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Leveling Instrument
Patent for leveling instrument. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Akins, Henry King
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher.
Patent for railway mail service bag-catchers "to provide a catcher which will remove a bag from a supporting-crane and transfer it automatically into the mail-car while the train is in motion" (lines 13-16).
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Elliff, Josiah C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum-Pan
Patent for "vacuum-pan having improved heating-sections and an improved form of discharge-chamber" [lines 9-11].
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
Ribaud, George Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Knocker.
Patent for a new and improved stalk knocker. This design consists in "the combination, with the running-gear of a wagon, of a frame-work mounted thereon and provided with vertically-adjustable hangers at its rear end carrying stalk-knockers and their shaft, a diagonal adjustable brace connecting the hanger and the frame-work, and a driving-pulley formed in sections, having spoke-embracing lugs, and connected to the knocker-shaft by means of a belt" (lines 10-18).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Allen, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Saw Mill.
Patent for a new and improved portable saw mill. This design "is to produce a portable saw-mill of such cheap and economical plan as can be built and repaired in almost any locality. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts" (lines 12-17).
Date:
April 1, 1884
Creator:
Rodgers, William Crittington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-File
Patent for new improvements in Paper-Files, particularly to that class of paper files which are formed of wire that will allow for the removal of any one paper from the file without the necessitating the removal of any other papers from the file.
Date:
September 1, 1914
Creator:
Buie, Daniel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock, which stops the nut from rotating.
Date:
December 8, 1908
Creator:
Brown, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Building Wire Fences.
Patent for a simple and effective tool used for building wire fences that is "a nail holding and driving device, a measuring attachment, and a wire cutter" (lines 12-14).
Date:
May 15, 1894
Creator:
Highsmith, Lewis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for a plow attachment for turning the subsoil while the main plow opens the furrow that can be adjusted to any depth desired and attached to all types of plows.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Tunnell, Wilson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Scoggin, James Lee & Dean, John Rowe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful plow attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Pool, Benjain L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tag-Fastener
Patent for "improvements in tag-fasteners...which can be applied to [a] package with great rapidity and which will not easily become detached" (lines 6-19) including illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1914
Creator:
Walshe, Denny Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Gate
Patent for gate for rail and train tracks.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Burress, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate Bar
Patent for a grate bar.Illustration included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Wilderspin, Anderson & Earnest, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar.
Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.
Date:
June 28, 1910
Creator:
Wilderspin, Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun Muffler
Patent for a gun-muffler. This design if for use with fire-arms to muffle the discharge sound. Illustration included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Childress, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Device
Patent for a hoisting device. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Sims, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hen's Nest.
Patent for an automatic gate or door for a hen's nest enclosure that will swing shut to keep out intruders when a hen enters and open when the hen leaves.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
Buie, Daniel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hopper for Leaching Ashes.
Patent for improved ash-hopper that is composed of suitable frame, two side boards, two triangle end boards that can be used to improve leaching ashes.
Date:
June 7, 1881
Creator:
Alexander, Abbington B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Adjuster.
Patent for a new and improved grain adjuster. This design "consists in the combination, with the platform-frame, of a wire or rod, which is preferably corrugated or bent, and which is fastened to the outer end of the frame and extends inward over the carrier in the rear of the cutter . . . The object of [the] invention is to apply to the frame of binding-machines a corrugated rod or wire, upon which the heads of the grain will catch, and thus prevent the heads of the cut grain from being moved toward the elevator faster than their butts, whereby the grain is presented evenly and regularly" (lines 14-27).
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
French, Horatio Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grave Cover.
Patent for a new and improved grave covering. This design calls for a concrete slab, slightly larger than its lidless wooden box, to rest on the upper edges of the latter. A slat in the slab will receive a headstone, which will rest on the slab via flanges.
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Thomas, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate and the horizontally-swinging arm arranged above the gate and provided in its free end with a longitudinal slot and a series of transverse perforations and engaging the lever, the vertical latch, also pivoted on the gate, and the horizontally-sliding connecting bar between the lower ends of the latch and the lever" (lines 90-101).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Lively, Robert M. & Lively, Louis P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaporating-Pan.
Patent for a evaporating pan for use in making syrup from green juices that helps strain impurities out of the juice and boil it down by having a variety of compartments that the juice flows through throughout the pan.
Date:
May 14, 1907
Creator:
Chamblee, Wilson G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan-Actuating Mechanism
Patent for a fan actuating mechanism. Attempts to improve upon fans by using a spring to provide maximum speed at minimum cost.
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Everitt, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History