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Cotton-chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper mounted on wheels.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Walker, Millard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener
Patent for new and improved construction of wire tightener allows for post in place while wire is being fastened.
Date:
July 28, 1900
Creator:
Short, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Screen
Patent for "a new and improved window-screen which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to permit of readily placing the screen in position on the window or removing it therefrom and without requiring special runs or guideways and to allow of using the screen either inside or outside of the window, as desired" (lines 8-16)
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Holden, Elbridge G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wedge-Buckle.
Patent for improvements in wedge-buckles by using a “combination of a stiff plate having wedge-shaped side jaws, of the strap having an inwardly-curved spring portion terminating in projections and flanges which engage the jaws, and adapted to be straightened outwardly in clamping a belt of band between the plate and strap” to (Lines 18-24, p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
White, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Plate
Patent for improvements in lock-plates for the stays of wire fences.
Date:
March 22, 1900
Creator:
Wood, Alpheus H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Attachment for Bureaus.
Patent for an adjustable mirror attachment for bureaus.
Date:
November 6, 1900
Creator:
Horton, Mary Blanche
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
Hay Press
Patent for improvements of hay press to simplify construction and add locking device.
Date:
August 29, 1900
Creator:
Sherrer, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grapple.
Patent for a grapple, a device "for handling brick - that is, for moving brick from one point to another" (lines 13-14).
Date:
November 6, 1900
Creator:
Brownfield, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper.
Patent for stove-damper by using “a damper-valve which not only subserves the usuall function of an ordinary cooking-stove damper which works over the smoke-exit flue, but also acts as a draft regulating device to provide for regulating the draft the damper is thrown to a closed position.” (Lines 19-26) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Witcher, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floating Body.
Patent for improvements to balloons or floating bodies in order to provide for a floating body "consisting of a flexible air or gas receiver, made to imitate or resemble animate or inanimate objects, so as to assume when inflated the shape of a human head or bust, birds, statues, animals, or any other desired object" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
Date:
November 20, 1900
Creator:
Bailey, Edward Gray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for improvement of seed planter "adapted for the planting of various kinds of seeds" (lines 10-11) and addition of tilting movements, including illustrations.
Date:
June 25, 1900
Creator:
Wendtland, Wilhelm & Wunderlich, W. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders," an invention which "aims to provide a sash-holder of simple construction for supporting a sash at any elevation and which will secure it when closed against being opened from the outside."
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Hardy, Isham B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle.
Patent for an improved riding saddle that eliminates curling of saddle jockeys and chafing of rider's legs.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Hicks, Frank O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motion-Transmitter
Patent for a motion transmitter for wave motors, "the primary object of the invention being to produce motion-transmitting mechanism which will effect the conversion or translation of reciprocity motion into continuous rotary motion in the same direction."
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Walker, James Constant
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.
The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Smith, Millage M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for improvement of construction of wire stretcher for both mending and cutting wire.
Date:
November 20, 1900
Creator:
Passmore, Benjamine, H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivating-Plow.
Patent for "an improved cultivating-plow adapted for cultivating a number of rows of growing plants at a single operation" with improvements in connecting plow-beams to the axle, to devices for raising the plows from the ground, and in operating the cultivator.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Wells, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Planter.
Patent for improvement to the "manner of mounting and adjusting the swinging frames [of planters], and to enable the said swinging frames to be readily adjusted vertically" (lines 12-15).
Date:
November 6, 1900
Creator:
Graves, Elbert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History