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Apparatus for Floating Vessels.
Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND CLEANING SEED COTTON
Patent for an improvement to the method of cleaning seeded cotton.
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
ELAM, WILLIAM E.; THOMAS, ROBERT S.; CRAWFORD, DWIGHT H. & HARDWICK, SAUNIE W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Penholders.
Patent for a simple and effective attachment for penholders. It is "readily and easily attached to a penholder, and which is adapted to protect the fingers of the hand and prevent them from coming in contact with the pen or with the inked portion of the holder" (lines 15-19).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
McDonald, Michael Shaw
System:
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Base Board
Patent for base board. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
Bryan, Augustus M.
System:
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Bread-Cutter
Patent for a bread cutter which can cut multiple loaves of bread in succession and cuts of the crust of the bread.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
Hassell, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Oil-Can and Oiler.
Patent for combined oil-can that "combines the function of an oiler and oil can" (lines 12-13) and "is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture and one which will be very efficient in operation" (lines 18-21).
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Tumey, Alfred S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Baling-Press
Patent for "a device capable of being applied to any horizontal baling-press for the purpose of compressing the charge of hay or other material before it enters the baling-chamber" (lines 10-14).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Bailey, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists in the improved machine . . . wherein a series of rods actuated by the main carrying-wheel are intermittently projected beyond the periphery of the latter at or about the time they approach the seed hopper, so that they may enter said hopper and cause the seed to be fed to the drill-tube" (lines 17-24).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas J. & Mitchell, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cutting Key Seats or the Like
Patent for a device for cutting key seats or the like. This invention is an improvement in metal working tools as they relate to key seat cutters. Illustration included.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
Lindstrom, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Digging Wells or Post Holes.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design consists in "the combination, with an annular head carrying cutters, of the block or bar, the arms secured at their upper ends to the bar or block and at their opposite ends to the head, the cylinder, and the yielding arms secured at one end to said bar and their opposite ends adapted to engage the upper edge of the cylinder" (lines 34-41).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Stephenson, Elam Grigory
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch.
Patent for an electric switch meant for the Edison three-wire system. It provides "means whereby the translating devices on either side of the middle wire may be supplied with electricity to the exclusion of those on the opposite side, the return-current from said translating devices being transmitted by way of the middle wire" (lines 11-16).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Mottram, William T. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filter.
Patent for Improvements in Filters specifically used to remove "impurities from gasoline and oil, to fit the gasolene or oil for reuse" (lines 11-13).
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Caen, George, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Alarm
Patent for improvements to fire alarms. Improvements include an alarm device that activates when the temperature rises to a certain degree.
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Merrell, Frederick R.
System:
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Folding Cot
Patent for
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Follett, Charles J.
System:
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Gage.
Patent for a gage that has a beam with a saw kerf at one end, a clamp made up of a tube with parallel wings that are inserted into the kerf, a scribing point in the tube, "and means for clamping the separated ends of the beam tightly against the parallel wings of the clamp" (lines 57-59).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holmes, Elijah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Or Cotton Press
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Hay or Cotton Presses" (lines 4-6), including illustrations.
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for a hay-press that has an improved plunger.
Date:
November 12, 1912
Creator:
Wetzig, Ernest L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher.
Patent for a device to release horses reins in the case of the horse running away.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
McDanill, John Riley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hot Box Cooler dated November 12, 1918
Patent for the implementation of improvements to hot box coolers. This will assist in the cooling of hot bearings in railway cars.
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Edward W. Hartough
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Impact-Motor.
Patent for a rotary motor "to provide a simple and efficient motor particularly adaptable for vehicle propulsion and which when once started in either direction will automatically arrange its valve to continue that direction of rotation" (lines 13-18), including illustrations.
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Hahn, Carl
System:
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Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for improvements in mowers and reapers.
Date:
November 12, 1867
Creator:
Tucker, A. W.
System:
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Incubator.
Patent for a poultry incubator that rotates the eggs (both automatically and manually) and includes humidity control.
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Crumpton, Enoch M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive oil lantern made to operate in strong winds. It is "easily handled and manipulated for adjusting and fastening the several parts thereof properly in position" (lines 17-19).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holden, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Leaf Turner
Patent for a music leaf turner that is operated by a foot lever.
Date:
November 12, 1912
Creator:
Jeter, Clell Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History