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Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wrench
Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Clay, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Trains
Patent for an automatic stopping mechanism for trains. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Mingo, William, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Truck
Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Franek, Jakob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 16, 1907
Creator:
McLeod, Norman J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch Indicator
Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
Date:
October 23, 1906
Creator:
Coffin, Edward F.; Shaw, Carey & Green, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brooder
Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Becker, August B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Staining Wood.
Patent for a “paint or stain, which, when applied, will harden on the common woods of commerce, render them durable and smooth, and give them the exact appearance of black walnut” (lines 15-18).
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Gloger, Anton F., Jr. & Gloger, Joseph P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for a new and improved clevis. This design "is to provide a clevis with a series of attaching-loops whereby the line of draft may be changed as circumstances may require, to bring the line of draft to either side of the plow-beam, or above or below the same, and to provide a clevis with a centrally-located attaching-loop, to be used where a direct or central draft is needed" (lines 11-18).
Date:
January 26, 1886
Creator:
Dunn, Henry Frankling
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined.
Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Muray, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Ventilation.
Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1879
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter and Cultivator
Patent for...
Date:
April 11, 1883
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Hive.
Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1878
Creator:
Walton, George Slaughter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Hoe
Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1915
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroad-Beds.
Patent for a railroad-bed design that is used to support railroad tracks.
Date:
August 19, 1913
Creator:
Alley, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Bench.
Patent for a collapsible bench that improves the structure of general work benches by folding together when not being used.
Date:
June 15, 1920
Creator:
Danyluk, Iwan.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 30, 1886
Creator:
Walker, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-seed to be forced through it" (lines 84-94).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Andrew S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Holly, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators
Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."
Date:
July 27, 1878
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella and Sun Shade.
Patent for a new and improved (sun) umbrella. This design utilizes an adjustable metal frame that can be attached to a piece of equipment (e.g., a tractor) or worn comfortably by a person. This allows for hands-free use while being protected from the sun and/or rain.
Date:
February 8, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer.
Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Binkley, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History