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Buggy-Top Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful buggy top attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Peikert, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "a new and improved machine of this character embodying continuous power mechanism, whereby the plunger is automatically operated. . .the employment, in connection with the press, of a plunger provided with a spring-actuated face, whereby the plunger is caused to rebound after each stroke for the purpose herein specified. . .to provide tension mechanism whereby both sides of the baling-chamber are tightened or released by a single adjustment" (13-26).
Date:
June 18, 1889
Creator:
Paty, John F. & Bigham, Ambrose W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Step.
Patent for a foldaway step that can be mounted on the side of a vehicle.
Date:
June 28, 1892
Creator:
Walton, Sam H. & Smith, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-blind and awning
Patent for a pair of swinging window blinds.
Date:
June 18, 1897
Creator:
Gluck, Solomon & Keach, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Hinge.
Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Running-Gear.
Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
Date:
June 12, 1906
Creator:
Singler, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine
Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Steinmann, Herman Werner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Packing Cotton
Patent for device used to compress and pack cotton into a press box.
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Summers, Dewitt C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles.
Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date:
June 10, 1873
Creator:
Hamil, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels.
Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 6, 1871
Creator:
Tuder, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner
Patent for an oil burner. Invention relates for the use with fireboxes of domestic ranges and stoves.
Date:
June 23, 1903
Creator:
Rumple, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Restaurant Serving Mechanism
Patent for a restaurant serving mechanism. The mechanism is a wagon-like structure intended to make serving food and cleaning up tables a more streamlined process.
Date:
June 30, 1920
Creator:
Mabry, Raymond A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting frame "pivotally attached to a suspending-bar, whereby either part may be brought beneath the arm of the sewing-machine without requiring the shifting of the goods to bring a new part into position to be quilted until after the exposed portions of the two parts have been quilted." (Lines 24-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Scoby, William E. & Spoonts, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint
Patent for a rail joint designed to simplify and improve the construction of railroads. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Jones, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Foot-Warmer
Patent for a device that uses electricity to provide warmth to a person's feet as well as any other parts of the body. It may be used in and out of a bed, and it may be used as "a light reflector for treating certain diseases by strong rays of light concentrated and applied directly to the body" (lines 17-20).
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Ballard, Silas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Ridge-Conduit
Patent for a new, original, and ornamental Design for a Ridge-Conduit.
Date:
June 20, 1916
Creator:
Zetak, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Joyce, Andrew Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Separator.
Patent for a new and useful cotton seed separator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Garrett, James Andis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot
Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picking Needle
Patent for a cotton picking needle that relates to machines for picking cotton. More particularly to a novel form of picking needle especially designed for use in connection with a picking machine of that type shown for example.
Date:
June 19, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Billie
System:
The Portal to Texas History