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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Bartels, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bookbinder's Gluing-Press.
Patent for a bookbinder's gluing press, which can be used for books of varying thicknesses.
Date:
October 11, 1910
Creator:
Giesecke, Julius; Nebergall, Ben F. & Oheim, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Badge, Button, or similar article.
Patent for design for a badge, button or similar article demonstrating the logo for the National Anti-Tipping League.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
National Anti-Tipping League, Inc.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill.
Patent for improvements in drills by providing “a frame which may be readily attached to any suitable support and wherein the drill-spindle may be engaged for operation by a common form of chest-brace.” (Lines 9-13) The frame would enable the stock-rest to adjust in proper positions to receive different thicknesses of stock.” (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn - Husking Machine
Patent for improvements to the corn-husking machine with a butt-end cutter for the ears of corn. (lines 9-10)
Date:
July 3, 1900
Creator:
Werner, Anton, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker.
Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind Engine.
Patent for a new and improved wind engine. This design "relates to an improvement in wind-engines, in which a vertical circular frame having a wind-wheel is covered to the half by a hemispherical roof supported by posts" (lines 8-12).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.
Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar-Fastener.
Patent for providing a durable structure for fasteners to be used on horse collars for effectiveness and quick manipulation. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Wallace, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Butter-Container.
Patent for a butter container that holds butter and protects against direct handling until it is served. This is inexpensive, two-piece and very easy to clean.
Date:
August 12, 1913
Creator:
Eiband, Ernst A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Operated Lift Mechanism
Patent for a wheel operated lift mechanism designed for agricultural implements with wheels which can raise the frame of the agricultural implement for easy access to the wheel. This tool is adjustable to raise or lower the frame for easy access to the wheel to disconnect it.
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Altgelt, Herman E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new design for a wrench that is a "simple, efficient, and inexpensive one adapted for operating on nuts, pipes, rods and other objects." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date:
May 8, 1900
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wardrobe
Patent for a Wardrobe that is easy to assemble, dust proof and inexpensive construction
Date:
June 17, 1913
Creator:
Pape, Bruno L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Cutter.
Patent for a vegetable cutter which is to be used as a grater.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Wittenborn, Edmund A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for an improved wheel tire. The improvements to a conventional tire include multiple hinged springs which limit the movement of the wheel in two directions when contact is made with the ground. The wheel includes shoes placed concentrically around the wheel that provides shock absorption, better traction, and overall stability.
Date:
April 12, 1919
Creator:
Schmidt, Oscar J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence.
Patent for wire fencing using wooden and iron posts to be more readily seen by cattle, including illustration.
Date:
November 8, 1853
Creator:
Meriwether, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design consists in "the sectional spiral vanes of the wind-wheel, having a flange on the outer edge, widest at the end of the vane on which the wind first takes effect, and inclined to the plane of the vane for deflecting the wind thereon . . . [and] [t]he brake, having guide-pulley and combined with the pull-cord, tail-vane, and the wheel-shaft, said shaft having a friction-wheel" (lines 13-22).
Date:
February 24, 1885
Creator:
Benoit, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
Date:
September 5, 1871
Creator:
Coreth, Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Draw-Gages.
Patent for improving the manner in which leather straps may be cut and avoid slippage.
Date:
June 25, 1878
Creator:
Tays, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor
Patent for "novel features of construction and combinations of parts" in tractors to ensure a steady, even pace of travel and allow for traversing uneven landscape while maintaining a level setting, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 23, 1918
Creator:
Altgelt, Herman E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.
Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Otto, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traction Engine.
Patent for an improved version of traction engine with ambulatory wheels that improve the design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Altgelt, Herman E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Braune, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History