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Oil Filter
Patent for Oil Filter
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Armstrong, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Picker.
Patent for an inexpensive, efficient, and durable fruit-picker that picks small fruit and does not bruise them. The picker is easily operated.
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Armstrong, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a Planter that is adjustable used to drops seeds, forming a covered furrow so that sub-soil may be plowed.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Baker, Gustavus A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful washing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1900
Creator:
Biggs, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Door For Freight-Cars.
Patent for a new and useful grain door for freight cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1900
Creator:
Boyers, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.
Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Bridges, Mary Jane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for an improved model of wrench, designed to work upon the bore of tubes, thimbles, and other forms of pipes. This invention improves on the construction of the wrench, allowing it to be inserted in the end of a tube, and when rotated, be effectively engaged with the tube to turn the same.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Brown, Charley S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Hook
Patent for improved harness and trace connector.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Conn, Isaac D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Generating Plant
Patent for improvements in steam-generating plants. The most notable change is that the boiler proper is separate from the furnace proper but still contains the water, steam, and fire tubes.
Date:
March 6, 1919
Creator:
Connelley, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Hook.
Patent for a simple and durable latch hame-hook that holds trace links in place. It is two plates, one of which is slotted to hold the tongue of the other plate.
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Dankworth, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plow stocks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1900
Creator:
Fillip, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Heading Machine
Patent for machine that aids in the harvest and processing of Kafir corn.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Forbes, Cullen C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curling-Iron Heater.
Patent for "an improved attachment for gas burners or lamps, which will be adapted to facilitate the heating of curling irons or other light articles" (lines 8-11).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Fowler, Samuel O. & Taylor, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Treadle-Spring.
Patent for an improved treadle spring to be used in treadles that are used in sewing machines, scroll-saws, and similar machines. It is simple, inexpensive, efficient, and requires less effort to operate the treadle. The spring does not move while in use.
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Frank, Gustav, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glove Holder.
Patent for a new and improved glove holder. This design "is to provide a new and improved device for holding gloves, bills, papers, and other articles in such a manner that any one of the articles can be withdrawn from the holder without disturbing the rest" (lines 7-12).
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Franklin, Eduard, A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Locking, Nut.
Patent for a "simple and efficient device" for "securely holding a nut upon a bolt" (lines 76-77).
Date:
March 6, 1906
Creator:
Galliher, Lawrence M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape
Patent for a fire escape "which will be capable of lowering people or goods for a high structure with perfect ease and comfort, and without danger of breaking" (lines 21-24) while also being "very simple and durable of construction thoroughly efficient in operation, and cheap to manufacture" (lines 26-28).
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Glasscock, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a valve for suction and blower conduits. This particular device is designed for use in cotton ginneries and saw mills.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Guice, Bengamen R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay and Cotton Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is for "[a]n improved device for retaining a compressed bale in its condensed state after the follower is withdrawn, which consists of pawls pivoted in holes in the sides of the press-box and projecting toward the rear end of the press-box . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the follower rack-bar, the pinions, the shafts, having suitable pulleys, adapted to be connected by belts, of two clutches, and a centrally-pivoted lever having [a] handle, whereby the power may be reversed without changing the direction of the drive-shaft" (lines 71-83).
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Hampton, John Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calculating-Machine
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in calculating machines. Whereby substantially correct calculations may be registered or recored without using a series of superfluous or immaterial numbers. The machine will round prices up to the nearest cent. For example, $0.024 becomes $0.02 while $0.025 becomes $0.03. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Hardgrave, Everett J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawmill Carriage Track
Patent for Sawmill Carriage Track. This device allows for the logs to be held in place on a straight line while lining up for timber production.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Heard, Wm. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a more durable and simple in construction, efficient in operation, and can also double as a planter.
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Heller, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Screening and Selecting Means for Cotton Gins
Patent for a seed screening and selection means for cotton gins. This invention was made as a reference to seed screening and selecting means for cotton gins and its object is to provide for the cleaning of the seed from burs or other deleterious matter or selecting certain batches of seed as may be desired.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Henson, William Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bin.
Patent for a new and improved bin. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a casing having bearing blocks or shoulders, a tilting bin located in said casing and provided with a sloping top, and an automatic cover placed loosely in the casing above the shoulders and provided on the under side, near its front edge, with a cleat fitting within the upper part of the bin, whereby said cover is adapted to close the upright bin and limit its forward movement when opened" (lines 7-16).
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Hunter, Edward T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History