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Conveyer.
Patent for the invention of a new conveyor, designed to simplify handling sacked grain.
Date:
March 26, 1912
Creator:
King, Marion A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a new improvement in cattle guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker.
Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Adkins, Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle
Patent for an axle. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Price, George T. & Knight, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date:
October 3, 1893
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date:
January 10, 1893
Creator:
McDade, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Buncher.
Patent for a new and improved cotton buncher. This design utilizes a wheel that "is to press down the plants and weeds that are to be destroyed, so that the plows, whether used along with the wheel or afterward, will cover them up with fresh earth, and thus assist in destroying them, and at the same time cultivating the plants to be retained and facilitating the subsequent thinning process" (lines 62-68).
Date:
January 16, 1883
Creator:
Goodin, James Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton-cleaner that has the flue leading from the gin to the condenser. It is an improvement previously granted to the inventor (No. 506,134), where "dust-laden air will be effectually prevented from passing through the cleaning drum of the cleaner and mingling again with the cleaned cotton which is fed to the condenser" (lines 16-20).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow and Pulverizer.
Patent for a combination plow and pulverizer, designed for the purpose of improved plowing and sowing of seed, with illustrations and explanations.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Curtis, W. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Valve and Cap Tool
Patent for a combination valve cap and stem used to ease the process of deflating pneumatic tires by eliminating the need to keep track of a separate cap piece when removing the valve core, including illustrations and instructions for use.
Date:
May 7, 1918
Creator:
McComb, William Perry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Lock.
Patent for an improvement in chain-locks. The improvement locks one end of a log chain to a car so that it cannot be accidentally released.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Clarkson, Jay Caleb.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Valve-Cap and Tire-Deflator.
Patent for a device which serves both as a cap for a tire valve and a tool for letting air out of said tire valve.
Date:
March 8, 1921
Creator:
McComb, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash.
Patent for a window sash, which can have window panes installed in it without the use of putty.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Perkins, Wallace P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf Turner.
Patent for a new and improved leaf-turner for sheet music. This design consists "of a rack having attached guides, the horizontally-slidable rods arranged in said guides, one above the other, the leaf-turning fingers carried by one end of said rods, the elastic cords connected with the other ends of said rods for retracting the fingers, devices for holding the rods against the tension of the cords, and a finger-piece for successively disengaging said holding devices" (lines 56-64).
Date:
July 6, 1886
Creator:
Richards, Augustus, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a weed turning attachment for plows, which is adjustable to different size weeds.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Baxter, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Shucking and Shelling Corn
Patent for improvements in the design and construction of machines for shucking and shelling corn.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Folding and Compressing Cotton Batting.
Patent for a new and improved cotton folder and compressor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a table provided with a series of transverse rolls of the same size, a reciprocating carriage mounted on the rolls, and a pair of super-imposed feeding-rolls arranged in line with the carriage, of a base arranged at the end of the table and provided with two opposite pairs of standards, the pair nearest the end of the table having vertically-opposite rolls, and the other pair of standards having a single roll, and a series of transverse feeding-rolls mounted on the base" (lines 46-57).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for a type of insecticide for cotton and vegetable plants. Particularly effective for use against the "boll-weevil" of cotton plants.
Date:
May 26, 1903
Creator:
Bourlon, Eugene A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator or Bulletin
Patent for a bulletin that can be used in street cars to display station or street names. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Barnes, Ned E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tool-Holders for Grinding
New and valuable Improvement in Tool-Holders, which are designed for holding tools in contact with the periphery of a grindstone.
Date:
May 2, 1876
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sawing-Machines.
Patent for a new and valuable sawing-machine is combined and, "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the vibrating beam, vertically-sliding block, and flanged support," (pg. 3) e.g...including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1873
Creator:
Westmoreland, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.
Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bucket Strainer.
Patent for a well bucket strainer, which strains the water as it is pumped out.
Date:
December 20, 1910
Creator:
Clay, Willim F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History