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Cotton-Boll Picker
Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Hewitt, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Threshing Machine.
Patent for a cotton boll breaking mechanism and a means for breaking cotton bolls which are not opened sufficiently for the cotton to be picked.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Cass, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cutter. This design consists in "the combination [of] the two-part shaft having bearings in the frame and supported on the wheels of [a] removable wheel, secured upon the end of [a] portion and having the spokes and cups at the ends thereof, arranged to operate between the adjustable plows" (lines 62-68).
Date:
May 31, 1881
Creator:
Smith, Joseph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a machine "for the purpose of cleaning the cotton before it is ginned, and thus free it from foreign substances and produce a better grade of cotton than that which is ginned without being previously cleaned" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Tucker, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Shade.
Patent for a new and improved cotton picker's shade. This design "consists of a portable frame having an adjustable and detachable awning or shade . . . for the use of cotton-pickers and others whose vocation obliges them to work in the field during the hot season" (lines 19-23).
Date:
June 14, 1881
Creator:
Arnold, William Noah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for "a crate for packing and transporting bottles of such material and such form of construction as will present a minimum liability to breakage of the contents." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Riviere, Richard Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator, which has a movable beam for use as a straddle row cultivator that allows the draft animal to walk on either side of the rows of plants.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Nicholson, Matthew H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
January 15, 1907
Creator:
Nicholson, Matthew Harris & Rosenbaum, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator for cotton farming meant to be strong and durable as well as light and inexpensive to construct; to make it convenient to adjust the shovel beams for different distances between rows; and to support the shovel-beams in an elevated position so that they do not contact the ground and to allow them to be lowered as needed.
Date:
August 12, 1902
Creator:
Comstock, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dasher for Churns.
Patent for a more buoyant and compact churn dasher.
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Wood, Edmund L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Badge
Patent for a design for an ornamental badge celebrating the Emancipation of slaves by Abraham Lincoln.
Date:
October 6, 1906
Creator:
Whitney, Junius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Quilting-Frame Stand.
Design patent for a quilting-frame stand that has U-shaped legs leading up to a horizontal stand with an ornate frame.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Overton, Benjamin F. & Bryant, Louis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Colter Brace
Design patent for colter-brace for plows.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Darby, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable and Adjustable Roller.
Patent for a new and improved hand-truck. This design consists in "the combination, with the sections . . . arranged parallel to each other and adapted to have a combined longitudinal and lateral motion with reference to each other . . . rollers located upon the under side of said sections, and the spurs on the upper faces at each end, of the braces . . . located, respectively, upon the lower and upper faces of the device and diagonally across the same, and pivoted at each end to said sections . . . the openings provided on said sections, and the dowels on said sections" (lines 68-80).
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Delany, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable-Blade-Connecting Device For Tools.
Patent for detachable blade connecting device for tools, the importance of which lies in the fact that this tool provides "simple and efficient means for detachably supporting interchangeable blades which may be quickly removed and replaced" (lines 16-19).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Grimes, John Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attaching Horseshoes.
Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage the toe-plate, the bits, half-bands, and clamping-bolts" (lines 61-65).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Mayow, Daniel L. & Castle, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Converting Motion.
Patent for a device that converts "regular rotary motion into irregular reciprocating motion" (lines 15-16) which includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 26, 1886
Creator:
Shellenberger, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cutting Boiler Tubes.
Patent for a new device for cutting boiler-tubes. This design "is to be adjusted a distance from the head sufficiently in excess of the thickness of the tube sheet to prevent injury to the latter. The device is then inserted into the end of the tube, with the head abutting against the outside of the tube-sheet. By turning the screw the wedges may then be drawn toward each other, thus forcing the block carrying the cutter outward. The device is now to be turned by the shank alternately with feeding the cutter outward until the tube has been cut through, after which it may be readily removed" (lines 75-88).
Date:
April 18, 1882
Creator:
Franklin, James Johnson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Fastener
Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Price, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Operator.
Patent for a device that is a means of mounting a train car door by which it may be easily opened or closed, and especially easily fixed when stuck.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism
Patent for a driving mechanism. The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient mechanism for transforming reciprocatory motion into rotary motion. It can be adapted in order to connect to other mechanisms.
Date:
January 16, 1906
Creator:
Allison, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car
Patent for a dumping car to be used on railways for the purposes of dumping gravel and soil and other such materials.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Womelsdorff, Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Excavator
Patent for excavator.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Story, Ela D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Nailless Horseshoes.
Patent for a detachable nailless horseshoe that consists of a shoe-plate with front and side wings, links attached to the front wings, half-bands that are attached to the side wings, and lugs.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Mayow, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History