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Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in cotton conveying and cleaning apparatus by using the combination of “a rearwardly-open feeder and a conveyer in position to receive cotton discharge at the rear of the feeder” (lines 103-105), as a result when a conveyer bring “cotton to the feeder, it would provide a branch in position to take up the cotton delivered by the conveyer” (lines 106-108) thus preventing undue accumulation of excess cotton and continuous movement of the cotton in all the parts. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Saunie W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator and Gin-Feeder.
Patent for an inexpensive cotton-elevator and gin-feeder that is easy to assemble and have removable screens and suspended chutes and feeders. Suction draws the cotton through the distributing trunk, and gravity drops the cotton into a gin. These concepts are also outlined in the inventor's previous patents, Nos 472,607 and 488,446.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Murray, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Brush
Patent for "a cheap, durable, efficient, and simple brush adapted for use in cotton-gins, the parts of which may readily be assembled or detached for purposes of construction, renewal, replacement, or repair" (lines 9-14).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Swann, Warner Minor & Swann, Richard Tompkins
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Ledbetter, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder
Patent for a new "Cotton-Gin Feeder, Drier, and Cleaner" (line 6.) for the purpose of disintegrating "dry, and clean damp and dirty seed-cotton" (lines 10-11).
Date:
May 12, 1900
Creator:
Brown, Charles William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shade and Curtain Fixture
Patent for a fixture that holds a variety of curtain rod sizes, preventing the need to mount a new fixture every time a rod is mounted.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Staten, Claude S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running-Gear for Aeroplanes.
Patent for an improvement to the running gear of aeroplanes in which the running gear can be moved out of the way so as not to create unnecessary head resistance when the plane is in flight.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
McCarroll, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage Burning Furnace
Patent for a new and useful garbage burning furnace that burns garbage efficiently in a combustion chamber. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Stokes, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Jointer.
Patent for a new and improved saw-jointer. This design consists in "two casts having longitudinal triangular grooves upon their inner facing sides, having the lower portions of their inner facing sides cut away to form a longitudinal groove, and having the upper portions of their inner facing sides bulged to form longitudinal halves of a socket, with a screw passing through the castings in the space between the bulged socket portions and the longitudinal grooves, the said grooves being adapted to receive a triangular file having its lower face at right angles to the sides of the groove" (lines 64-76).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, Francis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shank-Stiffener and Heel-Plate for Shoes.
Patent for "shank stiffener and heel securing plate for use in the manufacture of shoes or in the repair work" (lines 25-27) to prevent or repair buckling, loosening, and breaking of heels due to shanks of soles being made from "leather, compressed paper, or steel" (lines 18-19) which historically have not been able to support the heel of the shoe.
Date:
May 7, 1918
Creator:
Cobler, Lee Ora
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roofing-Tile.
Patent for an improved plastic roofing tile with sealing, locking, pseudo-dove tail joints.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Martin, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor.
Patent for a tractor in which the placement of the power source reduces dead weight and provides a low center of gravity, thereby increasing stability.
Date:
May 24, 1921
Creator:
Martin, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for improvements on money-changing machines to include multiple coin holding tubes and require the user to push only one key lever for change.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus for money changing and recording. The apparatus selects and ejects coins and is controlled by keys that can be pressed.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights
Patent for an improved electric light control switch design meant to decrease the rate of energy consumption.
Date:
May 13, 1919
Creator:
Davis, James Mattison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting and Stepping Machine
Patent for a cutting and stepping machine meant to replace a human cutter.
Date:
May 6, 1919
Creator:
Moore, L. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Nut Cracker.
Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dielectric Separator
Patent for an apparatus that "separates substances of different dielectric capacities" (lines 12-13). Illustrations included.
Date:
May 19, 1908
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account Book
Patent for an account book that is to be used "to receive in condensed form the dates and other particulars when sums are due to and from a person or firm are payable" (p. 2).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Goldberg, Samuel W. & Tillmann, Emanuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner with beater arms attached to the shaft of the machine.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
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Cotton Cleaning and Feeding Mechanism
Patent for a mechanism designed to cleanse cotton of dust or other foreign particles or objects before being fed. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cistern
Patent for the "class of cisterns used to catch rain-water from the roofs of houses or other places" (lines 9-11); including illustration and instructions
Date:
May 15, 1900
Creator:
Harry, Hugh W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple planter that is "adapted to plant either corn or cotton and that at predetermined distances; to so construct the machine as to adapt it readily for change from one form of planter to the other; and to improve the manner of securing the furrow-opening shovel-carrying standard and the seed tube, whereby the former and latter are prevented from breaking or becoming injured should they contact with a stone, stump, or other obstacle of sufficient size and firmness to injure them" (lines 10-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plastic Base for Poles.
Patent for a plastic base for poles which aims to lengthen the life of the average pole and enable the use of poles of shorter lengths.
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Hoyle, Millard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History