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Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Operating Churns, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for operating churns, ice cream freezers, or the like, and is meant "to produce an apparatus in which there is simultaneously given to the vessel a revolving motion and a revolving or vibrating motion to the agitator working in the vessel" (lines 14-18).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Preserving Wooden Poles
Patent for an apparatus for preserving treated wooden poles. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Logan, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Recutting Files.
Patent for a new and improved file re-cutter. This design consists "[i]n an apparatus for recutting files by electro-chemical action, the dialectric plates and the carbon plates having their upper ends attached to said non-conducting plates, whereby the files to be recut are disposed between the carbon plates when in the solution" (lines 76-82).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Emley, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Training Troop in the Pointing of Guns
Patent for improvements to apparatus to train troops in pointing and aiming various firearms. An electric lamp shines light through a tube to point at the target, with a shutter that can operate simultaneously with the trigger or remain open.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Place, Olney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp Attachment
Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Date:
April 2, 1918
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Articulating Plate
Patent for "new and useful articulating plate" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
April 11, 1900
Creator:
Driskill, T. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fly Fish Hook
Patent for an artificial fly fish hook. Illustration included.
Date:
April 27, 1909
Creator:
Caldwell, Charley D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone
Patent for artificial stone.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Steger, Virge
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone
Patent for artificial stone.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Gaines, Thomas Kemp
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb.
Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wilson, Hence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Band-Saws
Patent for an attachment for band-saws.
Date:
April 7, 1903
Creator:
Catudal, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Display Figures
Patent for an attachment for display figures that fills out the sleeves of a garment.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Beyette, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Ice-Boxes.
Patent for an attachment for ice-boxes which is "a vessel for the reception of ice and having a surrounding series of compartments for the reception of the matter to be refrigerated" (lines 11-14).
Date:
April 3, 1900
Creator:
Moyes, Aceph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS
Patent for an Attachment for Internal Combustion Motors. This new attachment provides many improvements in the regulation of auxiliary air, whether it enters or leaves the internal combustion motor (Shine). It also regulates hot or cold air, or can shut off the air supply entirely (Shine).
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Shine, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Kitchen-Cabinets
Patent for an attachment for kitchen cabinets that has a mechanism for measuring out flour and other dry ingredients, a knife sharpener, and a breadboard.
Date:
April 16, 1912
Creator:
P'Pool, Frank E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Mowers
Patent for a dividing and feeding mower attachment to guide grain into the cutters of the mowers in an upright position.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Mosely, Jimmie E.
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
Attachment to Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for cotton gins. This design "consists of a lever-frame journaled to the gin-frame and carrying a shaft provided with a friction-pulley which may, by will of the operator, be thrown in contact with the driving-pulley of the gin, thus rotating the shaft, which is provided with a set of cleaning-blades fitting between the gin-saws between which they are, by the said mechanism, made to revolve rapidly, thus cleaning the said saws" (lines 18-27).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Steward, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auger.
Patent for a new auger designed "to provide a construction in which the parts may be adjusted to cut angular holes entirely through a body, and also to cut angular countersinks concentric with cylindrical openings, such as are made for the reception of the square heads of bolts lag screws, &c.," (lines 10-16), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 29, 1902
Creator:
Bundy, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air Device for Gas Engines.
Patent for a removable automatic air device for delivering air to gas engines in proportion to the speed of the engine.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Rivers, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Dump
Patent for automatic dumpers that can be readily and inexpensively fitted and adapted to most forms of dump car.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Putnam, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit-Closer Attachment for Telegraph-Keys
Patent for an attachment for telegraph keys, so that the line circuit closes automatically upon the release of the key.
Date:
April 30, 1918
Creator:
White, James L
System:
The Portal to Texas History