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Broom-Rack.
Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Smith, Walter I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for a bedstead. Illustration included.
Date:
October 31, 1905
Creator:
Davis, Augustus H.; Hummel, George F. & Gray, J. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter
Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date:
March 31, 1903
Creator:
Sylvester, C.T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Charm.
Patent for watch charms or badges with "interchangeable emblems" (lines 11-12) to facilitate on-demand charm or badge creation through a separate stock of emblem carriers and the "interchangeable emblems."
Date:
October 31, 1911
Creator:
Friedman, Bernhard Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Presses
Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Galbraith, Oscar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter.
Patent for a new part that attaches to an ordinary cultivator. The device has a plow that runs in front, and a planting mechanism that spreads seeds in the plowed rows. This device makes it possible to plough and plant in one sweep of the field.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Noren, Peter O. & Clyburn, Mile D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Popper
Patent for a corn popper that can also be used for roasting nuts or for general cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Young, George B. & Young, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Crowson, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for "an electric head-light which will adjust the carbons of the arc lamp without the usual vibration" (lines 12-14) and be more durable and efficient.
Date:
October 31, 1911
Creator:
Dooley, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bearing for Driving and Other Shafts.
Patent for a bearing or other driving shafts which can be easily removed without harming the rest of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 31, 1908
Creator:
Wiggs, James A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Horse Powers
Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Scraper Attachment for Disk Plows
Patent for an attachment for disk plows to "clean any disk in any kind of soil" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Fell, Julius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date:
August 31, 1909
Creator:
Mosher, Benjamin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Attachment.
Patent for a boiler attachment to regulate the boiler feed pump.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Morris, Gid M. & Watkins, J. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Penholder And Eraser
Patent for a combined penholder and eraser. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Tucker, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pipes
Patent for an attachment for pipes. Illustration included.
Date:
January 31, 1911
Creator:
Charles, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door Opener.
Patent for a car door opener, making it possible to open a car door without using a hammer or injuring oneself.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Gibson, Levi D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a bale-tie fastener including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Cypher, David A. & Dayton, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.
Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 31, 1896
Creator:
Flatau, Louis, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for chemical fire extinguishers "in which the acid-bottle consists of two concentric cylinders, the inner one of which is open at top and bottom, and which, when the bottle is placed in the cylinder containing the water and soda, potash, or other material, a compressed-air seal will be formed, preventing the acid and water from commingling; but when the bottle is inverted the seal will be broken, and the water and acid coming together will generate the gas." (Lines 18-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.
Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
White, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top Prop.
Patent for a new and improved prop for carriage tops. This design consists in "a prop-joint for vehicles, the combination of the bow, the prop-casting having the circumferential flanges lying against the opposite sides of the bow, and the opposite extension plates lying against and secured by screws to the rear edges of the bow" (lines 70-75).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pen or Pencil Holder and Pin.
Patent for a new and improved writing-utensil holder and pin. This design "not only forms a convenient receptacle for a pen or pencil, but . . . it is also adapted for use as an ornamental scarf or breast pin, and to this end the bands may be appropriately shaped to confine a stone or other setting, which can be held from endwise displacement, if necessary, by means of lugs . . . at each end of the bar" (lines 63-71).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Stewart, Samuel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History