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Bale Tile
Patent for a bale tie for cotton bales.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Perry, Cornelius Doctor & Wosnig, Walter, E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a new and improved churn and cooler which allows for easier removal of the cooling liquid and includes illustrations and description.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Sibley, William P. & Williamson, Riley B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a bale tie that can withstand strain on the side of the band. The text describes the different parts of the bale tie and how it differs from ones currently used.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Franz, Ezra A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condensing Apparatus
Patent for a condensing apparatus designed to be attached to linting machines.
Date:
April 8, 1919
Creator:
Martin, G. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Lifter
Patent for an improved device that can be applied to a valve spring plate without losing grip.
Date:
April 8, 1920
Creator:
Chaney, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Water-Pipes
Patent for attachment for water pipes to prevent bursting of water pipes due to freezing of water while it passes through the pipes.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Finlay, John K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antispreading Device for Railway-Tracks.
Patent for improvement for preventing the railroad tracks from spreading by using a device to connect the ends of two parallel rail to connecting adjacent pair of rails.
Date:
April 8, 1919
Creator:
Stovall, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved wagon attachment. This design "relates to hay frames or racks for use with the ordinary box wagon-bodies; and it has for its object to provide a light frame or rack of simple construction adapted for adjustment to wagon boxes or bodies of different width and so constructed as to be folded in a compact form. To these ends the invention consists in a foldable hay frame or rack adapted to fit into a wagon-body and adapted for adjustment to such body; also, in structural features and combination of parts" (lines 19-30).
Date:
April 8, 1890
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock Stitch Ripper.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "relates to an improved combination tool or implement designed to be used in connection with sewing-machines, and combining in a convenient form several instruments which operators on sewing-machines should always have ready at hand" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 8, 1884
Creator:
Wheeler, Elijah Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lift or Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved elevator. This design "consists in the construction of the operating mechanism . . . whereby the mechanism may be regulated or adjusted to run fast or slow, according to the weight of the load to be carried, it being adjusted to run slow, but with great power, when heavy loads are to be lifted, but to run fast, but with lesser power, when lighter loads are to be lifted" (lines 28-37).
Date:
April 8, 1884
Creator:
Krause, Earnest.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incinerator
Patent for improvement in incinerators by unique arrangement of receiving passage and receiving post closing the lower end with a second passage inclining.
Date:
April 8, 1919
Creator:
McCutcheon, Joe Alford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Cotton-Seed Meal into Cakes
Patent for "an organized machine adapted to rapidly compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removal to a press, whereby the oil is expressed therefrom, and to deliver said cakes at a point or points in convenient proximity to said press or presses, so that the time and labor involved in preparing the meal for the, press and of inserting it therein will be reduced to the minimum" (lines 9-18).
Date:
April 8, 1890
Creator:
Price, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tents.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in military tents that relates to folding tents including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1873
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-wheel.
Patent for a vehicle wheel that does not wear down as quickly as those currently used and that better absorb shock. The text explains the different parts of the new wheel and why it is an improvement over current wheels.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Anderson, Lycurgus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum-Pan
Patent for "vacuum-pan having improved heating-sections and an improved form of discharge-chamber" [lines 9-11].
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
Ribaud, George Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement.
Patent for improvements in mechanical movements by using cranks and wrist pins to “converting rotary motion, like that of a wheel or pulley, into reciprocating motion.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
McKean, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hooks for Suspending Meat.
Patent for an improved meat suspending device that will prevent ants and insects from reaching meat, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling-Presses.
Patent for improvements to presses used for baling cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
McGowen, Edmond Felder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milo-Maize and Kafir Corn Header
Patent for a corn header that uses vertically adjustable heading devices that allows for some flexibility of the heading device with one of the ground wheels of the machine.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Jackson, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Scraper.
Patent for improvements in tongue-scrapers in which it will “not only used for scraping the coating from the tongue, but also for removing the small particles from the papillae which remain after the scraping operation.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
Hagerty, Ida
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proportionate Scale.
Patent for improvements in scales which would quickly and accurately determine the proportion of the lint contained in seed-cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
Brown, George Raymond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lacing-Eyelet.
Patent for the improved construction and efficiency of a Lacing-Eyelet. The device is used for supporting lacing in fashion wear, including shoes and corsets. Improvements include providing quicker implementation of the device without risk of damaging the garment it is used on. Additional improvements include the device having uniform and interchangeable parts which can be manufactured in quantities so as to be easily replaced if necessary. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1919
Creator:
Langford, Joseph O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Separating Associated Liquids.
Patent for an invention that "relates to the art of separating associated liquids" (lines 9-10).
Date:
April 8, 1919
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History