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Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Abrams, Frederic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seal-Padlock
Patent for a seal padlock, designed to "render it absolutely impossible to gain access to the interior of the lock" (lines 12-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Abrams, Frederic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a burglar alarm device that is triggered by the movement of a door or window, including illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Alderman, Joseph S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Machine
Patent for a weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
August 16, 1910
Creator:
Allison, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Tug.
Patent for a new and improved hame-tug. This design "relates to a hame and trace attachment, having for its object to provide a simple, strong, and durable device to connect the front end of the trace chain or strap to the hame, whereby the movement of the said chain or strap is prevented from wearing the parts, and thus necessitating frequent repair or replacement" (lines 9-16).
Date:
September 18, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Charley N. & McPhaill, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevating-Truck.
Patent for new improvements for a portable elevating truck, used for handling and storing heavy material to stack on each other. (referred to as "decking") using an endless chain on an incline.
Date:
November 11, 1919
Creator:
Anderson, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevating Truck.
Patent for elevating truck equipped with a conveyor belt powered by an electric motor. The device is "easily moved about and placed in position by one or two men" (lines 29–30), but powerful enough to lift bales of cotton (or other objects) weighing up to 600 pounds, includes illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Anderson, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sunshade Holder
Patent for a sunshade holder. Illustration included.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Atkinson, Earl H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street-Cleaning Machine
Patent for a street-cleaning machine that brushes the dirt into small piles and sucks the dirt piles into bags or receptacles for easy disposal.
Date:
January 14, 1919
Creator:
Atkinson, Wiley F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running-Gear for Plows.
Patent for a running gear attachment for a plow to change a walking plow to a sulky(riding) plow.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Awtrey, Leland L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of making tire-fillers
Patent for the process of making tire fillers that relates to the fillers for tire casings and the process of producing the same.
Date:
September 9, 1919
Creator:
Aycock, Edward F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a clothes-pounder that is simple and effective with the operator using the minimum amount of energy. It is conical with a smaller cone inside it. A diaphragm is between the cones and the brace, and an is air vent inside it.
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Bain, WIlliam W. & Bain, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silo.
Patent for an improvement of a silo that includes a sliding door, including illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Barker, Judge F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pruning Implement.
Patent for a new and improved pruner. This design "has relation to that class of pruning elements in which a concave chisel-edge is formed in the upper end of the blade and one concave jaw of a pair of pruning-shears is formed at the lower end of the blade, while a saw is attached to one side of the blade and a pivoted jaw is attached to the lower end, operating together with the lower concave edge, and it contemplates certain improvements upon the pruning implement [of an earlier patent]" (lines 19-29).
Date:
August 17, 1886
Creator:
Bartly, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bassinger, Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Bates, General Lowel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Machine
Patent for a wire fence machine. This invention is designed to tie wires to the line wires and line wires to the stay. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Baumgartner, Blassie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Pressure Regulator
Patent for a fluid pressure regulator which regulates the supply of steam and oil to an oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Beech, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Ellis County, Texas
Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Ellis County, Texas.
Date:
October 13, 1911
Creator:
Bennett, Frank; Burke, R. T. (Richard Thomas Avon) & Lounsbury, Clarence
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planting Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for a planting attachment for cultivators. This attachment is designed to raise and lower equally to contours of the land. Illustration included.
Date:
July 14, 1903
Creator:
Benton, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment
Patent for a cotton chopper attachment that can be applied to the frames of cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
Berry, Harvey Scott
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for a bedstead on rubber wheels which allows easy removal of the wheels to fit the bed through narrow doorways.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Blacknell, Elihu
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Lighting System.
Patent for an invention as specified relates to new and useful improvements in telephone lighting systems for the purpose of providing lamps on subscribers' telephones arranged.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Boze, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plumb-Level.
Patent for a plumb-level with combined compass and line sights.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Bradshaw, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History