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Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for treating lint cotton as it passes from the gin for bleaching. Illustration included.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed Planter (open access)

Cotton-seed Planter

Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date: February 25, 1901
Creator: Mills, William Cairill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for a cylinder shaped animal trap for small furry animals.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Fikes, Benjamin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy. (open access)

Canopy.

Patent for a canopy for beds and sofas to keep out insects.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Swanwick, Harry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker (open access)

Cotton-Picker

Patent for a cotton picker. Illustrations included.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Haring, Peter Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dressing Device for Armless People (open access)

Dressing Device for Armless People

Patent for a dressing device that aids in dressing people with no arms by buttoning and unbuttoning shirts and adjusting neckties. Illustrations included.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an improvement to churns. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel churn structure embodying a pair of oppositely reciprocating dashers mounted in a common churn receptacle or body and operated from a single crank wheel" (lines 15-19).
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Burdeaux, Carey E. & Burdeaux, Charley W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Tying and Untying Packages. (open access)

Device for Tying and Untying Packages.

Patent for a device to easily secure and release cords used to bind packages, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Galbraith, David G. & Galbraith, Nannie L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Harvester.

Patent for a cotton-harvester meant to pick the ripe cotton but leaves the plants or unripe cotton and to improve the construction of cotton-harvesters.
Date: February 25, 1896
Creator: Pickering, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Chairs. (open access)

Attachment for Chairs.

Patent for a new and improved chair. This design consists "[i]n a reading and writing attachment for chairs, the combination of a bail-shaped clamp adapted to be applied to a chair-arm, an upright slotted arm, a set-screw passing through said slotted arm and engaging the clamp, a plate carried by the upper end of said slotted arm, and a table pivotally connected to said plate, whereby the table may be adjusted vertically, horizontally, and obliquely" (lines 66-75).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Hutton, Milton C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for "an exceedingly rapid baling of the hay, to provide for the easy transportation of the press and the power employed in connection therewith, and to provide for the adjustment of the size of the baling-chamber" (lines 9-13).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Mattijetz, Andreas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Binder for Paper Tablets. (open access)

Binder for Paper Tablets.

Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
Date: February 25, 1879
Creator: Murray, Bredett C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Ringing Bells. (open access)

Device for Ringing Bells.

Patent for improvements in the construction of devices for ringing bells, including illustrations.
Date: February 25, 1879
Creator: Perry, Elton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel Buffer (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel Buffer

Patent for an improved construction for a vehicle-wheel buffer which eliminates deterioration of its components found in ordinary type buffer. This invention implements an anti-friction mounting which allows the buffer to rotate freely.
Date: February 25, 1915
Creator: Kettler, Martin F.; M. F. Kettler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Road-Light. (open access)

Automobile Road-Light.

Patent for an automobile road-light improvement that causes the lights of a moving vehicle to move in conformity of the vehicle itself. The device is readily attachable to automobiles of standard type.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Tausch, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Four Wheel Drive Mechanism (open access)

Four Wheel Drive Mechanism

Patent for giving engine power equally to all four wheels of a vehicle.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Littlejohn, Lonzo B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for turning and clearing cotton.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Goodman, W.T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder for Stenotyped Notes (open access)

Copy Holder for Stenotyped Notes

Patent for a stenotyped note copy holder.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Hoyl, A. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Bending and Embossing Sheet Metal (open access)

Machine for Bending and Embossing Sheet Metal

Patent for "new and improved machine which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and especially designed for simultaneously curving and embossing sheet-metal plates for use as cornices, metal shingles, &c" (lines 8-13).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Baldwin, Benjamin J., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Spring. (open access)

Wagon Spring.

Patent for a new and improved wagon spring. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which springs of great strength may be employed which will not require stay-chains, and which will not increase the height of the wagon-body and cause inconvenience in loading and unloading the vehicle and in getting in and out, and, furthermore, to provide a vehicle in which the wagon-body may be but slightly elevated above the axles, and in which the springs will have great play" (lines 17-26).
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Conley, Miles D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Bagging. (open access)

Machine for Cutting Bagging.

Patent for a cutting machine for cloth bags for cotton presses, which has cloth continuously being fed into it and cuts it at predetermined lengths which can be adjusted as needed.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Clark, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Kiln (open access)

Lumber-Kiln

Patent for a "kiln proper . . . constructed with special reference to combustion of cinders or sparks, and thereby preventing their escape into the chamber containing the lumber" (lines 7-10)
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Anderson, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Tablets (open access)

Machine for Making Tablets

Patent for a machine for making tablets. This patent describes improvements in tablet-making machines or molds, which will be simple in construction and which will make tablets of different sizes, there being provided plates which are perforated and of different sizes whereby the thickness which it is desired to mold the tablets may be regulated.
Date: February 25, 1896
Creator: Loving, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters (open access)

Improvement in Seed Planters

Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date: February 25, 1873
Creator: Friday, Reuben
System: The Portal to Texas History