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Cement Kiln
Patent for a new and improved cement kiln for drying gypsum and other materials employed in the manufacture of cement and plaster.
Date:
April 28, 1902
Creator:
Malone, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling
Patent for a coupler for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Brandt, Olof Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller.
Patent for a convertible corn and cotton planter, stalk-cutter, and roller. It has a main frame, a supplemental frame that has its front end hinged to the front of the main frame, a roller with circular journaled in the supplemental frame, transverse segment-plates with removable blades attached to the supplemental frame, spaces between the segment-plates, an axle, driving-wheels, a sprocket wheel and chain, feed-boxes, means for feeding the grain, and wheels for laying the ground and the coverers.
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Mauldin, Columbus Scott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Buncher.
Patent for an implement to thin and bunch young cotton plants, including illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Tynes, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Walker.
Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Lawson, Henry William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder
Patent for an improved copy holder design that is "adapted for holding stenographers' notebooks and other copies and equipped with an efficient line guide, capable of easy and rapid operation to drop the line indicating means from one line to another with perfect accuracy" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Wrede, Albin C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beet Puller and Topper.
Patent for a new machine to pull beets from the ground as moving chains cut off the leaves and deposit the beets into a bend.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Olson, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for improvements made to a baling press used to press cotton into bales. Improvements include improved construction to improve durability and efficiency, and design enhancements to the feeding belt to make retrieving the bales of cotton easier and more efficient.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Marek, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Lane, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Sawing Machine
Patent for a wood sawing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Evrett, Arch Letrobe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a tool to stretch telephone wire, barb wire, and wire fencing. The tool connects to and holds in place a wire using a lock. While locked in place, the wire is stretched without the need of chains.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Armstrong, Henry H. & Armstrong, H. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weeder.
Patent for a new adjustable-height weeder that attaches to a cultivator or lister and cultivates, weeds, or cuts field vegetation quickly.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Geurin, Henry E. & Dean, Walter D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for drilling well apparatuses that approximate the weight imposed so that the weight can be regulated to improve efficiency, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tub Holder
Patent for improvements made to tub holders, primarily to suit tubs of various sizes for heating water. Purposes for holding tubs include boiling water for clothes and food. The improvements focus on support of the tubs, and allow for rotation of tubs with ease and efficiency.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Dullnig, Adolph Cleveland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1868
Creator:
Kidd, I. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Cover.
Patent for a new and improved ventilating cover. This design "consists in the detailed construction of the same . . . whereby the contents of . . . vessels are protected from dust, insects, and all kinds of impurity, and at the same time are thoroughly ventilated by free communication with the atmosphere, and so that any gases arising from the contents of said vessels will not be confined with the contents, but will pass off through the ventilating-cover into the surrounding air" (lines 16-26).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Smith, Ralph Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
Patent for road scrapers, illustration included.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboiler
Patent for a wash boiler used to wash clothes with steam and water. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
Date:
April 28, 1868
Creator:
Kidd, I. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Boiler Indicator.
Patent for an improvement in steam boiler indicators to alert when the water has dropped below a specified threshold, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Marrs, Vollie B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Wheel
Patent for a trolley wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Neighbour, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mill-Carriage-Wheel Guard.
Patent for a new mill-carriage-wheel guard "to prevent obstruction falling on the wheels or on the [railroad] track, this guard also carries scrapers in front and in rear and on each side of the wheel, whereby the obstructions are scraped off the track." (Lines 23-28) This guard can be used with a wood-working machine carriages and/or rail.” Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Zimmerman, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch Cord Plug
Patent for a switch cord plug that can be adapted to cords and used with telephone switchboards. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Smith, Eugene Lamar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventors (No. 507,854). The improvements are that the "stock may be used in connection with any form of share needed for working a crop" (lines 14-16) and the plow provides "a sweep-stock with a point which will be integral with its shoe or foot-bar, and which will assist in holding the share in position" (lines 20-23).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Symmank, Herman & Matthijez, Ernst
System:
The Portal to Texas History