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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
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
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
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle and the wheels, provided with the sleeves, one of which is provided with the spur-wheel of the reach bar secured to the axle, the sleeve mounted on the said bar and provided with the pinion, the arms secured to the sleeve, the curved rods adjustably secured to the arm, and the blades secured to outer ends of the said rods" (lines 8-17).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Jordan, Perry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Baugh, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improvements in cultivators and includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 24, 1883
Creator:
Wise, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved colter attachment for plows. This design "consists of a slicing colter or knife attachments to the mold-board, the object of which is to slit or cut the furrow-slice into narrow strips at the same time that it is turned up by the mold-board" (lines 7-11).
Date:
December 19, 1882
Creator:
Mann, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History