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Drill Bit
Patent for drill bit, adapted for use in boring (or drilling) of oil wells with bit shank and enlarged head of angularly mounted rotary cutters (for outward cutting of well walls).
Date:
January 3, 1922
Creator:
Thomas, Martin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
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Walking Seed-Planter
Patent for an improved walking seed-planter.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Thomas, Joseph H.
System:
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Mail Bag Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved fastening for mail bags. This design "consists of a chain fixed to one side of the bag so as to swing on the lower edge, and having hooks, or, it may be, curved or straight studs, which are made to pass through eyes of the two sides of the bag and around or through another chain on the other side of the bag, making a very simple fastening that is equally secure as the staple fastening now in use and much more readily manufactured" (lines 7-16).
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Scott, Roy B.
System:
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Wire-Fence Clip
Patent for a clip for wire fences. Illustration included.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Howard, Mentor
System:
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Windmill.
Patent for a windmill, which transmits its energy better to the pump and can be adjusted into and out of the wind.
Date:
December 13, 1910
Creator:
Dwight, James L.
System:
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Improvement in Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Smith, Edgar J.
System:
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Violin Bow
Patent for an addition to tip of the violin bow, including illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Roark, B. Mortimer
System:
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Valve
Patent for a valve for rotary steam engines.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Faulkner, Thomas F.
System:
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Laundry Apparatus.
Patent for a laundry apparatus with a detachable head that can be used on any kind of support for roller washers.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Merritt, Rex C.
System:
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Improvements in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Flow, James
System:
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Improvement in Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
Date:
December 24, 1872
Creator:
Willhite, Joseph
System:
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Well Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Arnold, James S.
System:
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Improvement in Pitmen.
Patent for "a new and and useful Improvment in Crank and Pitman;" (lines 3-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Kealy, Thomas
System:
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Trap.
Patent for a star shaped fish or animal trap, which has spring triggered entry points that allow animals in but not out.
Date:
January 19, 1909
Creator:
Hendrix, Julius M.
System:
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Train-Order Signal.
Patent for a train order signal device, which sets off an alarm or signal when the train order pad is removed, which cannot be turned off until the pad is replaced.
Date:
November 24, 1908
Creator:
Van Zandt, Luther H.
System:
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Train-Order Signal.
Patent for a train order signal, which prevents accidental clear signals from the semaphores by requiring the train order pad to be replaced before a signal can be given.
Date:
May 18, 1909
Creator:
Gates, William T.
System:
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Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.
Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1870
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
System:
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Milling-Machine.
Patent for a milling machine that executes thorough removal of dirt and other substances.
Date:
February 3, 1914
Creator:
Lakey, William Ray.
System:
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Milling Machine.
Patent for an improvement for milling machines to thoroughly remove dirt and other substances to improve the quality of product.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Lakey, William R.
System:
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Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 15, 1878
Creator:
Ames, Theodore George
System:
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Thill Or Tongue Support
Patent for a thill or tongue support. This invention is designed for use with horse buggies. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Roark, Lafayette L.
System:
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Stalk Breaker Or Reducer
Patent for a stalk breaker or reducer. Illustration included.
Date:
October 10, 1905
Creator:
Johnson, Robert L. & Robertson, William W.
System:
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