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Churn-Dasher.
Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Franklin, Edward R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins
Patent for a condenser for cleaning cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Riemenschneider, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells.
Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Baca, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Box Clip.
Patent for an inexpensive improvement to cigar box clips or clamps, that will make it easier for the box to be left open at a tilted angle, for the purpose of displaying the cigars or other objects inside.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Holder, Andrew Thomas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power
Patent for an improvement to a churning by allowing a churn to be attached to a sewing machine. The churn and sewing machine could then be used separately or at the same time.
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Tag.
Patent for a new and improved animal tag. This design "consists in an animal-tag formed of a tube provided with a removable cover and an elongated staple for the strap, by which this tube is held to the animal" (lines 11-14).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Queen, Elias G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. This device includes improvements that allow the machine's operators to control the movement and the position of the hoes of the cotton chopper.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Jezek, Anton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle.
Patent for improvements to vehicle structure. This includes adjustments to the wheel base for better steering movements and vehicle capacity.
Date:
November 21, 1922
Creator:
Furlong, Martin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad.
Patent for an improved knee pad, which provides better ventilation and cushioning to the knee, including illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1922
Creator:
Rylander, Parrish H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Screen
Patent for a well screen. This invention is intended to screen sand used in well drilling. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing and Lifting Device
Patent for a weighing and lifting device. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Davis, James W. & Alexander, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a new and useful kitchen cabinet, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Goodale, Frank O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.
Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1871
Creator:
Sivley, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Flatau, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thimble.
Patent for an improved design of thimble which includes a needle-threader and a thread-cutter that can be used without removal of the thimble from the finger through the design of metal cone shapes as part of the thimble's design.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Huntington, Spencer Hinsdale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stapling Machine
Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Kennedy, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piston Packing
Patent for extansible rings for piston packing.
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Miles, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint
Patent for Rail Joint
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Walker, Asa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow
Patent for a sulky plow. This invention is designed to "provide a simple, durable, and highly efficient means for angularly adjusting the rear caster or follower wheel, which runs in the newly-made furrow" (lines 16-19). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Zant, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy
Patent for a toy. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Whitefield, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved machine for "distributing poison upon vines and plants that will be under the complete control of one man and which is operation will not injure the plants being treated and which will also insure an equal distribution of poison simultaneously upon three to seven or more rows of plants" (line 7 - 14).
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Richter, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alarm for Incubators
Patent for an alarm that sounds upon the temperature in an incubator either increasing or decreasing.
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Poore, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Mechanism.
Patent for a trolley mechanism that is a pivoting "yoke adapted to normally follow being swerved out of line when the car is going around curve of the trolley wire; to prevent catching on cross-wires in case the trolley wheel should leave the line-wire; and to adjust the amount of pivotal action of said yoke with regard to the trolley pole" (lines 13-20).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History