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Boll Weevil Catcher
The objective of the invention is to improve to catching and destroying boll weevils with a device that is easily attached to a cultivator. This device includes "receptacles filled with an insect destroying liquid." (lines 23-24).
Date:
July 5, 1921
Creator:
Ploch, Alex
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rail-Anchor and Tie-Plate
Patent for a combined rail anchor and tie plate. The purpose of the invention is to combine the aforementioned devices to prevent rails from cutting into the ties, overturning, and spreading.
Date:
January 24, 1919
Creator:
Johnson, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Crossing Signal.
Patent for a railroad crossing signal. The device is created so that the highway signal can be automatically raised or lowered at the crossing by a passing train.
Date:
December 13, 1921
Creator:
Ridout, Horace J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for improvements in liquid fuel burners that can handle intense heat and can be mass-produced.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Hosek, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie Tamping Device.
Patent for a tie tamping device to be used in building and repairing railroads.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Johnson, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Structure
Patent for portable support stand for suspension weights. Made foldable for ease of use in outdoor farm work. Including illustration.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Neblett, Cyrus W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thread-cutting Tool.
Patent for a thread cutting tool developed to efficiently thread bolts, rods, and other parts without damaging the ends of the thread, includes illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Newman, Malcolm A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Digger.
Patent for a peanut digger that will go underneath the peanuts, cutting off the tap roots, which preserves the soil because "the soil does not lose the nitrogen contained within the roots." (lines 25-27)
Date:
June 11, 1918
Creator:
West, Wade H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for wire stretcher that will secure a wire as it is stapled to a post.
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Kasprzyk, Leon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swingletree Clip
Patent for providing an improved form of swingletree clip which is simple in construction, may be cheaply made and in which the eye which connects the hook to the clips swiveled so that the hook may rotate and thus there will be no change of disengagement between the draft connections and the swingletree.
Date:
August 14, 1917
Creator:
Leasman, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue Scraper
Patent for a new and improved boiler tube scraper which will allow for easier insertion and removal, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Lorenz, William Adam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cactus Burner.
Patent for a cactus burner that burns spines off of cacti using a liquid fuel burner. Document explains the different parts of the cactus burner and why it is an improvement over current ones in use.
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Ploch, Alex
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy Wrench
Patent for a buggy wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
September 20, 1904
Creator:
Ware, Richard M. & Carroll, James Malcum
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine
Patent for a cotton chopping machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Lynn, Walter Hugh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning And Condensing Machine
Patent for cotton cleaning and condensing machine. "This invention relates to cotton cleaning and condensing machinery; and it has for its object to proved simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive machine for cleaning the cotton fiber and forming it into a bat as it leaves the gin in preparation for the baling press" (9-15). Illustration included.
Date:
October 17, 1905
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. This invention is designed to plant seed in hills at any desired predetermined distance apart.
Date:
October 6, 1903
Creator:
Coble, William H.; Coble, Robert L.; Johnson, Bennett & Johnson, N. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to enable the slack of a wire to be readily taken up at a point between the posts and capable of enabling a wire to be readily stretched to the desired tension" (lines 12-17).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
May, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella-Holder.
Patent for a new and useful simplicity umbrella holder for "use on sulky-cultivators of that class in which the seat-support is constructed to form a crotch" (line 9-12).
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Holcombe, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Injector-Burner.
Patent for injector burner that provides rapid vaporization by maximum heating the walls of oil chamber and also has improved nozzle with oil outlet pipe. It has a detachable burner nozzle and maximum spread of flame is given by the burner-tip.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for a sulky plow for three horses, which stops the plow pole from rubbing the middle horse.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Marx, Otto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton.
Patent for improvement in process of baling cotton is to “heat the cotton-bat at a point between the gin-condenser and the pressing-rollers, exposing the heated bat while incompact to the action of dry air, then compress the cotton-bat into bale form.” (Page 2, lines 39-43) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 29, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols.
Patent for a fan attachment for umbrellas or parasols, including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Beseler, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Press.
Patent for roller-presses that form cylindrical bales from cotton-bat delivered from the gin-condenser to the press. The invention is meant to make the structure more compact and lighter, with greater strength and capacity; to relieve friction; to automatically change pressure as the bale increases; to form the bale without a core; and to improve various aspects of completing the bales.
Date:
April 29, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Press
Patent for improvements of roller presses with speed and "to form a cyndrical bale of the cotton-batting" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 10, 1900
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History