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Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer.
Patent for improvements in fertilizers “for restoring to the soil the elements which form the food for plants, and which have been abstracted therefore by the absorption of successive crops, or which are naturally deficient in quantity or entirely wanting in the soil.” (Lines 12-16) Instructions on preparing the fertilizers and ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Elsasser, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for train smokestacks. This design is of "a locomotive-engine, a pipe or pipes for conveying sparks from the smoke-stack, in combination of a diaphragm or cone placed in the stack and a steam or water chamber placed around the discharge of said pipe or pipes" (lines 88-93).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Store Counter.
Patent for a new and improved store counter. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontal slideways in the lower portion of the counter extending from front to rear, the rectangular slide-frames working therein, and the angular boxes pivoted by their lower and middle portions to the slide-frames and reversible therein by a rocking movement" (lines 17-24).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Conrad, William Jenkens
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n the brake-beams pivoted in the clamp, in combination with the bent rods, castings, brake-blocks, and lever" (lines 87-89).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Zellers, Robert Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame.
Patent for a new and improved window frame. This design "has for its objects to provide an improved means for holding the sash of a window in any position to which it may be elevated, and at the same time permit the sash to be readily moved up or down" (lines 11-15).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement to automatic car couplings with detail description and illustrations.
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
King, Charles R.; Aten, Aaron P. & Floyd, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for an improvement to the Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper with detailed illustrations.
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
Carley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Switch.
Patent for a new and improved railroad switch. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and safe switch adapted for operation by trip-bars on a locomotive engine or car to open or close the switch, and without injury to the rails or actuating mechanism of the switch or danger of derailing the cars" (lines 7-14).
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
Peetz, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace.
Patent for a bed brace that consists of end-loops that are held by engage hooks at the ends of the bedstead, fixed draw-wires that connect the outer and inner sides of the end-loops, a tension-loop that is connected to the side rails, tightening link with duplicate rings that slide onto the tension loop, and a transverse twisting-bar.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Pool, David Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Bag Carrier.
Patent for improved cotton sack carrier: "the object of the present invention is to provide a device whereby cotton sacks may be conveniently carried during the picking of cotton from one portion of the field to another without wearing the sack and with convenience to the picker" (lines 10-15).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Laird, Archibald F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Delivery Apparatus for Printing-Presses.
Patent for "an endless band or apron paper-delivery apparatus, for printing presses, which will automaticall take the sheets of paper from the cylinder and deliver them upon the usual table, in an orderly pile" (lines 24-28).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Sandel, Sam D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for an improved vertically swinging gate. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Russell, Charles, H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Ink-Bottles.
Patent for a holder for mucilage bottles, ink bottles, or similar containers. "The invention consists of a wire rest or holder bent to form a horizontal base and upwardly projecting clamping-arms" (lines 16-18).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Corley, Daniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Wire Articles.
Patent for an improved machine that makes wire coils, springs, pins, and similar wire formations. "The invention has for its objects to provide a simple, cheap and durable device or machine for the purpose named which can be easily operated and capable of turning out a large number of the articles with the expenditure of the minimum amount of time and labor" (lines 22-28).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Attachment.
Patent for an improved wagon seat for a wagon that carries butter, eggs, or other salable commodities. The seat folds forward and has double-bottomed seats, and things can be stored inside the seat.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Piper, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folder
Patent for a folder. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Coleman, Stephen Rutledge
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Attachment
Patent for a hame attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Herbelin, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reciprocating Electric Engine
Patent for a reciprocating electric engine. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Wagner, Bruno Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spectacles
Patent for spectacles. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Trulove, James William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street Sweeper
Patent for a street sweeper. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Ramsay, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Kinnison, Hallah C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1905
Creator:
Hunter, Arthur G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History