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Wire-Tightener.
Patent for a new and useful wire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Boynton, Willie Amos
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for an inflammable compound for exterminating destructive insects and animals that contains alkanet-root, arsenious acid, gum-camphor, iodine resubl., phosphorus, sulphur resubl., and bisulphide carbon.
Date:
January 8, 1886
Creator:
Shugart, T. Woodward. & Clifton, Charley D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manually-Operated Coal-Mining Machine.
Patent for manually mining coal and allows miners to cut coal close to the ground from an upright position, including illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Jackson, Ed
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design calls for a wheel with a gap rather than a continuous ring, so a double-threaded bolt in the gap may be tightened or loosened to contract or expand the wheel and subsequently the tire.
Date:
November 8, 1881
Creator:
Jones, James Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester
Patent for peanut-harvester to plow vines from the ground and feed them into the rear of the machine to catch the peanuts that drop from the vines. This more easily separates the peanuts from the other foreign matter.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Winters, John William & Winters, Calvin C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for an oil burner, which attaches to a stove.
Date:
November 8, 1910
Creator:
Howze, James Montgomery
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Overcoat.
Patent for an overcoat that is "so constructed as to keep dry the legs of the wearer; which is adapted to shed water from horsemen; and which is of the usual external appearance and will not impede or interfere with the locomotion of the wearer" (lines 9-24).
Date:
May 8, 1894
Creator:
Gassaway, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Differential-Speed-Roller Cotton-Seed Huller.
Patent for a cotton seed huller with a differential speed roller that breaks the hulls off the seeds and prevents choking of the machine.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
McDonald, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings by using a draw-head having a chamber and a recess from its upper face into the chamber, of a coupling-dog pivoted in the recess and having a notch in its under faces and a hook at its forward end...... and the chain and levers connected with the said eyes.” (Lines 32-41) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 8, 1891
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History