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Buckle-Making Machine
Patent for a buckle making machine for forming wires into tie buckles for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Rail-Joint
Patent for a rail joint designed without bolts. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Crawford, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses
Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Woolery, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Rail-Joint
Patent for a rail joint designed without bolts. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Crawford, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lift Pump
Patent for an air lift pump. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 30, 1912
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H. & Underwood, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for "useful improvements in combined cotton choppers and cultivators" (lines 10-11) including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Arnold, Willard M. ; W. M. Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling
Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Roquemore, Peter G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for an ant trap,with illustrations. Purpose of the invention was to be efficient more efficient in both cost and use in comparison to other ant traps being sold at the time.
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Davis, Edwin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for novel improvements concerning hay baling presses.
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Denman, William Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolster-Standard.
Patent for a durable, simple, and easily applied bolster-standard meant to be secured to the bolster and does not allow the bolster to split or crack.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder for Record-Books, &c.
Patent for a simple and efficient copy-holder meant for recording things. The invention feeds paper line by line, so the records are straight. The copy-holder also holds the pages of a book in place.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Powell, Phanor P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude Oil Burner
Patent for crude oil burner allowing for the utilization of "crude petroleum and other similar oils" (line 13) for fuel.
Date:
July 30, 1918
Creator:
Worley, Ernest T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Tank.
Patent for improved water-tank of which will provide a construction to prevent leakage, bruising, and warping of the wood and in which water will be kept cool and clean.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Evans, Edwin Fousiiee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1850
Creator:
Milner, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for fumigation insect destroyer, in particular cotton boll weevils, but also for prairie dogs and other vermin.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Koy, August & Kveton, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Mouth-Speculum.
Patent for a mouth speculum for use by veterinarians to hold open the mouths of animals during surgeries on their teeth.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Rutherford, Frank E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver.
Patent for life preserver worn on the human body and inflated with a valve attached to rubber tubes. Includes illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Graham, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bucket.
Patent for a well bucket with a float attachment to prevent the bucket from hitting the bottom of the well and stirring up sand or mud.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Thomas, Eliga Moran
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Fastenings.
Patent for improvements in economical and durable hame-fastening.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churn-Motors
Patent for an improvement in churn-motors, which would allow for the motor to run faster or slower as needed, with illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Julius A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a thill-coupling that has a clip-eye, pivot-bolt, and an open-slotted thill-iron that has flat and extended jaws with a hole. The jaws are lined up with the thill-iron, meant to secure a railroad spike into place. The invention also has a flat bar-spring attached to the thill-iron.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Dibrell, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pressing and Drying Garments.
Patent for pressing and drying pantaloons and garments which includes a hollow form made of sheet metal that is closed steam-tight and uses a steam pipe inside to dry the garments.
Date:
October 8, 1881
Creator:
Wolf, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Seat.
Patent for seats which are easy to set up and take down as temporary seating for events and which can be folded up in small pieces for storage.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Garrison, Thomas Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Forming Round Bales.
Patent for a method making round cotton bales at cotton gins more efficiently by providing a way of winding the bat of cotton into a ball in between press runs.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History