Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator which automatically feeds carbid to the generator and in which the gas generated is washed within the bell.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Nunn, John W. & Griffin, Thomas D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Connecting Arch For Cultivators (open access)

Connecting Arch For Cultivators

Patent for connecting arch for cultivators. This invention controls multiple cultivators gang. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1904
Creator: Schulz, Ernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk Attachment for Chairs (open access)

Desk Attachment for Chairs

Patent for a desk attachment for beds or chairs for which any seated article of furniture can be turned into a desk and adjusted forward or vertically for comfort.
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Hutton, Milton C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling press for hay that is meant "to provide a press and suitable power for operating the same, and to so construct said press as to double the capacity of the ordinary pres, that is to form two bales at one time, the press being operated by the same power; and, furthermore, to provide means for conveniently transporting the same when desired" (lines 10-17).
Date: August 29, 1893
Creator: Harrington, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rule and Square. (open access)

Combined Rule and Square.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Combined Rules and Squares which makes it "possible to form a rigid straight rule or one or more rigid squares" (lines 24-25), including illustration and instructions.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Grossman, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turbine Wheel. (open access)

Turbine Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved turbine wheel. This design eliminates water friction and alleviates pressure on suspended buckets, causing them to last longer.
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: Hallenbeck, Matthew L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watering-Trough. (open access)

Watering-Trough.

Patent for a valve that controls the flow of drinking water from a reservoir or tank into a trough. It can be operated by domestic animals and automatically shuts off when they are finished drinking.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Plow (open access)

Listing-Plow

Patent for a new listing plow that is "cheap and simple construction and readily adjustable to form wide or narrow beds and to be used in bedding of cotton or corn" (lines 11-13).
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Leatherwood, Calvin Nathaniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Walking-Planters (open access)

Improvement in Walking-Planters

Patent for improvements of a new walking planter where the design is much improved to that of the cotton planters. The new improvements of the walking planter are much safer because of the hopper that is in the new and improved equipment, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1877
Creator: Brown, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "the cylinder or body, the flaring bottom rim or hoop provided on its inner surface with suitable screw-threads, and also having on its lower peripheral portion diametrically-opposed lugs or projections, the perforated bottom pieced provided with suitable threads upon its peripheral portion, the upper curved or arched guide-arm having a central perforation and provided with screw-threaded ends having shoulders bearing against the upper side of the bottom of the bucket, said ends also passing through perforations" (lines 39-50).
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Van Hook, John Lloyd
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Powers

Patent for improvement in horse-powers through gravity and tread-power of a farm animal, for use as a power source for farm equipment, with illustration.
Date: August 30, 1878
Creator: Blain, John Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Shoe (open access)

Planter Shoe

Patent for a planter shoe. Illustration included.
Date: August 16, 1910
Creator: Pogue, Steward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter. (open access)

Seed-Planter.

Patent is for a seed planter that plows and seeds at the same time.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rack for Holding and Exhibiting Rolls of Goods. (open access)

Rack for Holding and Exhibiting Rolls of Goods.

Patent for a new and improved rack. This design consists in "[t]he rack comprising the sills, the crossed bars secured thereto and to each other at their intersecting parts and forming triangular sides, said crossed bars having the projecting ends, the cross-slats connecting the crossed bars and arranged in the angles thereof, and the extension comprising the inclined bars, the short crossed bars secured at right angles thereto, and the slats connecting the bars at the angles formed thereby, the said bars being detachably bolted to the projecting ends of the inclined bars of the rack" (lines 16-28).
Date: August 26, 1890
Creator: Chapman, Luna F. & Montgomery, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plumb Level (open access)

Plumb Level

Patent for a plumb level. Illustrations included.
Date: August 20, 1912
Creator: Brooks, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History