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Improvement In Corn And Cotton-Seed Planters.
This patent is an upgraded corn and seed planter machine that plants corn, cotton, and other types of seeds for mass production. The machine is aligned with the surface of the ground. It does not converse with the plows that are attached to it, freeing up the machine to release seeds proficiently with ease.
Date:
April 9, 1878
Creator:
Adams, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam, Air, or Water Engine.
Patent for simplifying the construction of steam-engines allowing them efficiently use the power of steam" gas, vapor or air in varying positions, vertical, horizontal, or inclined.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Adams, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life Raft.
Patent for boat state rooms that convert into life rafts.
Date:
September 9, 1884
Creator:
Adams, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton scraper. This design "is to provide an improved corn and cotton scraper for turning or shovel plows for the cultivation of cotton, corn, and other plants, which is adapted to be attached to the beam of the plow without weakening the same by cutting or boring. The scraper is so arranged as to be adjusted either to the right or left, as desired, and up and down, on a central slotted foot-piece, by means of which the line of draft on the blade of the scraper is at all times the same as that on the beam of the plow" (lines 14-25).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Adams, William Hinyard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters
Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Agee, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen-Hanger.
Patent for more accessible window screen hangers. The inventors claimed that these improved screen hangers eliminated the challenge of hanging window screens on the exterior of tall buildings. These screen hangers allowed customers to hang, adjust, and clean screens from the inside of buildings.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.
Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism for Automobiles and the like
Patent for new and improved lubricating steering pump for automobiles and the like. Allows for better lubrication circulation to drive shafts.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Allan, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Allen, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor
Patent for hybraulic motor. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1904
Creator:
Allen, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tank for Oil Burners
Patent fora tank for oil burners. This invention is designed to supply burners with crude oil. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Alverson, Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "is to provide a fastener . . . which is of simple construction, which can be readily adjusted, and in which all strain is removed from the pivot of the locking-dog, thus obviating any breakage of the pivot, whatever may be the strain" (lines 17-23).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Lock.
Patent for a new and improved lock for hames. This design "consist[s] of the coupling branches . . . [one] being composed of the two pivoted sections forming the bell-mouth, the section having the slot and spring secured to its opposite end and pressing against the underside of the section, and the branch having the catch-tooth adapted to enter the bell-mouth and engage the slot" (lines 67-75).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for improvements to plows with laterally extending adjustable wings, as well as other different styles of plow and cultivator standards, with illustration.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Armentraut, Richard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Flue
Patent for metallic flue. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Armstrong, Layton D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Fountain.
Patent for toy foundation. It is "an improved form of toy fountain by which a column of water or other liquid may be discharged into the air from a suitable reservoir by pueumatic pressure" (lines 8-11).
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Attwater, Henry P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game.
Patent for a "a game of skill, rather than a game of chance" (lines 11-12), albeit with elements of a game of chance, in the style of a carnival game. The game consists of a motorized, revolving model airplane and a circular arrangement of nets (one for each player); the airplane drops candy into the winning player's net.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
Auffurth, Erwin, Jr. & Hjerpe, Erick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Honey
Patent for an apparatus for extracting honey. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Avant, Leonidas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combine Dimmer and Adjuster for Headlights
This patent is for the improvement of illumination and more particularly relates to a combined dimmer and adjuster for headlights. The primary aim is for the improvement of dimmers on the lamps of a motor vehicle so that the dimmers might be adjusted together with respect to the lamps so that various positions of vertical and horizontal adjustment are possible and if necessary, the removal of the cover of the lamps.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Averitt, Robert W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of making tire-fillers
Patent for the process of making tire fillers that relates to the fillers for tire casings and the process of producing the same.
Date:
September 9, 1919
Creator:
Aycock, Edward F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick.
Patent for improvements to derricks for oil wells.
Date:
June 9, 1920
Creator:
Babek, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Gasolene.
Patent for the manufacture of gasoline. The product is used as a fuel for internal combustion engines.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Bacon, Raymond F.; Brooks, Benjamin T. & Clark, Clinton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History