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Luggage-Carrier.
Patent for a luggage-carrier "particularly adapted for use in conjunction with motor cycles or similar wheeled vehicles" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Howell, Edgar A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1875
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E. & Shay, Samuel F.
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
Tube-Cutter.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive tube-cutter meant to cut boiler flues or tubes in order to remove or replace the tubes or flues. The tube cutter doesn't spread the tube and allows the tubes to be withdrawn through the holes after cutting them.
Date:
July 2, 1895
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, John James Kelsoe
System:
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Valve Operating Mechanism For Presses
Patent for valve operating mechanism for presses. Illustration included.
Date:
April 11, 1905
Creator:
Stuart, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Exterminator
Patent for an insect exterminator to be transported to and used within crop fields which separates insects from plants by means of brushes and kills the insects by depositing them into a pan containing liquid insecticide. Exterminator also includes a sprayer to deliver insecticide onto crops. Exterminator is designed to be pulled by draft animals.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Thompson, Everett Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Operating Mechanism for Presses
Patent for a valve operating mechanism for presses. This invention is meant to be an improvement of baling mechanism effecting the automatic regulation and control the motor fluids. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1903
Creator:
Stuart, John Marcus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a general lock but made especially for trunk locks. It adds a spring lock and preventative measures against lock picking.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Kirk, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism for Carburetors
Patent for a valve mechanism for carburetors that supplies fuel to the engine.
Date:
June 18, 1912
Creator:
Guthrie, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel. This invention is designed to keep dust and grit out of the axle point and nib. It has a wooden core sheathed in metal. Illustration included.
Date:
April 19, 1904
Creator:
Polk, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wind-Wheels.
Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Treadle.
Patent for a new and improved treadle. This design "has for its object to provide an adjustable pad . . . preferably formed of rubber, to the ordinary iron treadle . . . and may be detached therefrom, as desired. . . . whereby wear of the shoes is saved and cold feet will be avoided" (lines 10-24).
Date:
December 4, 1883
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for an animal trap, the unique elements of which are found in the "combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-17). Improvements include but are not limited to the addition of an open-ended case, a depressed platform and various links.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Ward, Robert Gillespie & Clayton, John Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Churns
Patent for propellers for churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Bolding, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for new and useful improvement in Skeleton Tillage-Plow.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Canty, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compond
Patent for “medical compound designed for the treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs” (lines 10-12).
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Rippetoe, Amasa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Hinton, Horace F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Shopper
Patent for "improved stalk-chopper for corn, cotton, or other stalks, where-in a reel or reels carrying longitudinal knives is supported and adjusted upon a frame which may be easily connected and disconnected from the running-gear of an ordinary wagon" (lines 14-20)
Date:
August 17, 1888
Creator:
Ferrel, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter and Mower.
Patent for a new and improved stalk-cutter and mower. This design consists, "with the shaft, having pulley and means . . . to rotate the same, of the pivoted links, the reel having its shaft journaled in said links and provided with the longitudinal cutters and with the pulley, the endless belt connecting the said pulleys . . . and the lever connected to the reel to raise and lower the same" (lines 9-17).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Knox, Washington Irvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Price-Tag.
Patent for an improved price tag that includes not only the price information, but also "at a glance a stock record and a cost record and provides space for making notations and writing other information" (lines 13-16) for the use of a store clerk's reference.
Date:
April 20, 1920
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton B.
System:
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Stock Indicator For Hat Boxes
Patent for stock indicator for hat boxes. Illustration included.
Date:
August 29, 1905
Creator:
Buie, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow
Patent for the design of a plow that can "overcome obstacles without injury to"(lines 14-15) to the machine. It also includes a new design for a plow foot spring, in addition to an element that allows the foot spring to be adjusted quickly by there operator.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Sanders, John T.
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
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