters, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
Date:
September 11, 1906
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton Berry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Secondary Electric Clock
Patent for a secondary electric clock. This invention uses a predetermined movement of the clocks hands thereby preventing any abnormal movement in a secondary clock controlled by a master clock. Illustration included.
Date:
May 28, 1907
Creator:
Guthrie, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Alarm
Patent for a fire alarm. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Andrews, Bolivar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Holder.
Patent for a meat holding device which consists of a pan with joints in the bottom and a series of hooks to pierce the meat to hold it in place while cutting it.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Jackson, Cyrillus Quitman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp
Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Martin, Delia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Grader.
Patent for a road grader, which will "excavate a ditch at the side of a road, and distribute the dirt from said ditch at a proper gradient upon the road" (lines 11-14).
Date:
January 31, 1911
Creator:
Fender, John Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw
Patent for a drag saw. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Thompson, Everett Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Orden, Charles Van
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner
Patent for an oil burner. Illustration included.
Date:
October 6, 1906
Creator:
Butler, Albert Carroll
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manure-Spreader
Patent for a manure spreader that can be connected to the back wheels of a farm wagon. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Echols, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History