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Apparatus for Aging Whisky.
Patent for a barrel for heating and aging whiskey, which accelerates aging time. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1891
Creator:
Halligan, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Support.
Patent for improvements in book support: "book are held in an upright position on the shelves" (lines 9-10).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Muir, James Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for a car replacer for train cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Roark, Trever Cardail
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improvement to churns. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel churn structure embodying a pair of oppositely reciprocating dashers mounted in a common churn receptacle or body and operated from a single crank wheel" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Burdeaux, Carey E. & Burdeaux, Charley W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher
Patent for a device used to make butter by churning cream.
Date:
September 7, 1916
Creator:
Davis, Thomas C.
System:
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Cleaner for Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved cleaner for seed cotton, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Hart, Edward
System:
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Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter
Patent for improvements in the design and construction of combined cultivators and planters.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Wright, Samuel Winfield
System:
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Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved combined planter and cultivator. This design has for its object "to facilitate the planting of seed and the cultivating of plants, and to promote convenience in adjusting the machines for the different kinds of work. The invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 21-27).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Shannon, Thomas Brandon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "is to provide a planter which may be used as a cotton-planter or other small-seed planter, the various parts being so arranged that the number of grains planted in a hill may be regulated as desired, while the depth of the furrow may also be regulated in accordance with the requirements of the case" (lines 8-15).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Davis, Joseph Green
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton-chopper meant to be the most simply constructed. The hoes are attached to a rotating cylinder in the center of the frame, and the hoes rotating is what chops the cotton.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Hopkins, Benjamin F.
System:
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Crank-Pin-Box Connection.
Patent for "improvements in the connections of single-acting pistons of compressor-engines and other engines of like character with one common crank-pin of the main shaft where two or more cylinders and pistons are employed." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H.
System:
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Curtain-Pole Remover
Patent for a curtain pole remover that allows the user to remove or put in place curtain poles without climbing on anything.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Adair, Lulu N.
System:
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Disk Plow.
Patent for a revolving disk plow that pulverizes the soil. The plow is especially designed to prepare the soil for cotton and cultivating between rows of crops. It has a tongue, a cross-bar with a sloping edge, spindles set at an angle to the cross-bar, disks mounted on the spindles, a double scraper for the disks, a gage-wheel, and a pivoting and locking lever on the tongue.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Singleton
System:
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Disk Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in disk plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1898
Creator:
Campbell, Singleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dog Attachment for Logging-Cars, &c.
Patent for a new dog attachment "for logging cars, sleds, and wagons, &c., [...] which will securely retain logs on a car, sled, or wagon and also readily release the same for unloading when required" (lines 9-13), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Hudgens, George Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelop-Seal.
Patent for an envelop seal composed of a metal piece with two arms, which are threaded through a hole in the envelop and pressed down into the sticky gum surface on the inside of the envelop flap.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Bennick, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Arm.
Patent for an improvement to adjusting rifle barrels and holding those adjustments in place. Includes illustrations.
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Alston, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bailing-Presses.
Patent for an improved bailing press consisting of "a novel arrangement of levers, connecting-bars, and cords, in combination with the follower and windlass, whereby the follower is worked in the downward direction for pressing, and in the opposite direction for elevating it to recharge the press, by the said windlass" (lines 5-11).
Date:
January 2, 1872
Creator:
Randolph, Jeremiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compound Tools.
Improvement in Kitchen-Utensil for lifting pots, kettles, plates, and as a means for holding a device for mangling meats.
Date:
December 5, 1876
Creator:
Mayfield, Samuel B.
System:
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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "an improved cotton-press, which is mainly devised for use on smaller cotton-plantations for baling smaller crops in a very convenient and rapid manner, with considerable economy in power and hands." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 24, 1874
Creator:
Koehl, William
System:
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Improvement in Dumping-Cars.
Patent for improvements to Dumping-Cars used for loading locomotives with wood or coal, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1879
Creator:
Johnson, Stephen.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth Scrapers
Patent for improved earth scrapers, the class of which are " mounted on Wheel and provided with slatted carriers" (pg 1). This earth scraper has a novel system that allows the machine to be turned around and still used where other machines cannot do so (pg 1).
Date:
August 27, 1872
Creator:
Smith, Amroy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.
Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scale-Beams.
Patent for "the movable weight used on scale-beams; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the weight to slip over the scale-beam, and with a roller, upon which the weight rests or is suspended, in combination with a locking device." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History