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Automatic Weighing Machine
Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Gresham, Louis David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for Baling Press
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Jones, Isaac V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods.
Patent for a rod sleeve to protect the rod joints from damage or bending. The design also includes rollers to keep the rods centered in the casing to eliminate rubbing.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Rack.
Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, facilitates the unrolling of the cloth" (lines 21-32).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Palmer, William Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Baugh, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Oiling Railway-Tracks.
Patent for improvements in mechanism for “applying oil to curves and switches of street railway tracks” (lines 6-7) by using an “oil-tank [that] is arranged in the upper position of the hood or shield over the car-wheel. The valve is in the bottom of the oil-space and may be controlled by a lever arranged to turn or lift in the valve, and under the valve is arranged the oiling-wheel, which runs lightly on the track or face of the car-wheel and applied the oil." (Page 2, lines 69-76) Includes illustration.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Ennis, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling-press used for baling cotton "in which the cotton-bat is wound into a cylindrical form without the use of a metal or similar core" (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Killingsworth, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ink, Pen, and Penholder Carrier.
Patent for a combination case for ink, pens, and penholders or pencils. It is "an inkwell and pen-box with tubes parallel with the sides thereof to form a small compact parcel occupying the least possible space" (lines 10-13).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Scougale, Malcolm
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Ball Harvester
Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Monk, R. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.
Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
McFarland, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine.
Patent for a well-drilling machine with "novel and improved means for manipulating and actuating the drill cable" (lines 11-12), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.
Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Gray, Charles B. & Teter, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs
Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater.
Patent for a water heater for use in small spaces. This water heater heats water rapidly and is less costly as well as smaller than a standard boiler.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Damm, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie
Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Thweatt, Robert Whitley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Setting Machine
Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Steam Engine
Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Dickson, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for "an Improved Cotton-Bale Tie" (line 5) including illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1874
Creator:
Krone, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1874
Creator:
Ewing, Nathaniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Callihan. Willie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a mechanism to lock a nut in place on a bolt that also automatically releases when a wrench is applied to turn the nut.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Edwards, Whitfield H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milking Apparatus
Patent for a milking apparatus. This invention is designed to imitate the action of hand milking or a calf's sucking. Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Sinclair, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer
Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History