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Bale-Band Buckle
Patent for buckles used to hold bands of bales. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Patterson, James S. & Smith, Dallas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Registering and Denoting Device and Label-Holder.
Patent for a combined registering and denoting device and label holder for use in stores to keep track of how many items are sold and what is left in stock.
Date:
December 26, 1911
Creator:
Parten, Wilbur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher.
Patent for an improvement to devices that receive mail bags from moving locomotion.
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Ryan, Augustus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Cycle
Patent for a water cycle. This invention is propeller designed to provided driving force for the floating cycle. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Standard, Allie Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Electric-Car Line.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in elevated electric car lines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1899
Creator:
Cooley, Joe H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-press
Patent for a baling-press that will prevent hay or other material from jamming the mechanisms used to bale it.
Date:
December 8, 1900
Creator:
Dennis, Felix Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
McCaul, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History