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Agricultural Implement
Patent for a novel and improved implement of this general character including a plurality of supporting members provided with ground working elements together with a body positioned upon said supporting members and wherein said said supporting members and body are capable of relative movement transversely of the direction of travel of the implement.
Date:
August 7, 1917
Creator:
Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap
Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Howard, Martin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced-Valve Testing and Locking Device.
Patent for "a simple testing and locking device for balanced valves of locomotives, the testing device being so placed with relation to the valve that it may be accurately determined whether the valve on one or the other side of the engine is leaking without removing the outer plates form the valve-casing or removing the covers from the steam-chest." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Sadler, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for "car-replacers or wrecking-frogs employed for guiding the wheels of a derailed car or locomotive to the rails." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
Hawkins, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle-guard mounted on cross-ties and braces with exposed wires to permit identification of damaged wires and to be readily repaired without disturbing the remaining wires, which lists the parts for construction and illustration.
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Meador, Edgar T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Holder.
Patent for a cattle-holder, which provides the "novel means for confining cattle and holding them in an upright position against movement" (Lines 14-16).
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Terrell, Joseph E.; Terrell, William. & Montgomery, Franklin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Change-Speed Gearing
Patent for "power transmission for automobiles... provides a driving shaft and a driven shaft arranged in alignment, and a countershaft which parallels the driving and driven shafts and carries a set of gears that continuously mesh."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Relle, William A. So
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a novel churn "whereby the dasher or agitator carried by staff or stem within the churn body will be simultaneously rotated and reciprocated...and the reciprocation will effectively agitate the contents of the churn for churning the same" (lines 14-21), with illustrations.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Logan, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clinometer or Slope Measurer.
Patent for a new and improved clinometer. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for taking measurements in prismoidal formula and to avoid the calculation of the triangle and enable the slope to be readily written from the instrument" (lines 16-21). It "compris[es] the square composed of the stationary short bar or arm and the stationary long bar or arm rigidly secured to one side of the short arm or bar and provided on its face with a spirit-level and having a scale of graduations of which the length of the short bar or arm is the unit, the curved brace connecting the said parts" (lines 60-68).
Date:
January 6, 1891
Creator:
Parks, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock-Actuated Display Apparatus.
Patent for a clock actuated display apparatus comprising a casing, a spring-pressed rotatable reel, and display tape adapted to wind which will cause the drum to rotate.
Date:
November 20, 1917
Creator:
Shure, Ralph Deane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber and Mop
Patent for a combined mop and scrubber. The invention consists of a brush, mop, wringer, and water receptacle.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Shaw, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves or heaters. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Risley, Carolile
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Washer
Patent for a detachable Washer which can be applied or removed from a bolt, without having to remove the bolt itself.
Date:
August 8, 1922
Creator:
Dubbs, Sylvester S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator
Patent for improvements to a disk cultivators which allows for the disks to hit the ground at various angles, thus improving cultivation,
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Atkinson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator
Patent for an improvement on disk cultivators. This makes it easier to arrange the wheels on the disk cultivators to be able to work on the soil on land of different shapes and sizes.
Date:
December 30, 1914
Creator:
Craddock, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hog-Yoke.
Patent for a hog yoke, which prevents hogs from crawling under fences and rooting up their pen.
Date:
November 8, 1910
Creator:
McCarroll, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Map Hanger
Patent for improvements in map hangers. The purpose is to provide a map exhibiting hanger to use in support for a plurality of maps, particularly maps that have information on the back.
Date:
January 31, 1922
Creator:
Chunn, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mine-Sweeper and Ship-Shield
Patent for protecting a ship from mines with a net that serves as a "mine sweeper and ship shield" (lines 9-10). It is also for collecting underwater weapons and improving the net.
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Coin, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mirror-Supporting Device.
Patent for a mirror supporting device for use in supporting mirrors from a window pane.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
McClelland, James B., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for improvement in nuts-locks whereby a nut is coupled to a bolt by a washer with a pivoted tooth.
Date:
September 18, 1917
Creator:
Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for new improvements to oil-burners in stoves and furnaces providing "a proper inlet of air to fire generated on the hearth" (lines 14-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1912
Creator:
Braly, Hugh L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Holder
Patent for a pipe-holder that is designed "to provide a novel, conveniently operated, effective and compact pipeholder" (line 8-10).
Date:
July 7, 1919
Creator:
Heckman, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Puller
Patent for a pipe puller design to be used in wells.
Date:
September 30, 1919
Creator:
Heckman, J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump
Patent for a pump for the purpose to pump out rising water in deep wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 6, 1904
Creator:
Leithauser, Peter Jerome
System:
The Portal to Texas History