Collection
Country
Decade
Month
Day
Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator
Patent for improvements to a Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator used for ore and gravel.
Date:
December 3, 1901
Creator:
Journeay, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton
Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat Compressing and Feeding Mechanism for Cotton Presses
Patent for an improved bat system to compress a bat of cotton into a number of individual sheets or laminae and to automatically feed same after being compressed into the baling box of an ordinary cotton press for forming cubical or square bales of cotton.
Date:
September 3, 1901
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler
Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date:
September 3, 1901
Creator:
Hensley, Frank Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auto-Door Stop
Patent for a door stop that is cheap to produce and holds doors firmly.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Hill, Ulysses H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baking-Stove and Steam-Cooker.
Patent for a combined stove and steam cooker for which water can be added without opening the stove/cooker.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coop or Crate
Patent for a downwardly folding coop or crate used in shipping or tranport. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
La Bauve, Odelon J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling.
Patent for new usability improvements for hose coupling, designed for novice users, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Stephens, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Suspenders.
Patent for suspender attachment designed to support trousers. Includes Illustration.
Date:
September 3, 1901
Creator:
Dahl, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railway-Tie and Rail-Clamp.
Patent for a combined railway tie and rail clamp, which is made of metal rather than wood.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Finley, Jefferson L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brazing Compound
Patent for a compound for brazing saws and metal such as silver and tin.
Date:
September 3, 1912
Creator:
Ge Bott, Jay Dell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel Chill
Patent for a car wheel chill. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Carr, Benjamin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coop or Crate
Patent for a collapsible coop or crate. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
La Bauve, Odelon J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt Tightener and Stretcher
Patent for a device that stretches and tightens belts, ropes, wire, etc.
Date:
December 3, 1901
Creator:
Engle, Jacob S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.
Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Peeples, Rufus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn - Husking Machine
Patent for improvements to the corn-husking machine with a butt-end cutter for the ears of corn. (lines 9-10)
Date:
July 3, 1900
Creator:
Werner, Anton, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a bailing press machine designed to be more efficient and durable. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Jones, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Concrete-Mixer.
Patent for a concrete mixer that keeps the materials low to the ground and has improved mixing and delivery mechanisms.
Date:
October 3, 1911
Creator:
Foley, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.
Date:
December 3, 1901
Creator:
Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffin.
Patent for "a coffin of improved construction and composition, to so construct the same as to render it impervious to the action of water or moisture, and to render said coffin strong and durable and admit of the same being produced in a neat and ornamental form." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 3, 1896
Creator:
Handshy, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Peters, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and reliable car-coupling that embodies "novel features of construction that adapt[s] said coupling for an automatic coupled engagement with a similar coupling, and that may be safely uncoupled from the side of the car whereon the improvement is secured" (lines 11-16).
Date:
September 3, 1895
Creator:
Tiner, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Archer, Roger W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top.
Patent for a new and improved carriage top. This design consists in "the combination, with a vehicle-seat, a series of top-supporting bows pivoted thereto, and a jointed brace having its lower end pivoted to the seat and its upper end to one of the bows, of a rigid operating-lever having its upper end pivoted to said jointed brace and its lower end adjustably connected with the seat, whereby the position of the lower end of said lever may be varied and the brace and top secured in any desired position" (lines 51-60).
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Goelet, Edward Buncombe
System:
The Portal to Texas History