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Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeders for Thrashing-Machines.
Patent for improvements in the design of band-cutters and feeders for thrashing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 15, 1878
Creator:
Andrews, Henry K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a stalk-cutter that employs rotating breaking members to uproot the stalk and cut it rather than simply cutting the stalk and leaving the roots underground.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Buchanan, Amos. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Breaker
Patent for breaking cotton stalks. This device is designed to break down cotton stalks while sparing stalks of growing young wheat. Illustration included.
Date:
October 27, 1908
Creator:
Shaw, Drury P. & Tackaberry, W. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "a stalk and weed cutter, the combination, with the oblique side knives, of the transverse slotted bars, springs, and the guide and pressure bars having vertical arms passing through the slots of the transverse bars, and connected to said springs . . . [and] the runner-frame, having oblique wings and front and side knives, the standards and bar, cross-bars, cross-springs, and adjustable pressure and guide bars" (lines 80-92).
Date:
July 17, 1883
Creator:
Cook, Emmanuel Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cotton-Baling Tamper.
Patent for improvements in steam cotton-baling tamper by automating the tamping process and the feed of cotton to the baling hopper. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Walker, Jackson Lamar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lace-Rack.
Patent for an improved design for a lace-rack, or a container to stow away lace boards. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 3, 1912
Creator:
Jones, Laurence E.
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
Track and CarrIage for Swing-Scaffolds.
Patent for a track and carriage for swing scaffolds used by painters that can move horizontally across a house without taking down the scaffold and has adjustable lengths.
Date:
January 7, 1908
Creator:
Kersey, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Handle And Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tool handles and tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Lantz, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Andrews, Henry K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Preserving
Patent for a process for preserving corn and is done without canning it.
Date:
May 29, 1906
Creator:
Melton, Ephraim B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud-Scraper.
Patent for a mud scraper attachment for vehicles, which prevents mud from getting in the wheels of the vehicle on muddy dirt roads.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Whitaker, Ira Paschal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Switch
Patent for a telephone switch. "This invention relates to switches for telephone and more particularly to shifting devices for short-circuiting certain classes of lines, and the object is to provide a system of cutting off communication in what are called 'party' lines" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Mount, Timothy S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like
Patent for a balancing device for cultivators or the like.
Date:
April 21, 1903
Creator:
Dwight, Frances M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale
Patent for automatic computing and weighing scale.
Date:
April 21, 1903
Creator:
Mount, Timothy S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Header and Loader
Patent for grain header and loader with improved structure and adjustable height, designed to be fitted onto and powered by a moving wagon for the efficient harvesting of crops, including illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Sullins, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Force-Pump.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient double action force pump that has one cylinder and one plunger. It also equalizes the opposite strokes of the plunger, and pushes water into the common chamber with both strokes.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Thompson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal.
Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
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
End-Gate Fastener
Patent for improvements in wagons' and similar vehicles' end gate fasteners, of which provide a firm lock and are readily and quickly disengaged as needed, with illustration.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Harvey, Thomas David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "relates to machines for dropping or planting cotton, corn, or other seed, and has for its object to provide a device embodying simplicity, convenience, cheapness, and efficiency. To this end it consists in certain improvements in construction and operation of the same" (lines 12-18).
Date:
March 13, 1883
Creator:
Lowder, John Ellis
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
Sash Fastener
Patent for Sash-Fastener. "My invention relates to sash-fasteners for holding and locking a window-sash either in an open or closed position." (lines7-9). With illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Williams, Harry I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash-fastener. This design consists "[t]he combination, [of] an angle-bracket having an opening produced in its horizontal member wider at its top than at its bottom, and an essentially yoke-shaped bar passed through the said opening, [and] a thumb-lever hinged in the vertical member of the bracket, extending over and parallel with the horizontal member of said bracket, and a lip integral with the under edge of the lever, concavo-convex in cross-section, and capable of entering the opening in the bracket and contacting with . . . the yoke-like bar" (lines 7-19).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Miller, Charles H. & McDonald, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History