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Adding-Machine.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Brooks, Augustus J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Brake
Patent for air brakes. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Minnick, Hezekiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Cooling Apparatus.
Patent for an air cooling apparatus for air to be delivered into a room treated with moisture to reduce the temperature of the air without the use of ice.
Date:
March 21, 1916
Creator:
Hollenburger, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wringers and Washing-Machines
Patent for an attachment for wringers and washing machines that allows the washing machine to be moved directly from the washing tub to the rinsing tub.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Flood, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Device for Cutting Off the Flow of Ait Through Oil-Pipes
Patent for a device which automatically terminates air flow through an oil pipe by means of a float which travels within the oil pipe.
Date:
March 21, 1916
Creator:
Tucker, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the combination, with the follower, the right-and-left-screw, and nuts, of the hinged levers and the bars swiveled thereto; also, in the combination . . . of the slotted bars, the hinged socket, and the swiveled arms; also, in the combination, with the nuts having shoulders and the hinged levers having forked up ends, of the anti-friction rollers journaled in recesses in the said nuts; also . . . of the curved and flattened swiveled arms, whereby the lower ends of the said follower-bars can have a lateral movement" (lines 23-38).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses are to reduce the labor of smoothing even the bales and to make the operation safe by carefully arranging different parts of the machines. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Cutter
Patent for a band cutter. This invention is designed to cut bale-ties on cotton bales. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Manly, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Former
Patent for a cotton bat former that produces a bat of uniform size and weight.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Ball, Samuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Hawkins, Jackson D. & Ray, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body Stretcher
Patent for a body stretcher. This invention is for exercising and stretching muscles. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Seidler, William Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bread-Knife.
Patent for bread knives that consists of a plurality of knives spaced apart to cut the slices of uniform width.
Date:
March 21, 1916
Creator:
Roberts, Isaac F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle Connection.
Patent for a new buckle connection design "which is peculiarly adaptable to harness" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Savage, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy Support
Patent for a canopy support. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Raines, Henry & Gooch, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive churn that works efficiently and does not take up much space. It consists of a solid upper portion, a lower portion, a horizontal bar that connects the two, a bracing frame, a shaft, bearings, a band wheel attached to the shaft, an adjustable drive wheel, a crank wheel, and a dasher.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Gibson, Wyatt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothespin
Patent for an improved version of the clothespin, which is simple to use, durable, and cheap to manufacture.
Date:
March 21, 1922
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Destroying Boll-Weevil.
Patent for a compound for destroying Boll Weevils, consisting of Sulfur, Pine Tar, Asafetida, Pulverized Bluestone, Beaumont Oil, Extract of Tobacco, and a thick adhesive oil.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Armentrout, Richard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Concrete and Steel Tie.
Patent for a concrete and steel tie that is durable and holds the rails in place.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Westing, Aighting
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that can be used for cultivation.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Crow, Jesse J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping Attachment For Cultivators
Patent for a cotton chopping attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Brush.
Patent for a gin brush that operates at high speeds with a large diameter. "Centrifugal force exerts a great strain tending to dismember it, and further, if it be not at all times accurately balanced there is a tendency to spring the shaft and cause rattling in the bearings which results in rapid wear and failure to work well" (lines 13-19).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Elam, William E. & Thomas, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Vannoy, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drafting Machine
Patent for a machine designed for constructing or drafting geometric figures, including illustrations.
Date:
March 21, 1916
Creator:
Kreisle, Edwin Clinton & Hawkins, Lyndsay Dickason
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firearm
Patent for an automatic gun which reloads itself.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Consentino, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History