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Steam-Turbine for Locomotives.
Patent for a compact mechanism related to steam turbines, which has positive geared connections with the driving access of the locomotive, resulting in reduced friction. This increases efficiency of the driving action while reduced the expenditure of elastic fluid in order to run smoothly.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Dumas, Joel Benjaman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spiral Ring.
Patent for a new and improved lap-ring. This design consists in a "lap-ring for connecting the tree-irons of double-trees and single-trees, consisting of the S-shaped lap-ring having the end curves spread laterally from the stem of the S, and carried round on spiral curves to points ninety degrees beyond a line that would evenly divide the figure thus formed longitudinally" (lines 41-48).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Brooks, George W.
System:
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Portable Water-Heater and Steam-Cooker
Patent for a portable water-heater and steam-cooker that "can be adapted for heating water for a variety of domestic purposes, such as for washing clothes and the like, and for supplying steam for scalding clothes, for cooking feed for stock, and for operating a churn or similar device" (lines 14-19).
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Staton, John William
System:
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Gin Saw Cleaner
Patent for a gin saw cleaner. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Pillow, James G.
System:
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Gate.
Patent for an automatic gate at railroad crossings, adaptable for use in "farm gates and automatic gates for carriage roads" (page 1, lines 11-12) using "an inclined cam disk, of a spring actuated lever" (page 4, lines 27-28), trip devices, and a bell or other signal, with illustrations.
Date:
January 24, 1893
Creator:
Neeb, William
System:
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Fred Regulator for Cotton Gins
Patent for a feed regulator for cotton gins. This invention is arranged for distributing and guiding cotton into the feeder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
McCreary, Lorenzo A.
System:
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Fish Catching Apparatus
Patent for a fish catching apparatus which will move artificial bait in the water to attract more fish.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
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Rein-Holder.
Patent for a new and useful rein holder, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Sewell, John S.
System:
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Sheaf-Carrier for Binders
Patent for sheaf carrier for binders which allows sheaves to be gathered without danger of them being dumped or dislodged and allow for automation of sheaf carrier arms.
Date:
July 13, 1909
Creator:
Pillow, James Gid
System:
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Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "a boiler, a cylinder journaled therein and having closed ends, its outer periphery composed of a series of open troughs arranged in pairs, the troughs in each pair opening toward each other, a series of open-ended funnel-shaped tubes arranged in a line drawn centrally around the periphery of the cylinder, [and] the said tubes extending inwardly from the outer face of the cylinder and having their contracted discharge ends near the center of the cylinder" (lines 22-32).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Rose, Horatio
System:
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Folding Box
Patent for paper box formed from a single blank which can be folded into compact form.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Hale, Lawrence F.
System:
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Pipe-Wrench
Patent for a self-adjustable pipe wrench that actively adapts to the material it is applied to by means of a moveable portion of the gripping jaw, with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 28, 1918
Creator:
Moore, Joseph D.
System:
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Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the whiffletree-support, the whiffletree, the hinge connecting such parts having its upper and lower plates secured, respectively, to the whiffletree and its support and jointed at their rear edges, and the arm or lever extended forward from the upper plate, whereby upward draft on said arm or lever will turn the whiffletree backward from its normal position to release the traces" (lines 91-100).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Harrison, George W.
System:
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Rotary Plow.
Patent for improvements in rotary plows which can be used as a subsoil-plow or it can be converted into a cultivator. The “purpose is to provide a novel gang-plow capable of cutting the soil at different depths, as circumstances may require, and in which the angle at which the plows enter the soil may be varied.” (Lines 18-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
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Cotton Bag Emptier
Patent for a portable derrick, that can be easily lifted and emptied.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Brown, Odis A.
System:
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Rotary Plow
Patent for a gang-plow to be used when gangs of disks are used to turn over the soil so that it generates minimal friction and thus increasing efficiency.
Date:
November 15, 1892
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment.
Patent for a planter attachment, which allows seeds to be covered with varying depths of soil, that is operated from the seat of the planter.
Date:
October 20, 1908
Creator:
O'Brian, John B.
System:
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Gage.
Patent for a measuring gage for measuring rafters that clamps on the wood, has a saw guide line, and eliminates the use of multiple calculation instruments thus making the process simpler.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Morrison, Andrew
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "for cultivating stubble, sugar-cane, cotton, corn, and other plants planted in rows or drills, which will remove the soil from the sides of the rows without injuring the roots, and will throw soil around the plants, and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use" (lines 15-21).
Date:
May 10, 1881
Creator:
Brenner, August William & Fraser, James
System:
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Cotton Planter
Patent for a cotton planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Guton, Isaac
System:
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Attachment for Planters
Patent for attachment for planters, provides a simple, inexpensive, easily-applied, and effectively operating attachmentc for cotton, corn, or other seed-planting machines in which is included a truck or a carriage whereby a sweep-plow can be connected with the planter truck or carriage for laying out a furrow and covering the seed (Johnson, 1902).
Date:
June 14, 1909
Creator:
Johnson, Major
System:
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Gang-Plow.
Patent for improvements in gang-plows in which the “disks” would contain a flared annulus and, it is formed by the truncation of a conical shell of large base and small altitude. This disk-plow “will penetrate the soil to the desired depth by its own natural draft with the minimum degree of friction and outlay of force.” (Lines 21-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
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Safety-Valve for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a safety valve for pneumatic tires that prevents the tire from exploding from excess pressure.
Date:
October 3, 1911
Creator:
Burkett, Bruce
System:
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Seed-Cotton Cleaner
Patent for a seed cotton cleaner which cleans out foreign matter and defective cotton while the seed cotton is going on a conveyor belt to the cotton gin.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Thompson, Henry
System:
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