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Corn Harvesting Machine
Patent for a corn harvesting machine. "This invention relates to corn-harvesting machines of that class which are provided with cutting apparatus for severing stalks, with carrying apparatus for conveying the stalks in a standing or upright position to the point of discharge, with binding apparatus for tying the stalks into bundles" (lines 8-14). Illustration included.
Date:
October 23, 1906
Creator:
Tilson, William Henderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Pippin, John William
System:
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Caurbureter for Explosive-Motors
Patent for a carburetor for explosive motors designed with a measuring chamber for liquid hydro-carbon and a mixing chamber to regulate the amount of liquid hydrocarbon used to enrich the body of incoming air. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 23, 1909
Creator:
Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System:
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Closet-Cistern and Valve Therefor
Patent for "a cistern which needs no valve to start the siphon to work and to construct a valve which can be operated by a rod which runs up through the supply-pipe, thus doing away with the stuffing-box for a rod for operating the valve" (lines 11-16).
Date:
April 23, 1901
Creator:
Wilkes, George W.
System:
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Bicycle.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
System:
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Armored Tread for Pneumatic Tires
Patent for an armored tread pneumatic tires to protect from punctures. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Sims, Bona
System:
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Bicycle-Frame.
Patent for a new and useful bicycle frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Mills, Virgel H.
System:
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Combined Cattle-Guard and Halter.
Patent for a combined cattle guard and halter, which prevents cattle from breaking through a fence while allowing them freedom of movement.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Owens, Delona D. & Steele, Joseph J.
System:
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Band-Cutter
Patent for band-cutters “designed for facilitating the cutting of bale-bands” (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Manly, James S.
System:
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Corn Husker and Chopper
Patent for a corn husker and chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph, Sr. & Leek, William H.
System:
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Book-Support.
Patent for improvements in book support: "book are held in an upright position on the shelves" (lines 9-10).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Muir, James Alfred
System:
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Coffee-Pot.
Patent for a coffee pot "wherein the water is forced to percolated through a body of coffee or tea held in a holder or receptacle near the top of the vessel." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Royer, Lemon S.
System:
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Combination Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a tool that combines pincers, a hammer head, jaws, etc., to be used for fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Rubarth, Lee
System:
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Adjustable Grate Attachment.
Patent for an adjustable grate attachment that is meant to be used with open grates. It prevents "the falling of heated coals therefrom; also to provide for extension of the grate vertically to facilitate making of a larger fire; and further, to provide an attachment which may be used in regulating the draft to the grate proper" (lines 15-20).
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Hutton, Milton Calhoun
System:
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Band Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved band stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in band-stretchers in which a windlass, crank, and ratchets operate in conjunction with a sliding clamp; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a device with which the ends of a band may be drawn together and held for the purpose of lacing" (lines 15-21).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph A.
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Farley, John C.
System:
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Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses
Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
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Churn.
Patent for an improved, strong, durable, and simple churn that produces butter quickly and with much use of power. It has a slide rest with a rotary driving spindle on one end and guide pulleys on the other end, a slide-block that slides on the end of the slide rest, a turn-peg with a ratchet-head on the slide-block, a pawl, and a chord that attaches all these parts.
Date:
October 23, 1894
Creator:
Roark, Calvin M.
System:
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Buckle Attachment.
Patent for a buckle attachment for buckles that do not use riveting, sewing or other fastening, "and when so placed together, and the strap inserted and buckled, the whole is as firmly held together as if riveted, sewed or fastened with any of the ordinary methods" (lines 13-16).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
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Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
System:
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Churn-Power.
Patent for an improved construction design for churn power that "may be readily employed in connection with any ordinary vessel serving as a churn body, and which will effect a rapid production of butter" (lines 12-15).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Taylor, Marion M.
System:
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Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua & Lowrey, Andrew Stephen
System:
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Baling-Press
Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, in which considerable power ma be exercised without the use of complicated machinery, and which shall be rapid and effective in operation" (lines 9-14).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the crossed levers, the bail extending over the same, the spring secured to and extending between said levers, and the latches carried by said levers" (lines 3-6).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Bonner, Whitmill J.
System:
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