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Automatic Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic cotton elevators and distributes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 6, 1898
Creator:
Wheeler, Houston J
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow And Stalk-Chopper.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combination plow and stalk chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1898
Creator:
Williams, Wood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Shade Roller And Lock.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a combination shade roller and lock, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert M
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in "combined cotton planters, choppers, and cultivators" (line 9-11).
Date:
December 6, 1898
Creator:
Albreekt, Niklaus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Catching Waste Products From Lead, Silver, or Other Smelters.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in apparatus for "catching the waste products from lead, silver , or other smelters" (line 5 - 7).
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Sergeant, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Holder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bolt holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1898
Creator:
Higdon, Jasper S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
O'Marrow, Mattie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling
Patent for an invention that provides "a single structure in which the air-brake pipes will be simultaneously coupled with the coupling of a car" (lines 14-17).
Date:
September 6, 1892
Creator:
Thomas, James Bryant
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bath-Tub.
Patent for "a super bath-tub of that class in which the small portable or foot tub is provided with a removable shield and seat capable of enlarging the size of the tub and of furnishing a rest for the person using the tub." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Lacy, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn for separating butter. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "improvements in car couplings and it has for its general object to provide a coupling embodying such a constructions that two cars may be connected together or disconnected without the objectionable necessity of a trainman going between them." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 6, 1894
Creator:
Tunnell, John D.
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
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that automatically couples cars so people do not need to go between cars. This invention is meant to "provide an improved car coupler of the above character, which shall be simple and economical in construction and efficient in operation" (lines 21-24).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Lawhon, David West
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar.
Patent for " invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar" (lines 5-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Ellis, Emmett A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Lee, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator
Patent for improvements so that the "choppers may be raised, in order to leave standing such of the growth of the cotton as is necessary, or while turning corners; third, in means hereinafter to be described, by which the depth at which the scrapers and choppers run into the ground maybe adjusted" (lines 16-22).
Date:
May 6, 1890
Creator:
Ellis, David P,
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cut-off for Rotary Engines
Patent for improvements "to the means for actuating the valves controlling the steam supply" (lines 10-12).
Date:
March 6, 1890
Creator:
Wallerich, Nicholas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clinometer or Slope Measurer.
Patent for a new and improved clinometer. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for taking measurements in prismoidal formula and to avoid the calculation of the triangle and enable the slope to be readily written from the instrument" (lines 16-21). It "compris[es] the square composed of the stationary short bar or arm and the stationary long bar or arm rigidly secured to one side of the short arm or bar and provided on its face with a spirit-level and having a scale of graduations of which the length of the short bar or arm is the unit, the curved brace connecting the said parts" (lines 60-68).
Date:
January 6, 1891
Creator:
Parks, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton-chopper by using a combination of revolving disk, fender disks, a rotary shaft and cultivator-blades to construct a machine that is able to thin and cultivate cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
Allen, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator, Cleaner, and Distributer.
Patent for a cotton elevator, cleaner, and distributor that takes cotton from a wagon or storage area and blasts it with air before depositing it into a gin. It is a cage inside a case.
Date:
August 6, 1895
Creator:
Ginn, Moses M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that features "a solid block at the back part of the draw-head, which when coupling the cars will come far enough back to hit the solid part in the draw-head and prevent the bent spring from breaking." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 6, 1896
Creator:
Schneider, Adolph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for "a combined animal poke and halter of simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby stock to which the device is applied are prevented from forcing through or throwing their weight against barbed and other wire fences, and also whereby a halter strap or chain may be readily applied thereto to provide for securing the stock in their stalls when stabled." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 6, 1896
Creator:
Parker, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has reference more particularly to that class of devices which are adapted to be applied to and removed from the wires at will" (lines 9-11). It consists in "the rigid bar, hooks . . . pivoted to the bar, and a laterally projecting arm" (lines 69-71).
Date:
January 6, 1891
Creator:
Reed, Francis O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wooden Bridge
Patent for a wooden bridge with a focus on increased durability of the structure and effective drainage for moisture from the timbers and for the free circulation of air between, around, or through the structure.
Date:
April 9, 1891
Creator:
Ferguson, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History