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Lamp-Turning Mechanism
Patent for head lamps that the drivers can turn while driving to light the road.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Pouch Catcher
Patent for a mail pouch catcher. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Top.
Patent for a wind up top, which has flan blades on top that spin the opposite direction from the top.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Reed, Thomas N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheep-Shears
Patent for sheep shears. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Ascue, Elbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator attachment which is designed to be "a guard to protect the young growing crop from being covered by dirt when it is being cultivated." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1894
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson; Griffin, Richard Frankling & Speer, Henry Alson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History