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Attachment for Riding-Cultivators and Other Agricultural Implements
Patent for an attachment for riding cultivators and other agricultural implements which has an adjustable point that allows the same depth of furrow to be made across undulating ground.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Simpson, Charles Neil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool
Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date:
October 18, 1904
Creator:
Millican, Wilber Ashby
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Ball, William Rossem
System:
The Portal to Texas History
combination lock
Patent for a combination lock. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdinand S. & Tucker, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy.
Patent for a new and improved faucet with a toy attachment. This design "relates to faucets for soda-fountains and the like; and it consists in providing the same with a jointed figure or automaton adapted to be operated by the escaping fluid" (lines 21-25).
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aquarium.
Patent for an ornamental suspension aquarium with easily removed plug or stopper for refreshing the water with illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Howard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design is "to simplify the means employed for providing at will recesses of different depths in the wheel, and also to provide means whereby a recess of both greater width and depth can be provided for cotton-seed than for corn, whereby the cotton-seed can be fed from the hopper in a more certain, free, and efficient manner than heretofore" (lines 23-31).
Date:
March 20, 1883
Creator:
Holland, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a tool that is comprised of a hammer, wrench, staple puller, wire cutter, and a claw. Includes illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Burkhalter, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Torpedo.
Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top.
Patent for an adjustable carriage top for protection from the weather. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date:
November 2, 1886
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship-Destroyer.
Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Pest-Destroying Machine
Patent for a machine that destroys boll weevils and other agricultural pests. It distributes moisture and poisonous powder that adheres to plants.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunlap, Sam H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new and useful improvements in wrenches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Rollins, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire stretchers: "provide a wire stretcher of simple, durable, and economic construction, capable of being applied to a wire and supported upon s post or maintained in working position between posts or uprights" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Brannon, Walter Zebulin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vine-Cutter.
Patent for a vine cutter that is meant "to simplify the construction of devices of this character by means of an integral formation of the cutter" (lines 8-10). It can be "adapted to be applied to a plow standard or foot consisting of a pair of cutting knives or shares integrally connected by a front cross-piece with a single central opening therein for the passage therethrough of a single securing bolt, the knives being rearwardly divergent and obliquely arranged at a downward angle, the lower edges of said knives or shares being sharpened and their rear ends curved upwardly, the said lower edges of the knives or shares adjacent to the said cross-piece being formed blunt" (lines 90-102).
Date:
March 14, 1893
Creator:
Wheeler, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Drawers.
Patent for an improved water drawer, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
June 11, 1878
Creator:
McC. Mathes, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for a compound for destroying weevils, rats and mice.
Date:
July 11, 1882
Creator:
Wheeler, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.
Patent for "improvement in machines for building and rerolling wire fences" (lines 4-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Edge, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magazine-Projectile
Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Fender
Patent for fenders for truck wheels using hoods and reinforcing bands, including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Leach, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Ring Holder.
Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date:
January 16, 1917
Creator:
Kropp, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Forms
Patent for a locking device for forms that will not crush the edges of circular forms.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Irvin, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History