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Combined Automobile Tail-Light and Illuminated Number. (open access)

Combined Automobile Tail-Light and Illuminated Number.

Patent for a combined automobile tail-light and illuminated frame for the number of the car.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Stafford, Frederick S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Ginning Machinery. (open access)

Cotton-Ginning Machinery.

Patent for cotton ginning machinery, which separates cotton faster and more cleanly and continuously feeds cotton into the saws.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hay-Press (open access)

Automatic Hay-Press

Patent for an automatic hay press that ties three sides of the bale while in the press and the fourth outside of it.
Date: March 14, 1911
Creator: Parvin, William S. & Muse, Warwick J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin (open access)

Cotton-Gin

Patent for a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Lumpkin, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for baling-press to press bales of cotton into rectangular bales including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Taylor, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine. (open access)

Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine.

Patent for an improvement on machines that create buttonholes and mark buttonholes. Includes illustrations.
Date: October 14, 1902
Creator: Powell, William J.; Vaughn, William H. & Rose, Isaac E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Awning-Bracket. (open access)

Awning-Bracket.

Patent for a rigid, strong, and adjustable to different inclinations awning-bracket meant to be permanently attached to a building. It can be folded for shipment or storage.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Regulator for Dynamo Electric Machines. (open access)

Current Regulator for Dynamo Electric Machines.

Patent for a new and improved current regulator. This design "pertains to that class of regulators in which the collecting brushes of the commutator are automatically moved around the commutator and caused to occupy different positions relatively to the maximum lines of the magnetic field between the poles and the armature; and it embraces a novel method of controlling the movement of the brushes to compensate for variations in the speed of the machine and regulate the current in accordance with the work to be done" (lines 11-21).
Date: February 14, 1888
Creator: Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bag Rack. (open access)

Bag Rack.

Patent for a new and improved bag rack. This design "is to provide a new and improved rack adapted to hold a number of paper bags of different sizes, and also adapted to hold samples of groceries, cards, a ball of twine, advertising books, &c.The invention consists of a bag-rack having at one side a case containing a series of shelves and a transparent front, and of the combination therewith of a superposed twine-case having side compartments" (lines 7-16).
Date: April 14, 1885
Creator: Williams, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Awning Bracket. (open access)

Awning Bracket.

Patent for a new and improved awning bracket. This design "relates to awning-brackets of that class which are secured to the wall of the building over the sidewalk, and secure themselves without the use of posts, &c. The invention has for its object to provide a self-sustaining bracket possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 9-16).
Date: August 14, 1883
Creator: Rodgers, Ranzil H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Wheel and Axle. (open access)

Car Wheel and Axle.

Patent for a car wheel and axle made up of a built-up metallic wheel with dished side-plates that have flanged and riveted rims, hub-nuts, a lock-plate, hollow screw-threaded ends, hexagonal offsets, tubular journals, a tubular journal, and a radial lubricating feed-tube with a cross-head and a collar.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis Spencer
System: The Portal to Texas History
AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE. (open access)

AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE.

Patent for an improved automatic scale that can weigh large measurements of crops, including illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1914
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check and the Like. (open access)

Check and the Like.

Patent for a bank check that lists the names and information of multiple banks so that the check can be drawn or charged in multiple banks (universal check).
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Moody, Jason B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Regulating Attachment. (open access)

Air-Regulating Attachment.

Patent for a new attachment in a carburetor that regulates air through suction and has a valve to release pressure from an engine, including illustrations.
Date: May 14, 1918
Creator: Kimbler, Henry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Separator (open access)

Cotton-Separator

Patent for a cotton gin designed to not need frequent cleaning.
Date: March 14, 1919
Creator: Williams, Melford L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waffle-Iron. (open access)

Waffle-Iron.

Patent for a waffle iron that can be operated by placing it on a stove-top. It "consists in a base, a yoke pivoted thereto and swinging in vertical plane, and the molding and cooking irons carried by the yoke" (lines 15-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: George, Alexander B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field. (open access)

Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.

Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.
Date: April 14, 1857
Creator: Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger (open access)

Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger

Patent for improvements to loose-leaf individual or general bank-ledgers, mainly pertaining to the ledger's structure and ease of use through adding leaves or sheets without disrupting current leaves or sheets. Includes illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Clamp (open access)

Wire Fence Clamp

Patent for a wire fence clamp. Illustration included.
Date: June 15, 1903
Creator: Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interchangeable Illuminated Sign. (open access)

Interchangeable Illuminated Sign.

Patent for Improvements in new illuminated signs.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Stafford, Frederick. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plaiting-Irons. (open access)

Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.

Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1877
Creator: Gingras, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Raising Fluids from Artesian Wells (open access)

Method of Raising Fluids from Artesian Wells

Patent for a method of using compressed air to retrieve contents of bored wells.
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Brown, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys (open access)

Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys

Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
Date: July 14, 1874
Creator: Hickley, Walter R & Dibrell, Charles J
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy (open access)

Toy

Patent for a toy. The toy is in the shape of a windmill. Illustrations included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Exline, Bena Bird; Exline, Marcus P. & Exline, Albert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History