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Belt Fastener (open access)

Belt Fastener

Patent for a belt fastener. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Stenzel, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator, which can be adjusted to different widths and depths of rows.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Kilpatrick, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Dinkins, James Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.
Date: December 3, 1901
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off Valve. (open access)

Cut-Off Valve.

Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "the valve-seat of [the] slide-valve, the entrances of whose steam passages form seats for auxiliary valves pivoted to [the] yoke on a rod, whose stud occupies said slot in upper portion of [the] arm pivoted to [the] pendant from [the] main valve-rod and terminating in [the] tappet, the same being combined with the adjustable stops" (lines 55-63).
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Moore, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for improvements to press for making bales of hay.
Date: April 21, 1885
Creator: Chidester, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaning Machine.

Patent for an improvement for cotton-cleaning machines that removes harmful debris from cotton before passing the cotton into the cotton gin. The improvement uses brushes and air blowers to collect and divert debris.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Davison, Israel D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Combined Plow and Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for an improved combined plow and fertilizer-distributor that better feeds the fertilizer from the hopper or container to a depositing boot, from which the material is discharged into the furrow formed by the plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Hurlbut, Milan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Axle (open access)

Buggy-Axle

Patent for a buggy-axle that has the hub of the wheel so arranged as to rotate with the stub axle of the device, holding the wheel in place.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Elliott, Claude B. & Kurtz, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Suspender for Scissors. (open access)

Improved Suspender for Scissors.

Patent for a means to suspend scissors by a pulley method. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 15, 1868
Creator: Kuttner, J. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Teeth for Cotton-Gin Saws. (open access)

Improvement in Teeth for Cotton-Gin Saws.

Patent for new useful improvement of the cotton-gin saws that consists of the dress or shape of the teeth, includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1873
Creator: Oglesby, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Brace and Angle-Bar for Vehicle-Bodies. (open access)

Combined Brace and Angle-Bar for Vehicle-Bodies.

Patent for braces and angle bars on vehicle bodies that improves the brace to hold buggy beds together with illustration that shows improvements. "When these braces are secured on the bed they will prevent the adjacent parts of the bed from splitting, spreading or dropping down and they will hold the ends and sides, as well as the bottom of the bed securely in place" (lines 61-66).
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Kilpatrick, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail Bag Fastening. (open access)

Mail Bag Fastening.

Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Roosevelt, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Auger. (open access)

Well-Auger.

Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Hutchins, Charles N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter Clasping Device (open access)

Letter Clasping Device

Patent for a letter clasping device. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Elliott, Claud B. & Loggins, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Level. (open access)

Level.

Patent for a spirit level, which measures more accurately than other models and allows quicker calculation of where the wood needs to be moved to be level.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Brittain, Thomas H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insectifuge Fertilizer for Cotton. (open access)

Insectifuge Fertilizer for Cotton.

Patent for an insectifuge fertilizer for cotton, which promotes the growth of the cotton plant and prevents boll weevils and cotton worms from attacking cotton plants by making them distasteful to the insects through the application of a mixture of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of soda, sulfate of copper, and crushed decorticated cotton seed.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: White, Reuben G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards. (open access)

Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.

Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: Roosevelt, Lillian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Train-Indicator (open access)

Train-Indicator

Patent for a train indicator that displays numbers or letters that can be easily changed.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: Elliott, Claud B. & Clappart, Emile E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Raising Journal-Boxes. (open access)

Means for Raising Journal-Boxes.

Patent for raising journal-boxes on a railroad car to easily renew the brasses or do other necessary tasks.
Date: June 8, 1916
Creator: Hathaway, Charles B. & Elliott, Claud B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil Attachment (open access)

Pencil Attachment

Patent for device that continuously applies mucilage to the penil without rendering it sticky.
Date: December 26, 1916
Creator: Elliott, Claud B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow with an adjustable pitch and share.
Date: October 1, 1912
Creator: KilPatrick, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor. (open access)

Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "has for its object to provide a motor of the class . . . that shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, cheapness, durability, and general efficiency; and to these ends [the] invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 17-23).
Date: September 30, 1884
Creator: Chilton, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Collar. (open access)

Stock Collar.

Patent for a new and improved stock-collar. This design is "for the purpose of positively and unmistakably identifying cattle and other like stock, and to obviate the necessity of marking and branding cattle, &c., which shall be light, simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective for the purposes designed, easily attached to and removed from the necks of cattle, &c., which shall be cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, and not liable to become lost, misplaced, broken, or detached by the animal in its efforts to release itself" (lines 16-26).
Date: April 6, 1886
Creator: Roberts, John Harrison
System: The Portal to Texas History