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Plant-Supporting Device
Patent for a simple form of a plant supporting and sticking device for gardeners and agriculturalists, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Allen, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone
Patent for a Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone that combines all of the previous items into one and can be easily and cheaply mass-produced for commercial sale.
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Asano, George K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Clock
Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Barnett, John Beverly & Turner, W. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Root Crop Harvester
Patent for a root crop harvester. This invention is designed for the harvesting of peanuts, potatoes, sugar beets, turnips, onions, etc. Illustration included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Bourland, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.
Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Brown, John Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Bryan, Walter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Seat Recorder.
Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus and enables the record to be made by slitting the strip when the seat is depressed" (lines 22-33).
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine
Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Cassel, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grass Destroyer
Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Coker, Alvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives
Patent for an automatically adjustable headlight for locomotives or streetcars which rotates when the vehicle is tilted going around a curve to allow the light to shine around the curve.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Cooper, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing Device
Patent for a horseshoeing device that immobilizes the horse's leg in multiple positions for ease of shoeing.
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Crumley, Birdie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rubberized Fabric and Rubber Tire.
Patent for rubberized fabric and rubber tires.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Dees, Mark A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Dewald, Louis & Dewald, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1897
Creator:
Dycus, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy.
Patent for a toy which features a rabbit figure that moves in such a way as to "simulate the galloping of a rabbit" (lines 61-62). Illustrations included.
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Fermier, Victor Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improvement to the plow by providing a plastic or plastic-like material to help sticky, thick soil and clay to glide over the surface and decrease frictional resistance, including illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Fleehearty, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Nut-Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that is used to fix railroad tracks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Forbes, Alston J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Hub.
Patent for a new and improved wheel-hub. This design "relates to that class of wheel-hubs which are made up of several parts in order that they may be cast in metal; and the object of the invention is to adapt the mortise-piece of the hub to be cast independently of the flanges, to form a positive clamp for the shoulders, and the protect the bearings from sand" (lines 8-15).
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Buggy Tops
Patent for an attachment for buggy tops. Illustration included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Fullerton, Phillip Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery Connector
Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hale, Noah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Operating and Locking Means.
Patent for an "invention that relates to new and useful improvements in gates and particularly that class which swing in a vertical plane." (Lines 12-14)
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hoffman, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Boring-Drill
Patent for a roller boring drill in which "the cutting rollers are arranged on the drill in a novel manner." Object of invention is to keep the drill centered in the hole to prevent wobbling.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Boring-Drill
Patent for roller boring drill that provides the cutting device to maintain clearance of the drill-head and can be adjusted to compensate for wear.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Hyland, Robert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History