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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
Beverage Cooler And Dispensing Apparatus.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements i beverage coolers and dispensing apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Sidoti, Antonio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Car-Brakes" (lines 6-7) relating to a railroad brake operating mechanism, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Klasing, Augustus Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Controller Attachment for Levers
Patent for improvements on controllers for levers
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Smith, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Mead, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Lee, Jacob M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detaching Device for Wheel-Hubs.
Patent for an attachment for a wheel-hub that allows for the hub to be quickly and easily removed or engaged. The invention does not require a nut wrench; "devices for screwing and unscrewing the axle nut are carried by the wheel-hub, and are always in proper position for immediate use whenever it is necessary to detach the nut" (lines 16-19).
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Butler, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder and Filler.
Patent for a new and improved bag holder and filler. This design "consists of an expansible bag holding and filling funnel composed of a metallic strip having overlapping edges and provided with attached spring-wires, such funnel being capable of contraction to enter a bag, and of expanding therein for the purpose of holding and filling the bag" (lines 13-19).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Adkisson, Duncan Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Craig, William Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shadde Adjuster
Patent for improvements for the window shade adjuster. The window shade adjuster limits the amount of light from entering through a window by providing a slidable bar that can be moved.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Fechner, Albert H. & Fechner, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Spreader.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in knee spreaders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Trice, Sinnette Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for rotary engines "driven by steam or other elastic agent, or which may be used for pumping water" (lines 29-32) to obtain "a more direct application of the force applied to drive the engine" (lines 39-40) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1872
Creator:
Richardson, John Dun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame And Sash.
Patent for new and useful improvements in window frames and sashes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Wood, Alpheus H. & Tunnell, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device
Patent for a "locking device for coin controlled receptacles" (lines 11-13)
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Boone, Wallie R. & Watson, Chester A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lift.
Patent for certain new and useful improvment
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Jones, Athelstan O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism for Steam Engines
Patent for valve gear mechanism for steam engines.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Broadway, Fred V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Willson, Hodgen I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Digging Machine.
Patent for a new and improved well-digging machine. This design "consists in connecting to the bottom of [a] shaft a gang of plows, which effectually break and cut up the earth, and combing therewith a fixed and inclined shear-blade and detachable earth-receiver, the said shear-blade being located in the rear of the plows, for raising the earth from the motion of the plow, and delivering it automatically into the detachable earth-receiver, which is raised to the surface with its load by means of ropes and pulleys" (lines 27-37).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Chambers, Job C. & Chambers, Silas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Machines for Washing Photographs.
Patent for an improved machine for washing photographic prints allowing metallic or other rigid plates to be washed in addition to flexible prints.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Noah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Gin-Saw-Filing Machines.
Patent for improved circular file for gin-file-machine.
Date:
February 6, 1878
Creator:
Eastham, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener
Patent for improved fastener for boxes.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Lewis, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Musical Instrument.
Patent for a new musical instrument, similar to a lyre, designed to "provide a new and improved musical instrument which is simple and durable in construction, very light, of high resonant qualities, and arranged to permit convenient manipulation of the strings without the player touching the soundboard with the fingers" (lines 10-15), which includes illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1906
Creator:
Krueger, Amandus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Filtering Gas Burner
Patent for device that helps prevent air from choking burners when used in cooking.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Parks, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Key Tag
Patent for key tag.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Rosenfield, Clarence
System:
The Portal to Texas History