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Cut-Out.
Patent for a telephone wire cutout for use in manually grounding the telephone line during a storm.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
Smith, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Row Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a double row stalk cutter, which has rotating stalk cutters.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Peden, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Byars, Edgar.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Action Pump
Patent for "double-action submerged force-pumps which can be operated by any suitable power, but particularly adapted for operation by windmills provided with variable gearing...simple in construction and strong and durable and in which there are no parts which can be disarranged during operation and from which all valves may be removed without disturbing the pipe and which will maintain a continuous flow of water during operation."
Date:
October 21, 1902
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a press for baling cotton and other fibrous materials.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Mount, T. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Machine
Patent for a baling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Bryan, William Silous
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney-Jacket
Patent for a chimney jacket construction for naval vessels. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1912
Creator:
Newell, Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling
Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Brandt, Olof Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator for carrying plows. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
Stovall, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calendar Clock
Patent for calendar clock. Illustration included.
Date:
February 26, 1907
Creator:
Woods, Jesse Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Administering Medecine to Live Stock.
Patent for for a device to efficiently administer medication to live stock.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Holliday, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Pole
Patent for a curtain pole. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Doyle, Edward S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn, which is run by a foot treadle attached to a wheel that turns the dasher in the churn.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Stagg, Frank E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1900
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard
Patent for a cattle guard to prevent cattle from treading upon railroad tracks. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Reed, Conwell P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Winding Machine.
Patent for a cloth winding machine, which measures cloth for cutting and then winds the rest of the bolt of cloth back up.
Date:
April 7, 1908
Creator:
Blythe, Edward Willey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Water.
Patent for a water-cooling apparatus composed chiefly of a subterranean cistern and a water-supply source.
Date:
May 20, 1901
Creator:
William J. Dossey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Cleat and Fastener.
Patent for "a simple and comparatively-inexpensive car-door cleat and fastener designed for use on cars for transporting cotton and other highly-inflammable merchandise and capable of effectually excluding sparks from the interior of the car and of preventing the same from entering between the edge of the door and the doorway." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1895
Creator:
Woodruff, Hawkins
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Brace.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead brace. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails, the end rails, and posts, of the hooks secured to the inner faces of said posts, the eyes on the inner sides of the side rails and located a slight distance apart, the wires secured to the hooks and passing through the eyes, the plates having openings, through which the wires pass and the screw bolt and nut connecting said plates" (lines 60-68).
Date:
December 29, 1885
Creator:
Durham, John William & Alexander, Winston Buchanan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for improvements to corn and cotton planters, including illustrations.
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Tedder, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupler that operates without someone having to go to between the cars. It is simple and compact.
Date:
February 27, 1894
Creator:
Calhoun, Cloud B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design "compris[es] a front rod and a back rod or spring united together by welding, said whiffletree having its ends rounded to form shoulders and provided with hooks fitting upon the rounded ends and prevented from slipping inward by the shoulders, and disks placed upon said rounded ends and attained thereon by swaging the latter" (lines 6-13).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Black, William Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design "compris[es] a front bar, a back rod or spring united to the front bar by welding, the ends of both said bar and rod being bent upon themselves and the parts welded together to construct an eye or opening, whereby both bar and rod are bent around the latter . . . a strengthening-piece placed between the front bar and the back rod or spring, and a casing secured to the back rod and adapted to hold the strengthening-piece in place" (lines 8-18).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Black, William Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design consists of a frame with tension wires "extending diagonally across the bed-frame to the side pieces thereof at points intermediate between the corner posts, and independent tension devices to which the ends of the wire are connected, whereby a longitudinal and lateral strain is exerted upon the bed-frame when the wires are adjusted" (lines 1-7).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Clowers, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History