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Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.
Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
Date:
March 25, 1875
Creator:
Angers, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fan
Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Gollner, Ervin G. & Fretz, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp and Reflector for Same.
Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Cotton, Patrick H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a new and improved truss. This design consists in "the body-band consisting of a front piece adapted to fit around the abdomen, and a wire attached to each end of said front piece, shaped to conform to the body and spread apart to receive and rest upon the hip-bone, and straps secured to the opposite ends of said wires for fastening the band in place" (lines 43-50).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Davis, Andrew P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “taking seed-cotton from wagons or storehouses through pneumatic tubes and delivering it freed from dust and other extraneous matter to any number of gins. It includes devices for imparting flexibility to the feed-section of the tube for distributing the cotton and for disposing of the surplus when the cotton is supplied faster than it can be ginned.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert Smith; Hardwick, Sauny Warren & Elam, William Erwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that compresses "cotton as it is delivered from the gin into convenient shape and size of bundle, for facilitating the transportation thereof" (lines 12-15).
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Railway Conduit.
Patent for an electric railway conduit that is more efficient and durable. It has "guides for the traveling switch, one of said guides being a continuous one and the other a sectional one, one being insulated from the conduit and the other guide-strip (lines 16-20). The traveling switch moves in the conduit and on the sides of the guides. Only one section of the conduit is live at once, the one that a car is passing over.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Hull, William Sharkey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Nut Cracker.
Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Battery.
Patent for a simplified primary battery "whereby the parts thereof may be readily removed and replaced without special tools by unprofessional persons, while at the same time providing a construction of primary battery involving new and useful connections for the positive and negative elements thereof." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Street or Railway Cars.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in brakes for street or railway cars.
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Hughes, Joel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed Planter
Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date:
February 25, 1901
Creator:
Mills, William Cairill
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projectile.
Patent for improvements in projectiles for use in smooth-bore guns of any caliber, the same being so grooved or rifled as to insure rapid rotation and great accuracy and range in flight. (Lines 8-11.) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Croom, Alvis F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scaffold-Bracket
Patent for a scaffold-bracket.
Date:
February 25, 1902
Creator:
Arnold, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for "...a bicycle-frame so constructed that it is adapted to yield automatically...thereby doing away with the necessity of using pneumatic and puncturable tires..." (lines 10-11, 15-17) including illustrations.
Date:
March 25, 1902
Creator:
Smith, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry Ore-Concentrator.
Patent for a dry ore concentrator with illustrations included.
Date:
November 25, 1902
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators.
Patent for “ore-conveying surface for electrical separators, and particularly to a structure adapted for use with static electricity.” (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1902
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Magnetically and Statically Treating Ores
Patent for "a process for magnetically and statically treating ore to separate the valuable metal therefrom during its passage through a single machine" (lines 11-14). In particular, the treatment helps to remove magnetic particles that have sharp corners or points that may interfere with other processes.
Date:
October 5, 1901
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Makes gas generators more automatic making them less dangerous and less likely to cause an explosion.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for an improve to a Gas-Generator by controlling the liquid for decomposing the carbid in acetylene, by doing this the generation of gas is monitored and the waste of gas will not occur. This is an improvement to the Gas-Generator, this construct will have an automatic cut-off for the liquid-supply.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Water-heaters that can be more manufactured for a lower cost while heating water more quickly and work as a room heater for the bathroom.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe Fastener
Patent for a shoe fasteners in place of laces. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1904
Creator:
Martin, Samuel Harmon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer
Patent for a vaporizer. Illustration included.
Date:
April 25, 1905
Creator:
Beaumont, Godfrey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doffer.
Patent for a doffer for removing cotton lint from gin saw blades, which does not harm the saws and is very sturdy.
Date:
May 25, 1909
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History