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Residue Crude Oil Burner (open access)

Residue Crude Oil Burner

Patent for a burner that burns gas manufactured from crude oil. Illustration included.
Date: August 22, 1905
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Follower For Barrels. (open access)

Follower For Barrels.

Patent for a new and useful follower for barrels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: Shanks, David Willis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Cleaning Machine (open access)

Fiber Cleaning Machine

Patent for a machine for removing the bark or husk and pulp from fibrous plants. This machine promises to be smaller and more efficient than earlier models.
Date: August 22, 1911
Creator: Vaughn, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter. (open access)

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
Flooring or Ceiling Jack. (open access)

Flooring or Ceiling Jack.

Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Holiman, William Moses
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Mold Board. (open access)

Plow Mold Board.

Patent for a new and improved plow mold board. This design "consists of a circular roll arranged in the mold-board near the point and covered with belting, which, in the forward movement of the plow, is revolved and carries the earth backward on an endless belt passing around rollers journaled in the end of transverse slots made in the mold-board, whereby, in the forward movement of the plow, the belt is revolved and the friction of the earth on the mold-board decreased and the plow scoured" (lines 17-28).
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Dahlman, Carl Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oval-Beveling Machine (open access)

Oval-Beveling Machine

Patent for a machine used to bevel the edges of metal plates. Illustrations included.
Date: August 22, 1911
Creator: Browne, Walter E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stamp-vending Machine (open access)

Stamp-vending Machine

Patent for Stamp-vending Machine
Date: August 22, 1916
Creator: Woodward, Charles H
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a new and useful quilting frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: Crawford, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal Railway-Tie (open access)

Metal Railway-Tie

Patent for a metal tie for railways. Illustrations included.
Date: August 22, 1911
Creator: McAnarney, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor. (open access)

Motor.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in motors, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1899
Creator: Garvey, Edgar Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot (open access)

Cultivator Foot

Patent for a cultivator foot. This cultivator foot is designed to be a new kind of inexpensive, simple, and efficient cultivator foot.
Date: August 22, 1922
Creator: Dawson, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin. (open access)

Cotton Gin.

Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Basom, Ransford W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Molding-Machine (open access)

Molding-Machine

Patent for a molding machine. Illustrations included.
Date: August 22, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Jacob L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.

Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
Date: August 22, 1871
Creator: Mather, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Instrument. (open access)

Dental Instrument.

Patent for a new and improved dental instrument "designed to be used for removing the enamel around the base of a tooth preparatory to crowning the same and may be also employed for the purpose of removing crowns from teeth" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1916
Creator: Hamilton, Arthur L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Stand. (open access)

Display-Stand.

Patent for the invention of a rack used to hold harness pads such that they can be readily removed from the racks.
Date: August 22, 1916
Creator: Dyer, Simpson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design calls for two u-shaped metal pieces, one narrower than the other, each with eyes at their ends. A metal rod, which doubles as a handle, threads the eyes, connecting the pieces and allowing for the two loops to butterfly; one car can be bound to each of the loops with a metal pin.
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Stopple, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shutter for Motion-Picture Machines. (open access)

Shutter for Motion-Picture Machines.

Patent for a shutter for motion picture cameras to eliminate flickering. Produced by stamping the device from sheet metal.
Date: August 22, 1922
Creator: Patureau, Arthur M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner. (open access)

Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner.

Patent for an improved mop and rubber holder meant to clean windows, walls, and similar surfaces. It is adjustable, and the operator can put the mop or the rubber on the end of the handle.
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Wiebush, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Seat for Automobiles. (open access)

Adjustable Seat for Automobiles.

Patent for the invention of adjustable seats for vehicles to provide a comfortable seating for travellers.
Date: August 22, 1916
Creator: Dedrick, John V.
System: The Portal to Texas History