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Nut-Lock.
Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Payne, Lewis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Boese, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for a crate which can be knocked down and folded, including illustrations. The crate is designed with novel features.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
La Bauve, Odelon Joseph.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring and Tenoning Machine.
Patent for a new and improved combined hollow auger attachment and felly-boring machine. This design "relates to an improved felly-boring machine which is adapted with slight adjustment to co-operate with a hollow auger for forming the tenons on the spokes. [The] invention consists in the construction of the frame, the clamp for securing it to the spokes or felly-supports, and in the means for holding and adjusting the auger" (lines 14-21).
Date:
April 24, 1883
Creator:
Ryan, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Case for Rural-Mail Carriers.
Patent for a device to enable rural mail carriers to efficiently carry and store postal items for sale. The storage unit (device) is water-resistant to protect the items inside from inclement weather while delivering mail.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Campbell, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Holder.
Patent for a pencil-holder designed to quickly attach to pencils or pens of different sizes, including illustrations. This pencil-holder features a clip which clamps onto the edge of one's pocket to prevent the pencil from falling out or damaging the pocket.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Eldredge, Alva Ray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Delinter
Patent is for a Delinter. It provides a means for mechanical separation of cotton seeds from fiber as a new way of cotton ginning.
Date:
April 24, 1912
Creator:
Mullen, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Writing-Machine.
Patent for writing-machine mechanism which prolongs the life of the ribbon and provides "means to rotate the platen step by step at each actuation of one or more of the keys" (line 20).
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Edwards, Alrah B. & Russell, Frank K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle top. This design consists in "the combination of the supporting-bows having grooves in their side, the upper ends of the grooves overlapping the curtain-supporting frames, comprising the flexible side-bars provided with lateral tongues fitting in the grooves of the supporting-bows, and the cross-bars secured to the side bars and having their ends fitted in said grooves, and the covering secured to said frame" (lines 82-91).
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Killing Composition
Patent for "new and useful composition of matter designed for killing and preventing the growth of weeds and noxious grasses, and is particularly designed for killing and preventing the growth of Bermuda and Johnson grasses." (lines 9-14)
Date:
April 24, 1912
Creator:
Owen, Hillery O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for vehicle-wheels that "automatically" expand and contract (lines 8-10); including illustration and instructions
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Mabry, D. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump Puller.
Patent for a new and improved stump puller. This design's object "is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective stump-puller, readily portable and easily operated by one man and a horse; and to that end the novelty consists in the construction of the same" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 24, 1883
Creator:
Tucker, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.
Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
Date:
April 24, 1874
Creator:
Crockett, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Stem.
Patent for a well-boring stem. This design eliminates buckling at the couplings of the stem.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cleaning Machine.
Patent for a new well cleaning machine.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Cowan, Elias H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for a tool that can be attached to cultivators and harrows to make stalk and vine cultivation more efficient.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Dorris, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow
Patent for the design of a plow that can "overcome obstacles without injury to"(lines 14-15) to the machine. It also includes a new design for a plow foot spring, in addition to an element that allows the foot spring to be adjusted quickly by there operator.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Sanders, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Support.
Patent for improvements to tongue supports. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of tongue-supports and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device designed to be connected with the ends of a doubletree and with the front axle and capable of supporting the front portion of the tongue or pole in an elevated position to relieve the neck of the draft- animals of the weight of the same" (lines 10-18). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Brewer, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock
Patent for locking-washer "so that the nuts will not come off or be knocked from the bolts" (Lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Palmer, Clyde E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for a new invention to improve tire-tighteners."Provides a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device capable of firmly engaging a felly and a spoke and adapted to be readily adjusted to tighten a tire" (lines 12-15) and includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Ferriott, Charley L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammock or Swing.
Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design consists in "the combination of a suspended canopy, consisting of a hoop provided with screw-eyes and having a textile covering and a mosquito-netting secured thereto and depending therefrom, with a basket consisting of a hoop, a suitably-constructed bottom, a cushion, and a guard . . . and supporting-ropes secured at their lower portions to the basket and to the guard, and having snap-hooks at their upper ends adapted to engage the screw-eyes in the hoop of the canopy" (lines 5-15).
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
Broderick, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Cleaner.
Patent for a cleaner for cotton-gin saws for "an improved construction of cleaner adapted to be used in connection with saw-cylinders on different kinds of gins" (lines 10-13) and "which may be easily fitted and held securely in position in a detachable manner" (lines 18-19).
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Bolen, Walter M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a crank-armed, lever operated gate.
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
Spencer, Hiram
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gangway.
Patent for a ramp for use by the Army in loading farm animals and wagons on train cars and other transports. This gangway is designed in sections to be adaptable for different needs and to be collapsible for storage and easy transportation.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Titsworth, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History