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Artificial Stone
Patent for artificial stone.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Gaines, Thomas Kemp
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
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
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
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
Cinder-Guard
Patent for cinder guard.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese & Tuggle, Samuel Ritchie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the necessity of providing outside collars" (lines 17-27).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Carleton, Ernest WIlliam
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
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
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
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a machine "for the purpose of cleaning the cotton before it is ginned, and thus free it from foreign substances and produce a better grade of cotton than that which is ginned without being previously cleaned" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Tucker, Stephen
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
Detachable Draft Appliance
Patent for a detachable draft appliance.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Segal, Mordecai
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Duplex Door-Check Holder and Buffer
Patent for door check holder for preventing doors from slamming and holding them in open position. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Kibbe, Isaac Pease
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound.
Patent for a mixture of chemical for preserving eggs; ingredients, measurement and instruction are in included. No illustration.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Brooks, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eight-Lens Telescope.
Patent for improvements in refracting-telescopes in which the instrument may be readily and accurately focused by adjustment of the lenses within the telescoping sections; and by having one or more perforated diaphragms for avoiding errors due to spherical aberration, an adjustable and removable transmitter for the light passing through the object-glass, for the purpose of toning the quantity of light. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Explosion Engine Starter
Patent for a new type of automobile starter, able to replace the hand crank. This device will be able to start the automobile without having to turn a crank, It will attach to the crank shaft of the engine and make it much easier to start the automobile.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Miller, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foot for Plow-Stocks.
Patent for improvements in plows by using the combination of “two forwardly-curved bars which clamped to a plow-beam, and the heel having its forward end rigidly secured between the lower ends of the bars and its rear portion bent upwardly and forwardly and secured between the bars.” (Lines 94-100) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Brown, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Waist Adjuster.
Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hurst, Albert K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Producer.
Patent for an improvement to a gas producing apparatus which makes gas continuously from "combustible material mixed with air and the subsequent combination of gases formed by the decomposition" (lines 13-15) of resulting gases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hirt, Jules H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammer
Patent for a hammer
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Rowe, George Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hobble-Arch for Cultivators.
Patent for a new hobble arch that laterally adjusts shovel beams of cultivators without stripping shaft threads.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Rutledge, Robert P.; Boland, Randsome G. & Devault, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher.
Patent for improvements in devices of attachments for wagons or similar wheeled vehicles, by improving “the attachment to the brake rod or shaft of the wagon, connected also with the bolts which secure the shafts or pole in the clips on the wagon-axle, by means of which the brake-shaft may be rocked so as to apply the brakes and stop the wagon, hold the shafts or pole, and thus disconnect them from the wagon.” (Lines 16-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
McMorries, James
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