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Electric Time-Switch.
Patent for an electric, switch-operated construction functioning for timer-controlled circuit completions and breaks, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Chappel, James. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mixing Plant.
Patent for new mixing plants materials and procedures, "comprising novel means for handling, conveying, and mixing the several materials which constitute the feed and for accurately determining the proportion of each such materials" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 3, 1906
Creator:
Binnings, Charles Elijah
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
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Harris, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Jack.
Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow, by John W. Hudson. This plow has a beam that can be adjusted to carry different sizes of plows. Beam is designed to help equalize resistance between the two sides of the beam.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Hudson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shear-Sharpener.
Patent for an improved shear sharpener which has a "new and novel construction by which shears are quickly and properly sharpened, ... whereby a shear is held at the proper bevel while being moved over an oilstone or the like" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Jeffrey, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Working Machine.
Patent for a road working machine, which claims to simplify and improve the type of this machine that is designed to "operate upon banks at the sides of the road for the purpose of trimming such banks and moving the surplus dirt in the direction of the center of the road." (lines 11-14)
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McBride, William J. & Alford, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Anchor
Patent for anchors, flukes and braces attached to the end of a fence post, pole, or similar that will shore and hold the post in the desired vertical position for installation.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Rousseau, Pinkney H. & Lambert, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick
Patent for a derrick. Illustration included.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McClain, Thomas & McDaniel, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for an acetylene gas generator, which claims to improve upon this device by simplifying the "means for feeding carbid to the water," (line 14) hence making it "more efficient and durable in use and less expensive to manufacture." (lines 19-21)
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Dulaney, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for cultivator attachment improvement "for the purpose of thinning cotton plants to save chopping" (p. 1, lines 9-10). Improved cultivator attachment is used in conjunction with cultivator shovel to cause intermittent deposition of soil on plants to achieve thinning.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Teeter, William Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History