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Churn Operating Mechanism
Patent for a churn operating mechanism. This invention provides a dasher operating mechanism for easy and convenient cleaning. Illustration included.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Cunningham, Richard A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Concentrated Animal-Dip
Patent for a concentrated insecticide dip for cattle to kill Texas fever ticks made of alkali arsonite, soap, pine tar, water, and ethyl alcohol.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Chapin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter.
Patent for a new part that attaches to an ordinary cultivator. The device has a plow that runs in front, and a planting mechanism that spreads seeds in the plowed rows. This device makes it possible to plough and plant in one sweep of the field.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Noren, Peter O. & Clyburn, Mile D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Popper
Patent for a corn popper that can also be used for roasting nuts or for general cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Young, George B. & Young, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Scraper Attachment for Disk Plows
Patent for an attachment for disk plows to "clean any disk in any kind of soil" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Fell, Julius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cinder Guard.
Patent for a detachable cinder guard to be used with car panels. This cinder guard prevents cinders and other items that may cause combustion from entering a car window.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Morse, S. F. B. & Tuggle, S. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rail-Joint and Nut-Lock
Patent for a combination rail joint and nut lock to hold railroad tracks in place.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Iley, William A.; Money, Robert L. & Money, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.
Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 31, 1896
Creator:
Flatau, Louis, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for chemical fire extinguishers "in which the acid-bottle consists of two concentric cylinders, the inner one of which is open at top and bottom, and which, when the bottle is placed in the cylinder containing the water and soda, potash, or other material, a compressed-air seal will be formed, preventing the acid and water from commingling; but when the bottle is inverted the seal will be broken, and the water and acid coming together will generate the gas." (Lines 18-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.
Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
White, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window Shade and Curtain Hanger.
Patent for an adjustable window shade frame that can be mounted on an existing window to allow curtains or shades to be adjusted from the top or the bottom, and secured at any desired level for privacy and/or ventilation.
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Edens, Myrtle J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Tile.
Patent for "hollow blocks" or "tile and hollow corner blocks" that "prevent moisture from passing through walls" (lines 10-14).
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Bennett, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Hand-Grip.
Patent for an improvement to artificial hand-grips that includes a pair of jaws that attaches to an artificial arm and allows wearers to perform various activities.
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Corley, Quentin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Holder
Patent for a window shade holder that makes the shade go up and down with the window opening and closing.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Harris, Albert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade
Patent for a window shade which can regulate light or ventilation. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Stephenson, Errett B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wireless Break-Key
Patent for a wireless break key that allows a station to just have one aerial line and prevents burn out of the machinery and injury to operators while transmitting messages faster than other wireless devices.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Mobley, Grier P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weeder
Patent for a weeder that breaks up the ground as well as cutting weeds.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Wind, Iver Ebbesen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor.
Patent for an improved wheel cultivator, which includes a planter attachment, a hopper, a seed-dropping and fertilizer distributing mechanism, and covering plows.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Bigler, B. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Attachment for Wagons
Patent for improvements in the weighing attachments for wagons so that "the wagon body with its contents may be weighed without removing it from the holsters; and it has for its object to provide a device which shall be simple in construction, accurate, and easily operated" (lines 10-14).
Date:
December 31, 1889
Creator:
Gragg, Zachry Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vibrator
Patent for a vibrator to be used for treating diseases and massage treatment.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Swindell, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine.
Patent for "a new threshing-machine, which is arranged upon wheels, so that it can be drawn over the field" (lines 12-15) and make the process for which it was built: more efficient. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
December 31, 1867
Creator:
Tucker, A. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support for Binders
Patent for a tongue support for binders. "A device of this nature for supporting tongues of binders or other machines, in order to remove the weight and the strain from the necks of the animals" (lines 15-18). Illustration included.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Loe, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Furnace
Patent for a portable furnace to be used with pots and kettles. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Ruhmann, Gustave E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Piston.
Patent for an improvement on Pump-Pistons."This invention has for its object to provide a pump-piston constructed entirely of metal in order to avoid the use of packings constructed of leather or other rapidly-wearing material; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction herinafter fully described." (Lines 15-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Kincaid, Walter H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History