Attachment For Horse Powers (open access)

Attachment For Horse Powers

Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level and Try Square (open access)

Combined Level and Try Square

Patent for a combined level and try square tool. Illustrations are included.
Date: June 18, 1909
Creator: Blackwell, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: Allen, George F.; Allen, Charles D. & Martin, Richard W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Training Horses. (open access)

Appliance for Training Horses.

Patent for a new and improved appliance for training horses. This design "consists, essentially, in a leg-halter composed of chains or ropes connected by a common ring, or otherwise, and connected with gyves or shackles to encircle the pastern of each leg, a yoke or frame placed upon the withers, or forward or back thereof, and provided with a clamp, and a band passing through the clamp and down to one of the shackles, or to the horse's leg, the other end being carried to a convenient point to be passed by the trainer or attendant" (lines 9-20).
Date: August 10, 1886
Creator: Dodge, Israel Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Fender. (open access)

Cultivator-Fender.

Patent for an improvement to cultivator-fenders that prevents rocks and other debris from being throws about while plowing.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Calk, Alonzo E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vulcanizing Device. (open access)

Vulcanizing Device.

Patent for a vulcanizing device for use on tires.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Robbins, James M. & Crew, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a valve for use as part of a tank filling apparatus, which is easy to attach.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: McKnight, Samuel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect or Worm Destroyer. (open access)

Insect or Worm Destroyer.

Patent for an insect and worm destroyer that is secured to the frame of a gang or cultivator and both cultivates and exterminates insects, worms, and the like as it moves down each row of plants.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Martin, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheeled Scraper. (open access)

Wheeled Scraper.

Patent for improvements on the scoop-like body of a wheeled scraper. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 24, 1909
Creator: Robbins, John Proctor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Straightening Machine (open access)

Wheel Straightening Machine

Patent for wheel straightening machine. This invention is designed for straightening light or heavy wagon wheels when the spokes become loosened and the wheel is excessively dished" (9-11). Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Mayse, Jordan Stewart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheelwright-Machine (open access)

Wheelwright-Machine

Patent for a hand-operated wheelwright machine designed for drilling the tires of a vehicle for means of holding tire retaining bolts.
Date: August 20, 1907
Creator: Robbins, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine. (open access)

Steam-Engine.

Patent for a two cylinder steam engine.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Putman, Lewis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for "stalk cutter which may be readily attached to any standard from of plow, without requiring any changes or alterations in the construction thereof "(lines 17-20), including instructions and illustration.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Rumbaugh, Charlie Marvin & Jones, Melvin Commodore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packer for Silos. (open access)

Packer for Silos.

Patent for a new packer for silos, "...which may be assembled with any silo of standard construction, to carry out the packing operation" (lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Westbrook, John Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler. (open access)

Milk Cooler.

Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design consists in "the combination, with the body or frame provided with water-troughs, of the jacketed cans having the upper ends of their jackets extending into the troughs, and an air-collecting device arranged . . . to collect and direct the air against the exposed jackets" (lines 14-21).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Dodge, Frances A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tie. (open access)

Tie.

Patent for a railway tie that has a stronger attachment to the rails than other models.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Wade, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Urinal. (open access)

Urinal.

Patent for a urinal that is worn by women who have incontinence that is better attached to the waistband.
Date: November 16, 1909
Creator: Sherman, Mattie L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph and Telephone Insulator. (open access)

Telegraph and Telephone Insulator.

Patent for a telegraph and telephone insulator, which prevents the wires from slipping out of the insulator by the use of grooves placed in the holder.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Copper, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
System of Road Drainage. (open access)

System of Road Drainage.

Patent for a new and improved system of road drainage. This design is "especially . . . for use on dirt and other roads, and adapted to quickly dry the road after a heavy rainfall without disturbing the road-bed. The invention consists of a drain arranged longitudinally under the road-bed and provided with outlet-pipes placed suitable distances apart, and each adapted to be closed at its outer end, and branch air-pipes also extending from the said drain and adapted to be connected with an air-pump for pumping the air out of the drain" (lines 10-21).
Date: December 2, 1890
Creator: Mitchell, Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. Illustration included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Matthews, Joseph William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a farm gate, which can be opened from a vehicle and stays open until a second operation is performed to close the gate.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Matthews, Joseph William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop (open access)

Envelop

Patent for an envelop. Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Robertson, Fannie B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farming Implement. (open access)

Farming Implement.

Patent for a multi-functional farming implement that has various interchangeable tools.
Date: January 13, 1903
Creator: Smith, William Birton.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus. (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design "consists, essentially, in a series of vessels surrounded or enveloped by fibrous material, dipping into a water-vessel above, and serving to maintain a constant supply of water to the exterior of the vessels through capillary action, the water being caused to pass down in such quantity as to drip from the bottoms of the vessels and collect in a second tank supplying a second series of vessels in the same manner, and finally to collect in a suitable vessel below, intermediate filtering apparatus being provided or not, as required" (lines 9-20).
Date: January 1, 1884
Creator: Dodge, Frances A.
System: The Portal to Texas History