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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Brooks, John Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting-Nippers.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cutting nippers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Love, Robert Hamilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lifting-Jack and Shaft-Support
Patent for a "combined lifting-jack and thill-support for vehicles," (lines 8-9) with the objective being "to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character." (lines 10-11)
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Morgan, Rovena G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Robe For Invalids.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bed robes for invalids, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Sims, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Parker, Joseph Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in copy holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Scarborough, George Moore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust-Controlling Valve.
Patent for new exhaust-controlling valve mechanisms in steam or air engines, including illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Inman, Wesley J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Minnow Bucket and Trap.
Patent for a combined minnow bucket and trap that overcomes past disadvantages, is simple in constructions, inexpensive to manufacture and reliable.
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Petmecky, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved clasp. This design "consist[s] of the front plate formed with the integral strap loop or slot at its upper end, the teeth at its lower end, and the opening above said teeth, the rear plate formed with integral teeth at its lower end, side ears at its upper end, and the lugs below said ears and projecting beyond the outer face of the plate, the spindle passing through the ears and provided with a spring throwing the plates apart, and the locking-plate pivoted at its upper end to the lugs and having a [different] lug projecting inward from said upper end" (lines 83-96).
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Lewis, Annie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Hatchet.
Patent for a new and improved carpenter's hatchet. This design, "by curving or convexing the back of the hatchet downward from the eye to the rear end of the blade [it] greatly facilitates the ease and efficiency with which the hatchet can be used in driving nails in angles and corners—an improvement which will be at once appreciated by all carpenters—while by forming the back of the blade with the opposite recesses, leaving the thin wall between them, the hatchet can be used as a screw-driver, and the carpenter can thus dispense with the use of a separate screw-driver" (lines 67-79).
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Stopple, John Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Garbage.
Patent for an apparatus for burning garbage that is made up of a roasting chamber, a grate to hold the garbage, two furnaces, a passage for the ashes, a third furnace connected to the passage, flues, a smokestack, non-combustible absorbent material around the flues and beneath the grate, and flues beneath the grate.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Risley, Ward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolting Reel.
Patent for a new and improved bolting-reel. This design "relate[s] to bolting-reels for flour-mills; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, having for their object to obtain lightness, strength, compactness, and cheapness of manufacture, as more particularly set forth hereinafter" (lines 8-13).
Date:
March 27, 1883
Creator:
Phillips, Edwin Samuel & Kealy, Stephen Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "relates to the shearing device of a cotton-stalk cutter; and it consists in a novel construction of the share or blade, which is made to lie comparatively flat on the ground and to sever the stalk with a hand-shear cut" (lines 7-11).
Date:
March 27, 1883
Creator:
Stone, James Micajah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap
Patent for Fly Trap
Date:
March 27, 1917
Creator:
Krueger, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door
Patent is for car door and support. It goes on to explain that the car door and support were created to serve as a means of forming an efficient rain-proof closure when the door is moved into closed position. Another object is to provide sufficient means for slide-able support for the door and locking mechanisms.
Date:
March 27, 1915
Creator:
Minton, S. F. & McClellen, R. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a pipe wrench. "One object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient" (lines 12-14) pipe wrench. "Another object of the invention is to obviate the use of link connections and yet obtain a positive binding action off the jaws upon the pipe, bolt, or other object to which the device may be applied." (lines 15-19)
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Coffman, Seburn E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Construction.
Patent for window construction improvements to allow for construction of fireproof windows with fireproof sashes which are easily removable for repair or replacement. Improvements include method of securing glass in sashes without using putty, and sashes which will close automatically when subjected to "an unusually high temperature" (line 29).
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Miller, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor.
Patent for a new and useful wave motor, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine.
Patent for improvements to the class of explosive engine for a motor vehicle and internal gas combustion engine, including illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1917
Creator:
Murray, Harry A.; Dorman, William T. & Pollard, Claude
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Line support
Patent for an adjustable support for clothes lines.
Date:
March 27, 1917
Creator:
Lott, Truman R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn-Table.
Patent for a turn table that is "used for turning locomotives engines end to end; and the object of [the] invention is to provide a simple lever attachment for an ordinary turn-table, by which one man may easily turn the table and its load, and also to arrange the lever mechanism so that it may be easily locked in place when not in use and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 8-16).
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Gear For Pneumatic Cotton-Feeders.
Patent for a new and improved valve gear for pneumatic cotton feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Williams, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Ice-Machines
Patent for an improved make and design for ice-machines including instructions for construction and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1877
Creator:
Rankin, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographers' Bath-Warmers
Patent for keeping photographers' chemicals and bath water the same temperature throughout the liquids. The patent contains instructions and illustrations for the creation and use of the invention.
Date:
March 27, 1877
Creator:
Fellrath, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History