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Boll Breaker and Cleaner.
Patent for a device that attaches to a cotton gin that cleans and crushes the cotton bolls.
Date:
February 19, 1918
Creator:
Streun, John Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for improved, cheap, and simple stalk-cutting technology with shielded protection, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 17, 1918
Creator:
McCray, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has relation to that class of car-couplings in which the open ends of a coupling bar or link are engaged by hooks in the draw-heads; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a coupling, in which the hooks are projecting from the under sides of arms pivoted upon the draw-heads and dropping down by their gravity, and in which the said hooks project into registering recesses in the upper side of the draw-head" (lines 23-33).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Boyers, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire - Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher to "attached to the wires direct or have bearing against the post, as stated, but wherein when the device is placed in engagement with the post it need not be secured thereto" (line 22 - 26).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
McNeill, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a wire stretcher with means to easily adjust a slidable rack bar, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Harper, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Cloth Supporting and Measuring Apparatus.
Patent for a support and measuring device for wire-cloth in stores. It features areas to store rolls of cloth and allows cloth to be measured and cut, and rolled from one roll without removing the other rolls stored on the device.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
March, William Wells
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design "has for its object to provide a novel, simple, economical, and efficient implement or tool for tightening wire fences by forming twists or loops in the fence-strands to take up the slack, and to provide a novel implement of this type wherein a rod or bar can be conveniently applied to increase the leverage in turning the implement to form the twists or loops" (lines 8-16).
Date:
July 15, 1890
Creator:
Bellah, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Tightener.
Patent for a wire stretcher and tightener meant for wire fence rails. It is easy and convenient to use, and consists of a lever with a fixed pulley on one end, a rope or chain passes through the pulley, and the rope or chain has hooks attached to its ends.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Farmer, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Twister and Tightener.
Patent for a wire twister and tightener for wire fences. With this invention, "the fence-wire is caused to be contracted, twisted, and made taut" (lines 17-18). It is a set of toothed ratchet wheels that have v-shaped slots for the wire. Pawls act on the teeth, and springs and levers move the pawls.
Date:
March 17, 1896
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
July 12, 1904
Creator:
Cooper, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
Wilson, Lucindia Jane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Landside Cutter for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved landside cutter for plows. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a colter . . . and the landside attachment secured to the landside of the plow, the said landside attachment having the laterally-extending cutting-wing . . . the plate in front of the landside attachment, and the colter on the front edge of the said plate" (lines 66-75).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Reed, Benjamin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved windmill, a wind-driven wheel which will operate with the wind blowing in any direction and without the necessity of a typical vane and which produces a maximum velocity with a minimum amount of wind.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Bartlett, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel
Patent for a wheel. Illustration included.
Date:
August 30, 1904
Creator:
White, James Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire stretcher which includes attachments for pulling the ends of a broken strand of wire together so that it can be repaired, in addition to the usual function of stretching wire thereby taking up slack in unbroken wire strands when erecting fences. The device also "requires a minimum amount of labor in its operation and in which the force employed is exerted in the direction of the line of the wire" (lines 20-23).
Date:
September 14, 1920
Creator:
Stephens, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Driving Horses.
Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Williams, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening and Gumming Saws.
Patent for a machine that sharpens and gums saws for cotton-gins. It does so quickly and does not fatigue the operator. It automatically feeds "the saws so as to bring the teeth successively into position to be operated upon, and which will cut the teeth uniformly, thereby preserving the circular outline of the saws and preserving the teeth of a uniform length and appearance" (lines 15-20).
Date:
July 14, 1896
Creator:
Hulme, William A. & Hulme, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor and Steam Burner
Patent for a vapor and steam burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in insecticides, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Carmichaelm, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Mower
Patent for a lawn mower designed to trim grass close to fences or trees. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 10, 1908
Creator:
Merritt, William Neil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket Windlass.
Patent for a new and improved windlass mounting. This design "consists of an improved construction of and contrivance for mounting the windlass for a well-bucket; also, an improved contrivance for mounting the pulley of the windlass, whereby it is designed to provide simpler, cheaper, and easier working well-bucket windlasses than as heretofore constructed" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 20, 1884
Creator:
Palmer, William Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Iron Saddle-Tree Forks
Patent for an improvement in iron saddle-tree forks that are cheaper to construct as well as light and durable. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
August 26, 1879
Creator:
Wood, John McLane & Bellah, William Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Rim.
Patent for improvement to wheel rims providing "means for introducing oil thereinto and distributing it throughout the whole periphery" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Harville, Walter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Closet Attachment.
Patent for an attachment for water closets in outhouses without running water that blocks odors from escaping the pit by closing off the pit when not in use and automatically opens by a pressure bar behind the seat when the water closet is in use.
Date:
June 4, 1907
Creator:
Bradford, McDuffee
System:
The Portal to Texas History