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Stamp-Vending Machine (open access)

Stamp-Vending Machine

Patent for improvements in stamp vending machines. "To improve the construction of coin-operated vending-machines and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one designed for selling postage-stamps and capable of operation only by a coin of the proper denomination and adapted when properly operated to feed a stamp to the operator." (Lines 9-17) Illustration is included.
Date: December 10, 1901
Creator: Fender, John Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gas-Release Packer. (open access)

Automatic Gas-Release Packer.

Patent for automatic gas release packer that uses constant pressure regulated by spring-controlled valves for better control when lifting oil out of wells.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Cummings, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bailer. (open access)

Bailer.

Patent for improved bailer for deep wells (e.g., oil wells), cheaper to use and manufacture, with a better delivery gate and improved method for triggering gate closure upon bailer withdrawal.
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Swartz, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grapple. (open access)

Grapple.

Patent for improving grapples for regaining tools, particularly those that can be hidden and submerged.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: James. C. Ginter.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Holder. (open access)

Door-Holder.

Patent for a new door holder that is designed so that it will not press down the carpet pile if it is used to hold open a door in a carpeted area. It also is designed to hang on the key or handle of the door when not in use and is big enough that someone would not accidentally stow it in their pocket if they took the key.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Lanning, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Stop and Holder. (open access)

Door Stop and Holder.

Patent for an invention that relates to door stops and holders, with the object to limit the swinging of the door when opened and will also hold the door open when it is desired to maintain the same in a open position.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Newsom, John Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Line Spooler (open access)

Wire-Line Spooler

Patent for a machine designed to spool wire. It is meant for assisting in oil well drilling operations
Date: March 28, 1919
Creator: Robinson, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for Boll-Weevil Exterminator. Aims to provide a novel and improved apparatus for gathering the boll weevil and squares by air suction to catch insects and pests.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Harrison, James H.; Hall, Samuel E. & Gholson, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for an improved rail joint that utilizes an interlocking system, thus eliminating the need for connections using nuts and bolts, resulting in a smoother, continuous rail.
Date: July 17, 1917
Creator: Luker, Luther V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Actuating Mechanism (open access)

Churn-Actuating Mechanism

Patent for a churn actuated mechanism that is operated by means of a rocking chair.
Date: October 9, 1914
Creator: Jones, Erastus T. & Stanton, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that can either be used independently or as an attachment to cultivators.
Date: September 22, 1914
Creator: Jones, Charles F. & Jones, Erastus T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a planter which distributes seeds from the top of the seed hopper rather than from the bottom, allowing the operator to see that it is distributing seeds properly.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Maddux, Jesse D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevating and Discharge Apparatus. (open access)

Water Elevating and Discharge Apparatus.

Patent for an automatic water discharge apparatus for wells that can be used with the standard pulley and bucket setup.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Harper, William L. & Harper, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Fender (open access)

Grain-Fender

Patent for a grain fender to be used as an attachment to a grain table. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Dean, George A. & Hall, Samuel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a construction which will prevent "access of objectionable matter to the churn-body" (lines 14-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 3, 1900
Creator: Hargrove, Kincheon W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup-Spur. (open access)

Stirrup-Spur.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in stirrup spurs, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Coleman, Thomas G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaft-Support. (open access)

Shaft-Support.

Patent for improvements in harnesses through the accommodation of "varying positions of the animal with respect to the shafts or thills, so as to remove all strain from and upon the shafts and the saddle, while at the same time effectively supporting the shafts and preventing the slipping of the same up and down upon the sides of the animal."
Date: October 26, 1897
Creator: Coleman, Thomas Gardner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unicycle Road and Racing Sulky. (open access)

Unicycle Road and Racing Sulky.

Patent for a one-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, with illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Coleman, Thomas Gardner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by using a crown-wheel attached to one of the ground-wheels of the chopper. When the ground wheels impart motion to the crown wheel, which in turn communicates motion to the pinions of the shaft. This shaft drives the two sprocket-wheels; the sprocket wheel that located in the rear portions of the crank-shaft imparts motion to the crank-shaft, which drives the vertical choppers. Illustration is included.
Date: May 12, 1891
Creator: Baggett, Neil Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one of the shoes shall pass through the longitudinal slot in the shoe" (lines 19-32).
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Piston Engine. (open access)

Balanced Piston Engine.

Patent for a new and improved balanced-piston engine. This design "relates to that class of steam or other engines which are constructed with two pistons receiving the pressure in opposite directions, each connected with cranks set at opposite positions, whereby the strain occurs simultaneously in opposite directions upon the crank-shaft and balances the same within its bearings, and thus obviates great friction on the journals and thereby economizes power" (lines 7-15).
Date: February 15, 1881
Creator: Peebles, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spinning-Wheel (open access)

Spinning-Wheel

Patent for "an improvement in domestic spinning wheels; and it consists in the combination of parts whereby the spindle or whirl is supported from above so as to hang down within the operator's reach, and is made to constantly revolve at the same time that the whirl is moved from and toward the operator" (lines 12-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Church, Joshua G.
System: The Portal to Texas History