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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
Air Intake Device. (open access)

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
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
Automatic Reversing Mechanism (open access)

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
Boll-Weevil Machine. (open access)

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
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
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
Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter (open access)

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
Corn-Shuck Chopper. (open access)

Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on top of a stationary knife-blade." (Lines 7-19) Illustrations are included.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Pluck, James
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
Coupling. (open access)

Coupling.

Patent for a coupling to be used by military vehicles, unique in its "simplicity, rapidity in attachment and detachment, strength and durability" (lines 19-21).
Date: May 24, 1921
Creator: Speece, Russell. W.
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
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
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
Foot-Rail and Tonneau Truck Attachment for Passenger-Cars. (open access)

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
Gun-Barrel Cleaner. (open access)

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
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
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
Insect-Destroyer (open access)

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
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
Lint Packing Appratus (open access)

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
Lock. (open access)

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
Mowing Machine (open access)

Mowing Machine

Patent for a mowing machine. This invention is designed to attach to mowers of various sizes in order to divide material along a proper line of swath and guide it over the cutting-bar.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Weynand, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil Sharpener and Holder. (open access)

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