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Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for a bale tie buckle made up of hooks that will not come apart under pressure.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Eddleman, Dudley E. & McFarland, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses
Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Woolery, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for a acetylene gas generator with an improved valve for sending carbide into the generator which is more efficient and cheaper to make.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Menczer, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat-Propeller
Patent for a boat propeller that runs more efficiently by turning in such a way that the load of water on the propeller is taken off when its blades are going up.
Date:
July 16, 1912
Creator:
Reames, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatically-Operated Forge
Patent for an automatically operated forge which dose not require an operator to keep the blower going and heats quickly.
Date:
July 12, 1910
Creator:
Dickey, Joseph H. & Roach, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Navigating Apparatus.
Patent for an aerial navigating apparatus with more details of combinations, construction, and presentation of parts.
Date:
July 25, 1911
Creator:
Flanagan, Henry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Heating and Illuminating Gas
Patent for an apparatus for manufacturing heating and illuminating gas. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Wynne, Milton P. & Wagley, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Davenport.
Patent for a davenport, which can be used as wardrobe, settee, or bed that includes a wider bed, extensions for head and foot rests, and a larger wardrobe door than previous models.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Hartshorn, Guy C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1899
Creator:
Bateman, Talbot O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Thresher and Cleaner
Patent for a cotton thresher and cleaner. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Blain, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Apparatus.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable coin-controlled apparatus that is "designed to indicate by the varying positions occupied by the spheres, the nature of a dream, the apparatus being designed primarily as a dream-revealer" (lines 17-20). The operator pulls a lever which forces the dice inside the glass container to move into holes. The operator reads a key on the outside of the device that indicates what he will dream.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top.
Patent for a new and improved carriage top. This design consists in "the combination, with a vehicle-seat, a series of top-supporting bows pivoted thereto, and a jointed brace having its lower end pivoted to the seat and its upper end to one of the bows, of a rigid operating-lever having its upper end pivoted to said jointed brace and its lower end adjustably connected with the seat, whereby the position of the lower end of said lever may be varied and the brace and top secured in any desired position" (lines 51-60).
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Goelet, Edward Buncombe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Operating Chair
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of dental operating chairs.
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc Lamp
Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Gaston, E. James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Oscillating Attachment for Street-Cars.
Patent for an improved anti-oscillating attachment for street-cars. It has a car truck, equalizing pivoting bars secured between the truck ends, cushions on either side of the bars, adjustable bolts that hold the bars in place, and springs between the bolts.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Chollar, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, in which considerable power ma be exercised without the use of complicated machinery, and which shall be rapid and effective in operation" (lines 9-14).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Printing Device
Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Barradall, Norborne D. & Bradley, Andrew Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "[t]he frame mounted upon sled-runners and provided with braces, draft pole, and knives, in combination with the rake having check-bar, the sliding bar, connecting bar, and lever, all co-operating" (lines 89-92).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Woodard, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pessary and Womb-Battery.
Patent for a combined pessary and womb-battery. It is inserted into a woman's vagina and is used to deliver medication "and to stimulate the genitals to a healthy and normal action both mechanically and electrically" (lines 11-13). The device is worn without discomfort and can be worn while pregnant.
Date:
July 7, 1896
Creator:
Keller, Martha Ellen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Inkstand and Pen-Rack.
Patent for a inkstand with a magnetized pen-rack. If the pen or pencil isn't metal, a metal sleeve is provided to put around the utensil so it can sit on the rack. There is a space for ink-wells, pen-boxes, and a space for advertisements. It is meant for customers to use in lobbies.
Date:
July 14, 1896
Creator:
Moyer, Herman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Display-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy-Drying Machine.
Patent for a machine to dry and pack chocolate more uniformly without need for attendants, including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1915
Creator:
Greer, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Converting Motor-Propelled Vehicles into Tractors.
Patent for a device which attaches a "tractor which can be used to draw plows, harrows, cultivators, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural implements" (lines 12-17) to motor vehicles, thus converting the motor vehicle into a tractor.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Wynne, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for bale-tie buckle to be used to secures bales of cotton specifically. This is used to increase the speed at which cotton can be secured while being ginned and compressed. This buckle can be reused multiple times.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History