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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a tool to stretch telephone wire, barb wire, and wire fencing. The tool connects to and holds in place a wire using a lock. While locked in place, the wire is stretched without the need of chains.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Armstrong, Henry H. & Armstrong, H. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Stock Or Standard.
Patent for new and useful improvements in plow stocks or standards. including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Armstrong, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
Baker, Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Feeder and Band-Cutter for Thrashing-Machines.
Patent for improvements to grain-feeders for thrashing machines design including illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1882
Creator:
Barlow, Thomas James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Making Machine.
Patent for a mattress-making machine that presses the material and forces it into a mattress. The mattress is "suitably held at one end of the machine, guide-strips being provided to hold the material forming the filling for the mattress straight and smooth while being forced into the tick" (lines 19-23).
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Bates, Frances Marian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for improvements in "construction of tilting gates and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be readily opened and closed at a distance fron either side of it by a person in a vehicle or on horseback" (lines 11-16).
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Berkley, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a gate that swings outward whenever it is unlatched that consists of an eye-joint that connects the gate to the post that turns vertically and horizontally, an extended toprail, a lever, and a pivot.
Date:
February 14, 1893
Creator:
Chadwick, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for "a device that will chop cotton mechanically" (line 10-11) and require less labor including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 5, 1915
Creator:
Crum, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Poultry-Disinfector
Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Donathan, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dust Box.
Patent for a new and improved dust-box. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a floor having an aperture cut into it and provided with a door flush with the surface of the floor, of a dust-box having a square bottom and diverging sides formed with outwardly-projecting flanges re-enforced upon their under sides by plates or bars and having strips secured to the inner sides, having their upper ends bent inward" (lines 76-83).
Date:
August 17, 1886
Creator:
Ethridge, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Ladder.
Patent for a new and improved folding ladder. This design consists in "the combination, with main supporting-strips, of recessed auxiliary strips connected thereto, rounds formed with bows, sections which pass through the recesses of the auxiliary strips, and stops which bear against the main supporting strips, and strengthening strips, through which the bows of the rounds pass" (lines 77-84).
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Ethridge, William Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rack for Displaying Dry Goods
Patent for improvements in construction of racks for displaying dry goods.
Date:
July 2, 1889
Creator:
Fain, Emmet C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case
Patent for new and useful improvements to show cases.
Date:
April 30, 1889
Creator:
Fain, Emmet C. & Poston, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hedge.
Patent for a new way to plant hedges, which "consists in an improved method of planting and training the cactus-plant (preferably of the species known as the 'scabbard' or 'brush cactus') to adapt it to form a thick and impenetrable fence which shall resist the attacks of cattle, and will grow regularly and evenly after the young plants have been properly trained" (lines 13-20).
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Fleming, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Mill.
Patent for a new and improved coffee mill. This design consists of "the combination of the case having the chambers and the hopper, the burr or grinding disk, fastened to the lower end of the inner side of the hopper and to the upper side or top of the chamber . . . shaft, having a disk, revolving in a covered recess or chamber in the burr, bridge, screws, and handle" (lines 57-65).
Date:
June 13, 1882
Creator:
Fleming, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen.
Patent for a new and improved fireplace screen. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be suspended in front of open fireplaces or grates for the purpose of preventing the frequent and sometimes fatal accidents which are directly due to the absence of reliable safe-guards. The invention consists of a series of shields or plates of suitable size and material, which are so connected that when not in use they may be easily drawn upward in succession side by side and compactly placed in an appropriate receptacle attached to the front of a mantel or to a wall above a fireplace" (lines 16-29).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Gibson, Nathaniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for a combined water-cooler and refrigerator. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of devices of this character and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one capable of enabling the temperature of its contents to be readily controlled and quickly changed. A further object of the invention is to provide a combined water-cooler and refrigerator which may be advantageously employed as a churn-body" (lines 10-19). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1900
Creator:
Halford, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Measure and Tally.
Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Holland, John Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for improvements in the construction and operation of cotton choppers and cultivators.
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Hutto, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee - Pot.
Patent for a new and useful coffee pot, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 19, 1898
Creator:
Ingle, Jacob Odem
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a hame fastener "by which the ends can be securely connected together, but which may be readily disconnected when desired." (lines 10-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
Jones, David G. & Jones, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design "has relation to that class of devices for keeping vessels containing milk or other fluids cool, in which water is drawn by capillary action from a receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the vessel, cooling the vessel and its contents by evaporation; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device, and more particularly to the top of the can and the cover for the same" (lines 21-30).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Jowell, George Ratcliff
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Friction Wagon Slide.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).
Date:
July 27, 1886
Creator:
Jowell, George Ratcliff.
System:
The Portal to Texas History