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Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an Acetylene gas generator that allows waste to be emptied from the machine without losing any gas.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Finley, Jesse T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Suspending Attachment for Bedsteads.
Patent for a canopy-suspending attachment for bedsteads, which is adjustable to different size beds and folds up when not in use.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Skinner, Miles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Square.
Patent for a carpenter's square, which has a table of rafter cut measurements, a table of measurements in inches, and the standard carpenter's measure table.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Bailey, Louis Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator and cuts the rows of cotton evenly.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Ashlimann, Adolf E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill
Patent for a drill. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Tye, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cycloidal Chariot.
Patent for a new and improved cycloidal chariot.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Evans, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Drying Apparatus
Patent for an improved cotton dryer which uses heat from steam to dry wet cotton more effectively with simpler construction and lower cost.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Evans, Alva A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including "an attachment for a gin feeder to separate cotton from the burs during the gin operation...especially adapted for use upon cotton containing an excess amount of bolls" (lines 13-16). The improvements include an air suction device to remove cotton from the burs before it enters the gin.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Huntsman, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beet-Harvester
Patent for removal of beets from ground and transfer to carrying device.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Mathison, Andrew Alois.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator designed to prevent from being overcharged with carbide. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Finley, Jesse T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Holder.
Patent for a cigar holder with improved clutching that prevents the cigar from slipping out of the holder when it becomes moist. The clutches are constructed to allow it to hold cigars or any size or shape.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Mathison, Andrew A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casket-Support.
Patent for Casket-Support. "An object of the invention is to provide a support of simple and durable structure adapted to be manipulated to support the casket at an elevated position with relation to a floor or which may be folded whereby the casket may rest flat upon the floor." (line 3)
Date:
April 2, 1918
Creator:
Kinnison, Martin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for improved construction and function of wrenches. Improvements include a more simple, durable, and inexpensive method of construction and arrangement of the adjustable jaw as to allow a single hand to hold and adjust the wrench simultaneously.
Date:
July 29, 1913
Creator:
Ashliman, Adolph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Gathering Cotton.
Patent for a cotton gathering machine, which picks the cotton bolls off of the plant while being driven through a field.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Edge, William Warren & Campbell, Knotley Fonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Maize Header and Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved hand-operated implement designed for cutting heads of Kafir corn or maize in a more simple and efficient manner, including illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Grindstaff, Isaac S. & Johnson, Luke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Header and Ensilage-Cutter.
Patent for harvesting machine that simply and efficiently cuts heads off stalks to save seeds and also cuts stalks close to ground for for use for ensilage or to be left as fertilizer. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1915
Creator:
Welch, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetlyene Generator
Patent for an imporived acetlyene generator, "wherein the carbid container or receptacle will be elevated clear above the surface of the water contained in the generator when said receptacle is not discharging into the water."
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Michael, Mack W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Level.
Patent for a track level, which is used to measure the lay of the land that a road is being built through.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Young, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harrow Structure
Patent for improvement in harrow structure allowing for them to be attached to an ordinary cultivator in lien of cultivating shovels.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
McIntyre, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Hanging Machine.
Patent for improvements in paper-hanging machines to "provide a device of this class of simple and improved construction adapted to hold a roll of wall paper, to guide the paper over a trimming device and under a paste applying device, and said machine being also provided with a cutting device for severing the strip of paper after the same has been applied to the wall" (lines 10-18); it includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Phillips, Jay V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ticket-Distributer
Patent for improvements of Ticket-Distributers in telephone offices and similar establishments.
Date:
August 13, 1918
Creator:
Mendeck, Fred C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweep-Wing Attatchment for Plows
Patent for adjustable sweep wings that attach near the shovel or blades of a plow, and which will vary the throw of the soil as it is dug by the plow.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Casstephens, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bedstead.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in folding bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 15, 1898
Creator:
Evans, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for a rotary engine. The engine is devised for driving a motor vehicle. Illustration included.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Winn, Frank B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History