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Corn Planter
Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Robinson, Charles William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Electrical Weighing Scale.
Patent for a new and improved coin-operated electrical scale. This design "relates to improvements in electrical weighing-scales that may be tripped by electricity; and the main object of [the] invention is to so arrange the electric circuit that it may be closed for tripping the indicator by inserting within the machine a coin or like-shaped metallic piece" (lines 16-22).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Smith, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banana-Case
Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Aiken, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved planter attachment. This design consists "of a suitable hopper which is to be attached to the side of the beam, a spring-actuated seed-slide, an extension or support which projects from one end of the hopper, a pivoted lever placed upon the extension and connected to the seed-slide at one end, a strap connected to the outer end of the lever, and the singletree to which the draft animal is secured . . . to convert any ordinary plow or cultivator into a corn-planter . . . which is operated by the pivoted motion of the singletree as the draft animal moves forward" (lines 14-29).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Dean, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for an ant-trap with an inflexible bottom with a hole in the middle, a perpendicular section rough on the inside and smooth on the outside, and the perpendicular smooth sides are attached to the edges of the bottom. The trap has a device that prevents the ants from running around the trap.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Carter, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Cut-Off
Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Goodridge Wilson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Route-Indicator.
Patent for an improved route indicator for automobiles "which not only visually indicates the characteristics and risks of the road" but in addition provides an "auditory signal to call attention to approaching hazards or dangers" (lines 36-41). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Cranmer, Howard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Shoe.
Patent for new and useful Improvements in Casing-Shoes whose object is to "clamp around the tread of a tire casing for the purpose of reinforcing weak places in the casing, for repairing 'blow-outs' and for the purpose of preventing the 'skidding' of the vehicle" (lines 13-17), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Tuttle, Frank & Hall, Lewis T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Link.
Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
Date:
November 13, 1860
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor-Condensing Apparatus.
Patent for a vapor condensing system that utilizes a mixing chamber and several coils of tubing to produce a cooling effect. The application is suitable for ice machines, refrigeration plants and other systems.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Phillips, John Ernst
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for "revolving-cylinder seed-planters; and its object is to furnish a strong and durable implement adapted to plant with precision various kinds of seed, and the wheels of which are not liable to become clogged with earth." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 13, 1877
Creator:
Burris, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "has for its object to produce a machine which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency. To this end it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same" (lines 10-14).
Date:
November 13, 1883
Creator:
Snider, John J. & O'Bannon, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve for the improvement of flushing water in tanks. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Cahill, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Preventing Clogging of the Working Barrels of Pumps.
Patent for an apparatus that prevents the clogging of the working barrels of pumps.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Sticking or Sealing Machine.
Patent for a stamp sticking or sealing machine that is meant "to provide a device with a moistening pad capable of applying moisture to the mucilage of the stamps, and with a guide or way through which the stamps may be passed, and by which they are guided to and past the moistening pad; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction whereby the device is made capable of easier manipulation, whereby it may be held in one hand so as to cause the stamps to make contact with the pad, thus leaving the other hand of the operator free to draw the stamps over the pad and to affix them" (lines 8-21).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Shaw, James Tyus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Strainer.
Patent for a pump strainer for liquid wells that excludes sand and other foreign matter before it can foul the pump or wear its parts.
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment for Plows
Patent for a combined cotton, corn, and sugar-cane planter attachment for plows, which is intended "to provide a simple, cheap, and automatically operating planting attachment for plows which may be used for the planting of seeds of various kinds, as cotton, corn, sugar-cane, and the like, and which may be readily attached to and detached from a plow."
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Riewe, Friedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger
Patent for a post hole digger with an illustration.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Wall, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud Shoe.
Patent for a new and improved mud shoe. This design has for its object "to provide a device adapted to be worn over the ordinary boot or shoe and afford a convenient means for keeping the same out of the mud, dirt, or water; and the novelty consists in the detail of the construction and combination of the several parts" (lines 18-24).
Date:
November 13, 1883
Creator:
Carroll, Samuel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone.
Patent for a simple and effective magneto telephone with a newly designed apparatus that allows the telephone to better receive and transmit calls and "will receive its magnetism from the magnets of the magneto call" (lines 21-22).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling
Patent for a thill coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine
Patent for washing machine. This invention consists of two compartments: one for suds and rinsing water; the other to provide a washing drum. Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Leavens, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History