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Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1891
Creator:
Williams, William Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Valve for Steam-Engines or the Like
Patent for a sliding valve for steam-engines or the like that is "simpler, less expensive, and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use" (lines 21-24) including an illustration and instructions.
Date:
June 8, 1915
Creator:
Williamson, Jason & Williamson, Elmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "consists in a frame which is adapted to be placed over the ant-hill, so as to surround the entrance thereto, and provided with parallel surrounding flanges or sides which converge to each other and lead to an exit-spout . . . [and] is to provide an ant-trap which is adapted to catch the ants both on their attempt to leave the hill or to return to it, whereby the entire colony may be exterminated" (lines 9-21).
Date:
January 4, 1887
Creator:
Wise, David
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
Mechanical Power.
Patent for motors “designed for running light machinery – such as well-pumps, churns, sewing-machines, washing-machines, &c.; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims” (lines 10-15) including instructions and illustrations. “These motors are simple, durable, and efficient, and are not likely to get out of order” (lines 72-73).
Date:
June 17, 1884
Creator:
Wise, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed planter, with illustrations. "The object of this invention is to facilitate the planting of seeds, and also to promote convenience in adjusting and operating the planter" (lines 22-24).
Date:
May 8, 1883
Creator:
Wise, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in washing-machines known as “roller and bed and it consists of a rubber-bed adapted to operate in conjunction with a rotatory rubber…….the bed being regulated by tightening screw-nuts upon the hooks which connect the springs with the end walls of said casing.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Wood, Commodore R.
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
Drive for Motor-Vehicles
Patent for the drives of motor vehicles, which provides the means to the front wheels can be driven by a motor without the interfering with the action of the steering wheel.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Woods, Arthur M.
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
Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins
Patent for mote boards for cotton gins that throw off bolls, leaf, trash, dust, along with other foreign material
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Wooldridge, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for an invention that improves mote boards for cotton gins by causing the "impurities and dust thrown off by the centrifugal action of the brush to be conducted away by a dust passage" (lines 19-22).
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Wooldridge, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planting Attachment.
Patent for an attachment to a seed planter for the purpose of planting peanuts. The device allows for efficient and inexpensive peanut planting by simply connecting to existing equipment.
Date:
June 11, 1918
Creator:
Wright, Melvin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History