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Bat-Making Machine.
Patent for a cotton bat making machine which allows the cotton lint to be positioned better on the press and the outer bag material covering the cotton lint to be attached together quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper attachment, which can be connected to a cultivator to thin cotton.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Joiner, Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core-Drill.
Patent for a core drill for making bore holes in rocks to get out solid samples of the inside of rocks, which has an improved grabbing method for retrieving the piece of rock inside the hole.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
McLoughlin, Malacha J. & Wynn, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Baling-Press
Patent for an automatic hay baling press which has more packing devices for feeding the hay into the press than previous versions.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Rahm, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.
Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Peeples, Rufus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for for a new cloth-measuring machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Fishing-Floats.
Patent for a device to attach fishing floats to fishing lines.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Davis, Samuel William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead-fastener. This design "relates to the construction of a fastener for bedsteads, the object of the invention being to provide a fastener by which the parts are firmly held together and prevented from springing; and to these ends the invention consists of certain details of construction and combination of parts" (lines 8-14).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Dickey, John S. & McKinney, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety Target.
Patent for a target device for pistols and rifles which allows for the motion of the target being hit to move another target into view.
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Briggs, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binding Attachment for Baling-Presses.
Patent for bale binding devices that takes wire from spools and binds each bale and then twists the ends of the bale so they hold their shape.
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Leavitt, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink Feeder for Pens.
Patent for a wire attachment to be added to the hollow of a writing pen. This attachment would enable more ink to be drawn into the interior of the pen, therefore allowing more words to be written from a single dip into an ink well.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Hine, Frank B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Dolly.
Patent for a lumber dolly, which has an anti-tilting device that can be used while loading or unloading the dolly.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Lott, Andrew Gains
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricated Bullet.
Patent for lubricated lead bullets to prevent the deterioration and rusting of the inner barrel of rifled firearms, so as to maintain their accuracy. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Stewardson, Samuel Clinton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Smothers, Thomas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Lamps
Patent for the construction of a combined oil burning lamp and candlestick.
Date:
August 3, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gear
Patent for improvements in motor vehicle transmissions in which all gears mesh at one time as opposed to being shifted and are "obtained by clutching different selected drive gears to the drive shaft of the transmission." (lines 18-20)
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Downie, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Opening or Closing Elevator-Doors.
Patent for a device which is mounted upon the traveling car and automatically opens and closes elevator doors. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Chester L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine
Patent for "a new and improved steam-engine, in which the pressure of the live steam is completely and very advantageously utilized," (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Rush, Peter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel.
Patent for a new type of swivel. This swivel allows for adjustments without removing any parts on the outside of the swivel. The parts are also made more simplistic and of stronger material.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Layne, Mahon E. & Hall, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a combined nut lock and washer for use on railroad track joints.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Casing-Repair Tool.
Patent for improvements in the tools for repairing blow outs or punctures in parts of tire casings or shoes. Illustration is provided.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Tingle, Claude
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lace-Rack.
Patent for an improved design for a lace-rack, or a container to stow away lace boards. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 3, 1912
Creator:
Jones, Laurence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold-Board For Plows
Patent for an improvement for the mold boards for plows, adapted for cultivation of sandy soil to disarrange and break the furrow slice on and over the mold board. Included are detail illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Kelly, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for a tonsilotome/enucleator for cutting the tonsils out during a tonsillectomy without injuring the pillars.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Combs, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History