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Flower-Pot.
Patent for a new flower pot with metal siding and a removable bottom, including illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Simpson, McDuff
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter.
Patent for a feed cutter that has a casing that makes up tilted side walls with transverse openings, a reciprocating knife that sits between the casing walls, a link that connects the knife to the casing, a feed trough, and a staple that engages the trough.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Butler, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Bin.
Patent for a flour-bin that keeps the flour and meal separated and sifts them separately. This patent has "a novel formation of a stirrer to prevent the banking of the flour or meal in the bin, and which can be cheaply manufactured and when in use will offer a minimum amount of resistance to the contents of the bin agitated thereby" (lines 16-21). The bin is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Patton, James Monre
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for "a quilting-frame with equalizing bar and means for adjusting the same so that the quilting-frame shall at all times be held in a level position" (lines 8-11). This invention has a new method for suspending the quilting-frame and for supporting the rail where the traveler operates.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Chenoweth, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Bending Machine.
Patent for a machine used to bend or shape metal pipes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Rutledge, Caleb C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins
Patent for mote boards for cotton gins that throw off bolls, leaf, trash, dust, along with other foreign material
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Wooldridge, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Freezing Connection for Tanks
Patent for a valve for water tanks that prevents the water from freezing by taking in water from the central portion. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Miller, Charles Hector & Bunnell, Walter Alex
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for an invention that improves mote boards for cotton gins by causing the "impurities and dust thrown off by the centrifugal action of the brush to be conducted away by a dust passage" (lines 19-22).
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Wooldridge, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe System for Discharging Waste Water from Refrigerator-Cars.
Patent for a pressurized pipe system designed to discharge waste water from melted ice used to reduce car temperature including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Applewhite, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planting Attachment.
Patent for an attachment to a seed planter for the purpose of planting peanuts. The device allows for efficient and inexpensive peanut planting by simply connecting to existing equipment.
Date:
June 11, 1918
Creator:
Wright, Melvin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planter
Patent for an improved peanut planting machine with illustrations.
Date:
February 17, 1920
Creator:
Harnsberger, Joseph Adam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photograph Gallery Appliance
Patent for a photograph gallery appliance. This invention is to replace special card mounts. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1904
Creator:
Bunnell, Walter A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the suspended rolling gate [and] the toggle-jointed levers . . . connecting the gate with a fixed point" (lines 102-104). It further consists in a lever "pivoted at one end to a fixed point, the lever pivoted to [another] lever near the outer end of the latter, the lower end of the lever being attached to the free end of the lever, the pivoted hand-levers fulcrumed on opposite sides of the gate, and the rod connecting the inner ends of the said hand levers with the connected ends of the [other] levers" (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, John Coleman & Rainey, Willain Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drop-Feed for Seeders and Planters.
Patent for a drop feed device that dispenses individual seeds (particularly peas) for planting. It attaches to a planter, dropping seeds when activated by the motion of the planter's wheels. A seed guard prevents clogging.
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Mat P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag-Saw.
Patent for a simple and efficient drag-saw that can be easily transported and adjusted. The saw can also be lifted during operation if necessary. It has a frame, a longitudinally-grooved guiding-bracket attached to the frame, a reciprocating pitman-head that slides into the frame, a crank-shaft that operates the pitman-head, an arm that carries the saw with a pivotal connection to the pitman-head, a saw-frame secured to the pitman-head's outer end, an adjustable strap between the saw-carrying arm and the saw-frame for adjusting the saw-frame, a spring between the arm and the pitman-head, a saw-lifting lever fulcrumed on the machine-frame, a pendent stirrup carried by the lifting-lever and slotted to control the saw-carrying arm, and a guiding-bracket with a slot where the stirrup slides and another slot where the arm moves.
Date:
March 3, 1896
Creator:
Reeves, Newell Antony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1891
Creator:
Williams, William Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Pole
Patent for a curtain pole. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Doyle, Edward S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improvements in cultivators and includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 24, 1883
Creator:
Wise, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator for carrying plows. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
Stovall, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a press for baling cotton and other fibrous materials.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Machine
Patent for a baling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Bryan, William Silous
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design consists of an "endless wire-gauze band or apron, bound at its sides with strips of flexible material, such as leather . . . and provided on its inner side with slats, in combination with the saw-shaft, the condenser-roller, and the upper roller, around which the band passes, provided with longitudinal channels . . . in [a] cylinder and [a] wiper" (lines 81-92).
Date:
June 14, 1881
Creator:
Edgar, Valentine K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Loader.
Patent for “improvements in apparatus for loading cotton bales (either gin or compress) onto box cars, especially with a view of utilizing the head room or space usually left unoccupied between the roof of the car and the bales stacked on the floor in the prevailing practice of loading cars” (lines 36-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Newell, Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History