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Rotary Engine.
Patent for an improvement in rotary engines, specifically in engines where the piston is operated by direct and expansive force of steam.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Carothers, Samuel Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bucket Strainer.
Patent for a well bucket strainer, which strains the water as it is pumped out.
Date:
December 20, 1910
Creator:
Clay, Willim F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flood-Gate.
Patent for a flood-gate meant for use in mill-dams, races, and levees. Its intended use is to allow water to come to a certain height, and automatically release water once it gets past that point. When the water returns to a reasonable height, the gate automatically closes.
Date:
December 26, 1893
Creator:
Dean, Asa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Goodin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroying Machine
Patent for an insect destroying machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 8, 1903
Creator:
Kelley, Michael C. & Terrell, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint, which does need bolts to fasten it together.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Perkins, Wallace P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton-cleaner that has the flue leading from the gin to the condenser. It is an improvement previously granted to the inventor (No. 506,134), where "dust-laden air will be effectually prevented from passing through the cleaning drum of the cleaner and mingling again with the cleaned cotton which is fed to the condenser" (lines 16-20).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Folding and Compressing Cotton Batting.
Patent for a new and improved cotton folder and compressor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a table provided with a series of transverse rolls of the same size, a reciprocating carriage mounted on the rolls, and a pair of super-imposed feeding-rolls arranged in line with the carriage, of a base arranged at the end of the table and provided with two opposite pairs of standards, the pair nearest the end of the table having vertically-opposite rolls, and the other pair of standards having a single roll, and a series of transverse feeding-rolls mounted on the base" (lines 46-57).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History