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Disk Cultivator
Patent for improvements to a disk cultivators which allows for the disks to hit the ground at various angles, thus improving cultivation,
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Atkinson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cable Reeling and Pulling Truck
Patent for the cable reeling and pulling truck. This invention was made to ease the process of cable reeling and pulling by trucks and for improvements to the safety of this process. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
February 12, 1918
Creator:
Alberts, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking-Tool.
Patent for improvements to wireworking tools which are "especially designed for twisting the opposite ends of a tie-wire to a runner-wire of a fence and also for twisting the intermediate portion of the tie-wire, so as to tighten the embrace of the latter upon the fence-post. It is furthermore designed to provide means for supporting or bracing the tool upon the post during the twisting operation thereof, and, finally, to arrange the handle of the tool so as to provide a convenient and effective wire-cutter." (Lines 10-21) Illustrations are included.
Date:
February 12, 1901
Creator:
Tate, Newton J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Differential Mechanism for Automobiles
Patent for improvements for differential mechanisms for automobiles, including a "means for transmitting power from the motor to the traction wheels of the machine".
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
Maniscalco, Anthony S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame For Slates.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in frames for slates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Mitchell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Miller, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushioned Tire
Patent for a cushioned tire. This invention is for tires for vehicle-wheels " to obiate the collapsing of the tire by puncturing thereof, as in pneumatic tires" (line 11-12). Illustration included.
Date:
March 12, 1907
Creator:
Curtis, Zenas Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cutting Key Seats or the Like
Patent for a device for cutting key seats or the like. This invention is an improvement in metal working tools as they relate to key seat cutters. Illustration included.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
Lindstrom, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Supporting Grave-Linings
Patent for a support for the fabric used for lining graves. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Deering, Uriah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Bouquet Holder.
Patent for a new and original bouquet-holder made of ductile wiring.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Postert, Alwina D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Assisting Vehicles Uphill.
Patent for a device for assisting vehicles uphill, which attaches a counter balance to the wagon that lifts up going downhill and goes down while going up hill to make the pulling easier on the animals pulling the wagon.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Stevens, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Speed Engine
Patent for a double speed engine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 12, 1904
Creator:
Richards, Oliver L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Digging Wells or Post Holes.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design consists in "the combination, with an annular head carrying cutters, of the block or bar, the arms secured at their upper ends to the bar or block and at their opposite ends to the head, the cylinder, and the yielding arms secured at one end to said bar and their opposite ends adapted to engage the upper edge of the cylinder" (lines 34-41).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Stephenson, Elam Grigory
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for cooling milk, meat, vegetables, &c.
Patent for an early fridge, a device that will cool meat, milk and vegetables. It comprises a container of ice cold water, and a place to store the foodstuffs in.
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Smart, J. W. & Cheatham, T. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attaching Pumps to Oil and Other Cans.
Patent for a device for attaching pumps to oil and other cans.
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Holden, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Watch-Chain.
Design patent for a rosary watch-chain that includes strings of beads, hearts, an image of the "Virgin Mary," and a watch-key in the shape of a crucifix. There is no accompanying illustration.
Date:
May 12, 1885
Creator:
Graham, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a jointed rod which has its lower end fastened to one of the hooks of the coupling and its upper end fastened to a vertically-moving ring that slides upon the brake-rod, whereby the coupling hook can be raised upward and supported in such a position that it will not couple when the cars run together" (lines 14-20).
Date:
October 12, 1880
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the link out from the end of the draw-head" (lines 7-17).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Appell, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplers, the object being to provide a coupler with a coupling-pin of improved construction, and to combine said pin with effective and durable devices for raising and lowering it. The invention consists in the combinations of parts" (lines 9-15).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Cage, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers and Dividers.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in measuring instruments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Taulman, Joseph Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with an adjustable swinging arm.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Lang, Leo Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Caldwell, Mack
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Feeding Mechanism
Patent for a mechanism designed to cleanse cotton of dust or other foreign particles or objects before being fed. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a machine that uses revolving brush cylinders, stationary brushes, and stripping boards to prepare cotton for ginning, including illustration.
Date:
March 12, 1861
Creator:
Eastham, A. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History