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Truck.
Patent for a truck or hand cart useful for loading and unloading at depots. This hand cart has has a hand actuated lift for lifting objects to the height of the loading vehicle.
Date:
November 17, 1919
Creator:
Thomas, Theodore G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Head.
Patent for a pumping head involving two piston rods that are rigid and, if broken, can be replaced without harming the rest of the machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1914
Creator:
Boicourt, John L.
System:
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Combination Tie and Rail-Joint
Patent for improvement in the safety of tie and rail-joints. Improves the connection so that independent movement of the tie and rail is reduced.
Date:
November 17, 1914
Creator:
Knaus, John J.
System:
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Nutcracker.
Patent for a nutcracker that can crack all kinds of nuts, with relatively little force, on appropriate surfaces like tables. The Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1914
Creator:
Fort, Foster W.
System:
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Permutation-Lock.
Patent for a device of a permutation lock. One of its objects is to improve the permutation mechanism thereof and to provide novel means whereby the combination of the lock may be changed.
Date:
November 17, 1914
Creator:
Meepos, Max
System:
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Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator, which allows cotton to be chopped earlier and to be done by one person.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Agee, Jonathan F.
System:
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Buggy-Top Support
Patent for a buggy top support which has springs in it to absorb shocks from bumps and is compact.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Martin, Edward G. & Miller, Joseph S.
System:
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Combined Animal-Trap and Chicken-Coop.
Patent for a combined animal trap and chicken coop, which has a compartment attached to the coop that is a trap for rats and other animals.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Moore, Henry Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Kindler
Patent for an automatic fire kindler which can be put on a timer and start a fire in a stove with a bundle of matches inserted into the device ahead of time.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Bates, Samuel F.
System:
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Anchor Post
Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Small, Wily & Brock, John W.
System:
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Bat-Former.
Patent for a cotton bat former which uses a condenser and forms even bats to send to the bat presses. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
System:
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Machine for Rounding Leather.
Patent for a machine for rounding leather in harness making shops, which produces a uniform product and requires less time and effort than hand rounding leather.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Pfeifer, Reinhold A.
System:
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Wrench.
Patent for a wrench, which can used "as a nut wrench or a pipe wrench" (lines 18-19).
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolph E.
System:
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Indicator For Clocks or Watches
Patent for an improvement to clocks or watches that will display an indicator when the timepiece needs to be re-wound.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolph E.
System:
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Vending Machine
Patent for a vending machine. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene Stites & Wilmore, S. E.
System:
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Spur Attachment For Stirrups
Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Poorter, Charles Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud-Scraper.
Patent for a mud scraper attachment for vehicles, which prevents mud from getting in the wheels of the vehicle on muddy dirt roads.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Whitaker, Ira Paschal
System:
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Sunshade-Gear for Personal Wear.
Patent for a wearable sunshade, which is worn over the shoulders and allows free movement of the body while in use and has holders for farm tools included on the sunshade holding device.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Ridout, William Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor-Cylinder.
Patent for a governor cylinder for engines to keep the engine doing only a set amount of work.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Cude, Charles R.
System:
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Running-Gear for Plows.
Patent for a running gear attachment for a plow to change a walking plow to a sulky(riding) plow.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Awtrey, Leland L.
System:
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Saddle
Patent for a saddle. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Moore, Sidney S.
System:
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Metallic End Yoke For Railway Cars
Patent for a metallic end yoke for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Kimbrough, Sidney W.; Watkins, William E. & McCarley, James W.
System:
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Railway-Crossing.
Patent for a railway crossing track, which does not jar the train's wheels as it passes over the crossing.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Adams, Powell O.
System:
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Match Box
Patent for match box. This invention is designed to push matches forward and ejecting it without disturbing the other matches remaining in the box. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Kerley, Melvie V.
System:
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