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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
Foot-Rail and Tonneau Truck Attachment for Passenger-Cars.
Patent for "an attachment for use within the tonneau of a passenger automobile" (lines 9-10) which includes a space-efficient foot rest "which can be utilized as a support for one end portion of a supplemental platform employed in the back portion of the tonneau when the vehicle is to be used for delivery services" (lines 12-16) including illustration.
Date:
June 11, 1918
Creator:
Balmos, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steering Attachment for Automobiles
Patent for a steering attachment for automobiles, more specifically automobiles of Ford. This invention helps to provide stiffer friction for the steering wheel which provides stability when the driver no longer has a grip on the steering wheel. This helps keep the steering wheel from veering off and stays on track.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Balmos, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a lock that was invented for house doors, outside doors, inner safe doors, and other similar doors. The lock is simple in construction and easily operatable for the user's efficiency.
Date:
September 8, 1903
Creator:
Bell, William E. & Brown, Francis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil Sharpener and Holder.
Patent for a device that is a pencil sharpener and a pencil holder, which can clip onto a coat pocket. The device is made from a small amount of sheet metal.
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Brucks, William Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Reversing Mechanism
Patent for an automatic reversing mechanism for cotton presses.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Insect-Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer in the form of an oven that can be placed on the ground in the rows between plants to kill insects. This machine has an added benefit of killing weeds, as well.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plunger for Baling Presses
Patent for a plunger for baling presses. This baling press is used for the baling of cotton, hay, and similar products through the "means for mounting and actuating the ram or plunger which reciprocates in the baling chamber" (14-16) Illustration included.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press
A press adapted for packing cotton (line 13).
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Lint Packing Appratus
Patent for a lint packing apparatus for collecting packing lint from a gin saw. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 13, 1910
Creator:
Cameron, George W.; Muennink, George & Muennink, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter
Patent for "a truck having operating mechanism changeable to either cotton or corn seeders and in combination therewith a hopper formed in sections, one of which is removable" (lines 14-17).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Droitcourt, Adam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Tire Setting and Cooling Machine.
Patent for a tire setting and cooling machine.
Date:
April 10, 1900
Creator:
Horn, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Intake Device.
Patent for an air intake device for automobiles and other internal combustion engines. Provides novel and improved heated air supply for carburetors during cold weather. Adjustable to admit unheated air in various proportions according to the air temperature and weather.
Date:
January 29, 1918
Creator:
Hornburg, C.A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Retaining Ring.
Patent for "a new and useful Retaining-Ring" (lines 5-6), including illustrations.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Hornburg, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber
Patent for shock absorbers.
Date:
November 28, 1916
Creator:
Hornburg, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Boll-Weevil Machine.
Patent for a pneumatic device to remove and crush boll weevils and their associated bolls on cotton plants, in the ground around cotton plants, and in the air.
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Jones, Henry A. & Harrell, Billington C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drawing Board
Patent for a drawing board. Illustration included.
Date:
February 28, 1905
Creator:
McAnelly, Ernest Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun-Barrel Cleaner.
Patent for a gun-barrel cleaner unique in that it cleans and oils. It also provides an adjustable handle-stop which avoids damage to muzzle end of shotgun by inexperienced users. Adjustable in order to clean different gauges.
Date:
November 14, 1922
Creator:
McCanna, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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