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Root-Puller.
Patent for a root puller for pulling up Mesquite tree root clumps.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
McGehee, George T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same.
Patent for a polish for varnished woodwork
Date:
September 14, 1914
Creator:
Hancock, John Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plumb-Level.
Patent for a new and useful level of " that class embodying a pivoted index-finger operating in conjunction with a graduated dial" (line 7 10).
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Jordan, John J. & Wallace, Olifford L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher
Patent for a horse releaser. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 12, 1909
Creator:
January, Moses Solomon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Case
Patent for a display case for holding cheese. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 29, 1909
Creator:
Simon, Alex H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door.
Patent for a door "that can be secured in either open or closed position either from the exterior or interior of the building on which the door is mounted" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Niemann, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an improved acetylene-gas generator with a carbid receptacle on top of of the gasometer an an improved automated valve mechanism to assist with gas maintenance.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
Loyer, William Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Overshoe For Horseshoes
Patent for a detachable overshoe for horseshoes. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Harmon, William O. & Smith, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Match and Cigar Safe.
Design patent for a match and cigar safe that looks like a house.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Weiss, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for "constructing a fumigator that the fire in the combustion-chamber may be caused to burn more rapidly in one part than in another, whereby the proportions of vapors and fumes may be governed at will." (Lines 45-50) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Cock, Lewis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a durable cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Porter, Harrison B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer.
Patent for "a new and improved cotton-distributer to provide a means for equalizing the distribution of cotton to a series of connected receptacles and for retaining the cotton in the receptacles until it is desirable to deliver it to the hoppers or feed devices for cotton-gins." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1900
Creator:
Parker, Joseph Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention allows for the interchangeability of different blades. Illustration included.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah Clark
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sweep.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-sweep. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame, having the longitudinal beams and with the detachable shanks of the blades or points each composed of the outer long arm and the inner short arm, making the front angle of about forty-five degrees with each other, and having their lower front edges sharpened" (lines 83-90).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Knight, Thaddeus Warsaw
Object Type:
Patent
System:
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Cotton-Packer.
Patent for an improvement that "relates to that class of cotton-packers which receive cotton from the condenser after ginning and pack it in a box preparatory to being pressed and tied into a bale; and its object is to provide means whereby the cotton may be packed int he box automatically" (lines 8-14).
Date:
September 29, 1885
Creator:
Hart, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
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Cotton Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the wheeled frame, the two laterally and vertically movable drag-bars jointed thereto, and each provided with shovels, the horizontal rotary-shaft lying between the drag-bars and provided with a blade arranged to revolve between the shovels of the respective beams, the transverse shaft mounted on the frame and connected by driving devices with the ground-wheel, and the intermediate shaft connected to the [other] shafts . . . by universal joints" (lines 17-27).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Hutchins, Charles Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Paolucci, Henry Emanuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for "a machine for planting corn or cotton, that may be attached to almost any kind of plow, simple in construction, easily repaired by an ordinary blacksmith, and capable of use in a satisfactory manner for planing where stumps and rocks would interfere with the operation of machines of ordinary construction" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 31, 1880
Creator:
Krüger, Theodore Charles Herman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
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