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Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.
Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baling and Compress Machine.
Patent for a combined baling and compress machine for cotton gins, which makes bales that fulfill the rules of transportation companies on cotton bale density and is cost efficient enough for small gins to purchase.
Date:
June 8, 1909
Creator:
Crow, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus
Patent for canning apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
March 30, 1909
Creator:
Brown, William N.; Brown, Clyde V. & Brown, Lester L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus.
Patent for an improved boiling apparatus for canning.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Still, Cuthbert A. Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airship that is equipped with gas bags to control the ascent and descent of the airship and make it float in case of landing in the water.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Bradshaw, John F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "is to promote convenience in operating baling-presses and increase the efficiency of said presses. The invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 14, 1882
Creator:
Smith, William Fredric
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Tightener
Patent for an improvement in belt fasteners, "especially adapted for use in connection with the running belts of planning, sizing, matching, molding and like machines" (lines 10-12) so that belts may be adjusted to tighten or loosen easily.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Noble, John B. & Hensley, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and effective cotton chopper that leaves the plants in bunches that is easily operated and uses a reciprocating motion to rotate the blades and chop the stalks.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Hyde, Frank Sule
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a coupling for air-brakes, of the movable arm having the recess or socket, and the pivoted arm having the shoulder or offset adapted to fit the recess and provided with the [other] arm to direct the said shoulder or offset to the said recess when the coupling-arms come together, the said shoulder and recess forming the terminals of the air-pipes at the ends of the cars" (lines 92-100).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the draw-head provided with a flange upon one of its sides, ways for securing said draw-head in place and allowing it a longitudinal movement, an abutment which is secured to said ways upon one side, a hook which is pivoted in the draw-head on the side opposite to the flange, which hook is provided with a weight for keeping it normally closed, and which has a notch formed upon its pivotal end, and a latch which is pivoted to one side of the draw-head" (lines 64-74).
Date:
December 30, 1884
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for a cloth cleaning machine to "furnish bagging-reels, so constructed that the bagging can be conveniently unwound from the roll, measured automatically, and again wound into a roll" (lines 13-17).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for for a new cloth-measuring machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Blast-Generator.
Patent for "a new and improved automatic blast-generator designed for the use of jewelers, dentists, and other persons, and arranged to produce a steady and uniform blast and to permit of increasing or decreasing the force of the blast as required, according to the nature of the work on hand." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Sidwell, Aaron M., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Operating Mechanism.
Patent for a new type of pump operator mechanism with a "novel mounting for the air compressing pump" (lines 18-19) and a more compact form. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 18, 1917
Creator:
Feagin, Luther W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Seal.
Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date:
October 20, 1916
Creator:
Wright, Memory G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bracket.
Patent for an improvement on agricultural brackets that allow for easier and more secure connection and support to a variety of agricultural implements.
Date:
June 8, 1920
Creator:
Wright, Joseph Hansel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rolling Fender
Patent for improvements in rolling fenders. The invention can be attached to an earth working device, such as a cultivator, to prevent clods of dirt being thrown and crushing small plants. Multiple discs will crush the clods and prevent the dirt from sticking to the rolling fender.
Date:
May 3, 1921
Creator:
Wright, Joseph Hansel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Puller.
Patent for "the provision of a device adapted to be secured on the hub of the wheel for pulling the automobile out of mud or sand where the wheel would ordinarily spin without propelling the vehicle" (lines 11-16). It also includes an illustration.
Date:
October 25, 1921
Creator:
Wright, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Reeling Apparatus
Patent for a wheeled spool for commercial construction and telecommunications wire.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Landside for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved plow landside. This design "consists in a landside for plows made with a slotted flange to rest upon the forward side of the plow-standard, and a flange to rest upon the bottom of the furrow, whereby the plow will be made stronger, more durable, and more effective, and will be made to run steadier . . . The object of this invention is to increase the strength and durability of plow-plates, and obtain the efficiency and steadiness of ordinary turn-plows without their weight" (lines 21-31).
Date:
August 21, 1883
Creator:
Wherry, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Axle
Patent for a lubricating axle.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Birdwell, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for an improved folding ironing-table that has "its top pivoted to the longer of two pairs of legs, the shorter pair designed to hold a cross bar which is adapted to support the table top about midway its length, when the table is opened and set up for use" (lines 18-22).
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Coleman, Robert Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lapel-Spring for Coats.
Patent for improvements in lapel-springs for coats and similar articles of clothing by using a loop-shaped spring and a rod or bar pivotally connected with or hinged to both ends of the spring. It will hold the lapels of a coat or similar garment in proper position. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Crow, Robert Dlouglas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck
Patent for a conventional truck designed to lift heavy freight above the ground.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History