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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Drag-Sawing Machine.
Patent for improvements in "sawing-machines adapted for using both circular and reciprocating saws, and especially designed for general sawing in cabinet-makers’ and carpenters’ shops, its object being to provide for the proper guiding and support of the reciprocating saw and for the ready adjustment and firm maintenance of the articles to be sawed in proper position.” (Lines 9-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Economy Air-Brake Apparatus
Patent for improvements to railway air-brake apparatuses, including specifications for such improvements.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Canion, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Grapple
Patent for a fish-grapple device with parts "embodying prongs or hooks which will engage the fish and prevent its escape" (lines 16-17).
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Batla, Thomas, H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Car-Step.
Patent for "a supplemental folding step which may be lowered into position for use when passengers are boarding or leaving a [railway] car and which may be folded back out of the way when the train is about to leave the station." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for a crate that is "readily folded into a small compass when not in use and easily unfolded and adjusted, so as to serve the purpose of an ordinary crate, and when so adjusted it will be as rigid as though of ordinary construction." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hausmann, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the suspended rolling gate [and] the toggle-jointed levers . . . connecting the gate with a fixed point" (lines 102-104). It further consists in a lever "pivoted at one end to a fixed point, the lever pivoted to [another] lever near the outer end of the latter, the lower end of the lever being attached to the free end of the lever, the pivoted hand-levers fulcrumed on opposite sides of the gate, and the rod connecting the inner ends of the said hand levers with the connected ends of the [other] levers" (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, John Coleman & Rainey, Willain Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head Rest for Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for chairs. This design consists in "[a] head-rest for chairs, comprising a top support . . . a plate fixed thereto and provided with a socket and guides . . . a ball, fitting socket, and retaining-jaws held in the guide of the plate around the ball" (lines 81-86).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Ashby, Daniel 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
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying the Cutting Ant.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for destroying the cutting ants in their nests." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Fenner, Ferdinand A. & Power, John H.
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
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
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
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
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