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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
Seed-Planter.
Patent for improvements in seed-planter by using different sizes of disks to construct a hopper that can be revolved, in which it can be adapted to plant cotton, corn or other seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thompson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Straw Cutter
Patent for a rectangular box with attached heavy blade for cutting straw.
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Ross, George. W. & Winebrener, John A.
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
Roll-Film Attachment for Plate-Cameras
Patent for an improved roll-film plate that lets different parts of the film be exposed in the focal plane.
Date:
December 8, 1913
Creator:
Whatley, Riley V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for plows. This design "has relation to devices for guiding or directing shovel-plows, sweeps, or cultivator-plows, and thus release in a great measure the strain upon the arms of the plow[person] consequent upon directing the plow in its proper course; and it consists in the detailed construction of a device or attachment of that class" (lines 12-19).
Date:
August 29, 1882
Creator:
Welborn, Wisp J. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Remedy For Chicken-Cholera.
Patent for “medicines for the treatment of chicken-cholera” (lines 12-13) which includes ingredients, instructions and dosage. Ingredients include Cayenne pepper, May-apple root, and blue vitriol (sulphate of copper). The medicine may be used as a preventative or as a cure.
Date:
March 17, 1885
Creator:
Ross, George Washington & Ross, James Dewitt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding Saddle.
Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "relates especially to devices intended for use in coupling or connecting girths to saddles in stock countries or elsewhere where it is desirable to quickly adjust the saddle onto a horse . . . in drawing [a] strap to tighten the girth the inner portion, by reason of the friction of the parts passing through the rings, becomes rolled or creased up and straightened out, and loosens the girth in a short time . . . [the] invention seeks to overcome [these] objections" (lines 12-36).
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Newman, John W.
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
Flower-Pot.
Patent for a new flower pot with metal siding and a removable bottom, including illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Simpson, McDuff
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter.
Patent for a feed cutter that has a casing that makes up tilted side walls with transverse openings, a reciprocating knife that sits between the casing walls, a link that connects the knife to the casing, a feed trough, and a staple that engages the trough.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Butler, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Bin.
Patent for a flour-bin that keeps the flour and meal separated and sifts them separately. This patent has "a novel formation of a stirrer to prevent the banking of the flour or meal in the bin, and which can be cheaply manufactured and when in use will offer a minimum amount of resistance to the contents of the bin agitated thereby" (lines 16-21). The bin is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Patton, James Monre
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributor
Patent for "a machine of this class which may be used interchangeably for planting different kinds of seeds-such as corn, peas, cotton, or other seeds-or fertilizing material, and which shall be simple in construction, durable, and easily manipulated" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 31, 1889
Creator:
Gallaway, John Tyler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon and Lace Show Cabinet.
Patent for a new and improved showcase for merchants. This design obviates "the necessity of frequent handling of the goods . . . and much time is saved in the exhibition of them, and in taking account of stock, and the cabinet aids in selling the goods, as they are exhibited by it to a greater advantage than when laid out upon the counter in boxes or kept in boxes placed in an ordinary show-case" (lines 80-87).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Lowry, Lucien P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for "a quilting-frame with equalizing bar and means for adjusting the same so that the quilting-frame shall at all times be held in a level position" (lines 8-11). This invention has a new method for suspending the quilting-frame and for supporting the rail where the traveler operates.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Chenoweth, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Bending Machine.
Patent for a machine used to bend or shape metal pipes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Rutledge, Caleb C.
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
Non-Freezing Connection for Tanks
Patent for a valve for water tanks that prevents the water from freezing by taking in water from the central portion. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Miller, Charles Hector & Bunnell, Walter Alex
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
Pipe System for Discharging Waste Water from Refrigerator-Cars.
Patent for a pressurized pipe system designed to discharge waste water from melted ice used to reduce car temperature including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Applewhite, James A.
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