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Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Kitts, William Caluway
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Bat Former and Compressor
Patent for a combined cotton bat former and compressor. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Raley, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle-Bit.
Patent for a bridle bit that holds and manages vicious horses and that can be adjusted to also fit a calf or colt.
Date:
December 19, 1911
Creator:
Smith, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Culinary Implement
Patent for a culinary implement for slicing food. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Wyatt, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Gatherer.
Patent for a fruit gatherer whereby fruit is picked without injury to fruit or tree.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
White, B.F.
System:
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Crate-Clamping Machine.
Patent for "improvement in crate clamping machines" (line 10), holding end boards and partition of crates to enable crate assembly.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
C. T. Dickson; Dickson, C. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for improved Cotton-Chopper, with illusrations and description.
Date:
August 19, 1913
Creator:
Clayton, John W.
System:
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Andiron.
Patent for an andiron that combines with a gated screen including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Baker, James W.
System:
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Railway-Rail Support and Coupling.
Patent for improved combined railway rail supports and joints that increases the efficiency and utility of such devices. Eliminates the need of employing additional bolts or other fastening means.
Date:
July 29, 1913
Creator:
Acker, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Brake.
Patent for a machine brake for motorized fans that allows the speed to be regulated.
Date:
July 25, 1911
Creator:
Mallory, John W. & Peters, Walter C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire
Patent for an automobile tire that has a "puncture-proof armor" made from links and strips of sheet metal. The armor is placed throughout the inner tube portion of the tire.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Yantis, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for a plow attachment by using a socket adapted to be clamped in position upon the beam (line 15). “Plow equipped with the attachment may be used at a straddle-row cultivator, or a middle furrow cultivator, and that the teeth may be so arranged as to cast the soil toward or away from the plants, as occasion may require” (lines 35-40). Illustration is included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Farrington, Johnathan William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Cloth Rack.
Patent for an oil-cloth display rack that includes a measuring device along the side.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sisler, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoker's Pipe.
Patent for improvements in sanitation, or cleaning, of smoker's pipes. Pipe can be dissembled for cleaning and includes access to duct and stem with no loss of quality in airstream.
Date:
April 20, 1915
Creator:
Hopkins, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Operated Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in Hand-Operated Baling-Presses that has a durable structure and is convenient and easy to use for baling hay and straw. Consists of "a box or body provided with a hopper of usual pattern" and "clamping rods located at the delivery end thereof" (lines 19-20) with a sliding plunger, lever, pivots, and a spring. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Harris, Albert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder and Planter.
Patent for a seeder and planter improvement. The invention "produce an improved leveling board to be used in connection therewith the purpose of leveling soil and crushing clods and for the additional purpose of regulating the depth to which the seed shall be planted." (lines 9-14)
Date:
December 23, 1913
Creator:
Mallory, Merideth T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad.
Patent for a railroad track with guard rails for keeping the trains wheels on the tracks.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Jobe, Seabrome
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable and Foldable Support for Weighing-Scales
Patent for a portable and foldable support for weighing scales designed to hold the scale at any given height from ground level. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 1, 1911
Creator:
Roten, Owen Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive and efficient implement by which roots of weeds and obnoxious grasses may be removed from the ground and destroyed," while also leaving the ground plowed (lines 9-12). The object also provides a simple way to remove accumulation of roots that generally clog implements of this type.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Garrett, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History