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Rope-Clamp (open access)

Rope-Clamp

Patent for a rope clamp for plungers used in cotton presses. Illustrations included.
Date: August 14, 1911
Creator: Cameron, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drawing Board (open access)

Drawing Board

Patent for a drawing board. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: McAnelly, Ernest Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Conveying and Packing Device. (open access)

Cotton Conveying and Packing Device.

Patent for a cotton conveying and packing device for use in cotton gins.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Cameron, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener (open access)

Sash Fastener

Patent for a new and useful Sash holder and lock to "provide a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may be applied to either the upper or lower sashes of windows in general use at the present time without materially injuring them and without requiring the aid of a skilled mechanic" (line 10 - 15).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Tuitte, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Scraping Plows (open access)

Device for Scraping Plows

Patent for a device for scraping plows. Illustration included.
Date: June 14, 1904
Creator: Pluck, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Apparatus. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in “gas-machines in which the gas is generated from calcium carbid; in which the gas will be thoroughly washed before passing to the distributing-pipe, thus affording a pure white light, and further to provide a means for running off coal-tar that may gather on the top of the water in the machine.” (Lines 9-18) Illustration is included.
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Metzger, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1904
Creator: Allgood, Walton P. & Allgood, Joseph P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in a link-guide support "pivoted to the underside of the car, the link-guide pivoted to the front end of the support, the spring arranged between the guide and the support, the yoke secured to the car, and the spring supported by said yoke and bearing against the link-guide support" (lines 1-6).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Wash, Thomas Henry & Wash, Nathan Robert Hodge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auger. (open access)

Auger.

Patent for a new and improved auger. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a shank provided with a conveying-screw and the cutters at the lower end of the screw, the sides of the cutters being extended beyond a vertical line drawn across the edges of the screw, and a tube or casing enclosing the screw and connected at its lower end with the cutters, said tube being of less diameter than the cutters and arranged within the outer sides thereof" (lines 56-64).
Date: August 23, 1887
Creator: Tevebaugh, Henry Clay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Curtain Fastener. (open access)

Carriage Curtain Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved curtain fastener for carriages. This design is "an improvement upon that particular form of curtain-fasteners . . . in which a sleeve or barrel having a rotary and sliding movement on a spring-encircled shank or post is provided with a wing or projection for effecting the connection of said sleeve or barrel with the eyelet or grommet of the curtain . . . which will effectually prevent the accidental disengagement of the curtain" (lines 18-29).
Date: July 12, 1881
Creator: Paschal, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide. (open access)

Insecticide.

Patent for a compound to kill insects, formula and instruction on how to mix the ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date: August 27, 1889
Creator: Smith, Byrd
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Plow. (open access)

Wheel-Plow.

Patent for improvements in wheeled-plow by adding inner and outer guide to the bent axle and an adjusting device to the stop-plate; these additions enable the plow adjustment process effortless. Illustration is included.
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: Reuss, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tree Protector. (open access)

Tree Protector.

Patent for a new and improved tree protector. This design "provide[s] the means whereby fruit-trees, ornamental trees, and other trees may be protected against the ravages of the cutting-ant and other crawling insects" (lines 35-39).
Date: February 28, 1882
Creator: Hornung, August & Fuos, Adolph Hermann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Threshing-Machine. (open access)

Improvement in Threshing-Machine.

Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date: February 9, 1869
Creator: Fuos, Matthias
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Thrashing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Thrashing-Machines.

Patent for "new and useful improvements on machinery for thrashing various kinds of grain, whereby the work is performed in a very rapid and perfect manner, without impairing the straw." (lines 28-32) Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: September 13, 1870
Creator: Fuos, Matthias
System: The Portal to Texas History