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Fan. (open access)

Fan.

Patent for a motor powered fan with adjustable speeds.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Futrell, J. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Ore-Concentrator (open access)

Electric Ore-Concentrator

Patent for an electric ore concentrator which offers "an improved method and means for electrically concentrating and separating various metallic substances from their respective ores" (lines 14-17), including explanations and illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baking-Oven (open access)

Baking-Oven

Patent for improvements in the design and construction of baking ovens
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Baxley, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Standard (open access)

Cultivator Standard

Patent for a cultivator standard. Illustration included.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Merrill, John Elijah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Filling-Machine (open access)

Automatic Filling-Machine

Patent for a filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin (open access)

Cotton-Gin

Patent for a cotton gin which uses air blasts to clear cotton from the saws of the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: January 26, 1909
Creator: Lumpkin, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer. (open access)

Cotton-Seed Conveyer.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton seed conveyer systems.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Stopple, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener. (open access)

Fastener.

Patent for improvement in fasteners that "can be attached to a collar-button for the purpose of holding any articles such as bow-ties, scarfs and neckties of wearing-apparel in position to make the articles easily attached or detached from the garment." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Applebom, Ralph & Sidenbitel, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism for Tamper Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Feeding Mechanism for Tamper Cotton-Presses.

Patent for an improved feeding mechanism for tamper Cotton presses.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Lee, Felix L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Stopple, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frictional Clutch. (open access)

Frictional Clutch.

Patent for a frictional clutch, which can be attached to different size pulleys.
Date: October 26, 1909
Creator: Haggard, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flushing-Tank for Water-Closets, &c. (open access)

Flushing-Tank for Water-Closets, &c.

Patent for improvement for Flushing-Tanks for Water-Closets, Urinals, Sinks, &c. through adoption of an immovable siphon and gate
Date: February 26, 1897
Creator: Carroll, Samuel C
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "consists in a sliding spring-bolt held in the upper edge of the door, combined with a curved notched frame, projecting from the door-frame, into the notches of which frame the end of the bolt can pass to hold the door in the desired potion. The sliding bolt is connected . . . [to] a crank-arm formed on one end of a spindle, provided on the opposite end with a handle-knob, the crank arm of which spindle can be adjusted to lock the spring-bolt" (lines 11-21).
Date: June 26, 1883
Creator: McCurdy, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for "an improved freight car door so supported that it will not be shaken or jarred off and can be easily opened and closed at all times no matter how heavily loaded the car may be." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1895
Creator: Allen, Thomas C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator and Gin-Feeder. (open access)

Cotton-Elevator and Gin-Feeder.

Patent for an inexpensive cotton-elevator and gin-feeder that is easy to assemble and have removable screens and suspended chutes and feeders. Suction draws the cotton through the distributing trunk, and gravity drops the cotton into a gin. These concepts are also outlined in the inventor's previous patents, Nos 472,607 and 488,446.
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Murray, Stephen A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale. (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Scale.

Patent for a more accurate continuous weighing automatic scale of such bulk materials as grain, cotton seed, etc. with a mechanism for automatical control of both a main and an auxiliary receiver door.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Williams, Andrew M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Delivery-Reel for Printing Presses (open access)

Delivery-Reel for Printing Presses

Patent for "improvements in delivery reels for printing presses, and more particularly to such reels on the so-called stop cylinder press having a reciprocatory bed carrying the type, and its object is to provide the delivery reel with mechanism whereby the paper will, after being removed from the cylinder be carried to such a position that its lower edge will be removed from the proximity to the type to prevent its engagement therewith on the return stroke of the bed" (lines 13-24) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1916
Creator: Garlick, Mark J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Scraper (open access)

Combined Plow and Scraper

Patent for "a combined plow and scraper, which may be employed to alternately break or loosen a surface that is being graded or lowered, and to scrape the loosened material from said surface." (lines 14-18)
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Reese, Edwin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner (open access)

Boll Breaker and Cleaner

Patent for new and improved Boll Breakers and Cleaners "for handling and cleaning seed cotton prior to it delivery to the ginning mechanism..." (lines 9-10).
Date: April 26, 1915
Creator: Kinne, Tempel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker. (open access)

Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker.

Patent for a combination lock used to protect automobile circuit breakers from unauthorized use.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Buckeye, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine. (open access)

Engine.

Patent for "engines which employ governors" (lines 11-12) "desirably located within the crank cases to be effectively lubricated by the oil which is dashed about in engine operation." (lines 13-16)
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Pratt, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Card-File Cabinet. (open access)

Card-File Cabinet.

Patent for a lockable card file cabinet or casing that allows for viewing through a transparent top with use of a rod for moving cards back and forth. The transparent top allows customer information to be stored and used, but not edited without a key.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Reeves, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History