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Lubricating Axle
Patent for a lubricating axle.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Birdwell, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airship that is equipped with gas bags to control the ascent and descent of the airship and make it float in case of landing in the water.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Bradshaw, John F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post.
Design patent for a fence-post that has a tapering post-body with a step series adjoining true cylindrical portions of gradually increasing diameter.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Motor
Patent for a water motor. This is an invention for a type of motor operated by tidal power.
Date:
October 20, 1903
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Reeling Apparatus
Patent for a wheeled spool for commercial construction and telecommunications wire.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse Watson
System:
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Canning Apparatus
Patent for canning apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
March 30, 1909
Creator:
Brown, William N.; Brown, Clyde V. & Brown, Lester L.
System:
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Ironing-Table.
Patent for an improved folding ironing-table that has "its top pivoted to the longer of two pairs of legs, the shorter pair designed to hold a cross bar which is adapted to support the table top about midway its length, when the table is opened and set up for use" (lines 18-22).
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Coleman, Robert Franklin
System:
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Combined Baling and Compress Machine.
Patent for a combined baling and compress machine for cotton gins, which makes bales that fulfill the rules of transportation companies on cotton bale density and is cost efficient enough for small gins to purchase.
Date:
June 8, 1909
Creator:
Crow, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lapel-Spring for Coats.
Patent for improvements in lapel-springs for coats and similar articles of clothing by using a loop-shaped spring and a rod or bar pivotally connected with or hinged to both ends of the spring. It will hold the lapels of a coat or similar garment in proper position. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Crow, Robert Dlouglas
System:
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Cotton Compress
Patent for a cotton compress. This invention "is to produce a compress which will make a condensed bale of the regulation shape and which can be operated faster than the common form of compress" (line 16-20) illustrations included.
Date:
June 16, 1903
Creator:
Crow, Robert Douglas
System:
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Cotton Press
Patent for a cotton press.
Date:
September 29, 1903
Creator:
Crow, Robert Douglas
System:
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Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for a cloth cleaning machine to "furnish bagging-reels, so constructed that the bagging can be conveniently unwound from the roll, measured automatically, and again wound into a roll" (lines 13-17).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
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Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for for a new cloth-measuring machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Chairs.
Patent for a fan that attaches to rocking chairs which turns one direction when the chair rocks forward and the opposite direction when the chair rocks backward.
Date:
May 21, 1907
Creator:
Dorris, Joseph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Operating Mechanism.
Patent for a new type of pump operator mechanism with a "novel mounting for the air compressing pump" (lines 18-19) and a more compact form. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 18, 1917
Creator:
Feagin, Luther W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heel-Sweep Brace.
Patent for heel-sweep brace "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments to cultivators for strengthening the heel sweep thereof and prevent the same from rocking upon the foot."(lines 15-19)
Date:
October 2, 1917
Creator:
Goodlett, Henry Jimison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a coupling for air-brakes, of the movable arm having the recess or socket, and the pivoted arm having the shoulder or offset adapted to fit the recess and provided with the [other] arm to direct the said shoulder or offset to the said recess when the coupling-arms come together, the said shoulder and recess forming the terminals of the air-pipes at the ends of the cars" (lines 92-100).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the draw-head provided with a flange upon one of its sides, ways for securing said draw-head in place and allowing it a longitudinal movement, an abutment which is secured to said ways upon one side, a hook which is pivoted in the draw-head on the side opposite to the flange, which hook is provided with a weight for keeping it normally closed, and which has a notch formed upon its pivotal end, and a latch which is pivoted to one side of the draw-head" (lines 64-74).
Date:
December 30, 1884
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a jointed rod which has its lower end fastened to one of the hooks of the coupling and its upper end fastened to a vertically-moving ring that slides upon the brake-rod, whereby the coupling hook can be raised upward and supported in such a position that it will not couple when the cars run together" (lines 14-20).
Date:
October 12, 1880
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Setting and Feeding Device.
Patent for a new and "useful Improvements in Saw Setting and Feeding Devices" (lines 5-7) including illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1900
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck
Patent for a conventional truck designed to lift heavy freight above the ground.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.
Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peach-Parer.
Patent for a paring device for peaches using prongs to hold and rotate the fruit while a blade pares the peach. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1859
Creator:
Hermans, Alva & Hermans, Mary E.
System:
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Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to provide a machine that will take the cotton as it comes from the gin and clean and condense it at one operation; and to this end the novelty consists . . . in an inclosing-shell having a foraminous drum revolving about an open-ended shell which has a longitudinal opening in its periphery, so as to remove the sand and dirt, and . . . in a foraminous drum revolving within a semicircular wire cage, whereby the cotton will be carried around in rolls on the drum and inside of the cage, so as to remove the leaf and trash" (lines 16-28).
Date:
August 9, 1887
Creator:
Hess, Daniel
System:
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