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Band-Cutter and Feeder
Patent for a band cutter and feeder which cuts the bands that tie bundles of grain and feeds the grain into a threshing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 15, 1908
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. This cattle guard is a useful improvement in use on railway-tracks.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Frownfelter, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool
Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Baggett, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center and Other Tables.
Patent for a new and improved table. This design consists "[i]n a table, stool, or other like article of furniture, the combination, with a slotted standard and rods extending across the slots, of the legs having dowel-pins entering holes in the under side of the table-top, and cam-shaped hooks connected to the legs and engaging with the slots and rods of the standard" (lines 73-79).
Date:
September 15, 1885
Creator:
Burroughs, William Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an automatic churn, which is an improvement to a previous churn, no. 39,532. It has a two-part cabinet, the top part equipped with a hinged top, a crank shaft, ratchet-wheel, spring pawl, and a tubular square pocket at the end of the crank-shaft. The square pocket is where one can attach a handle to operate the churn. The lower half of the cabinet opens on the side and contains the container, dasher-rod, and churn-dashers.
Date:
September 15, 1896
Creator:
Roberts, John A. & Vermillion, William E. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chair for Sewing Machines and the Like.
Patent for a folding chair for a sewing machine or a similar machine, which can fit into a space between the supporting legs. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Hagner, Frederick Hayes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner.
Patent for a boll breaker and cleaner with a casing with a pair of revolving cylinders with boll-breaking arms adapted to work with additional boll-breaking arms projected from rocking shafts in the lower portion of the casing. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Hale, John W. & Galey, John I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Device.
Patent for an alarm device "to be used in connection with a boiler and operatively connected with the steam whistle, whereby when the water falls below a certain level in the boiler the mechanism will automatically operate to blow the whistle" (lines 11-16). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Priester, Joel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Device.
Patent for "lifting devices, and particularly to the mechanism adapted for use as a stump-puller and for elevating heavy weights, the object in view being to provide a simple and efficient construction and arrangement of parts whereby sufficient power for elevating heavy weights may be communicated to a rotary shaft or drum, and whereby the means communicating motion to the drum may be moved out of operative position and a brake simultaneously applied in order to relieve the operating-lever from strain when the mechanism is at rest." (Lines 8-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1896
Creator:
Jensen, Ole T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Voting-Machine
Patent for a voting machine whereby voters register their votes by pushing a button. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 15, 1908
Creator:
McClain, Eli
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer designed to kill agricultural pests with fumes. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 15, 1908
Creator:
Murff, Jerry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Separator
Patent for a vegetable separator used to assort and clean fruits and vegetables. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 15, 1908
Creator:
Sherrard, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Violin Bow
Patent for an addition to tip of the violin bow, including illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Roark, B. Mortimer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Joining and Fitting Hoof-Hooks.
Patent for "a new and improved Hoof-Hook or cleaner, for cleaning the hoofs of horses and mules" (line 3) including instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 15, 1868
Creator:
Stanley, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Square.
Patent for a square meant "to provide a simple and cheap steel square embodying also a level, an inclinometer, and mitrometer" (lines 13-15).
Date:
September 15, 1896
Creator:
Johns, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper and Cotton-Thinner.
Patent for improvements in stalk-cutters and cotton-thinners by making the cutting-blades and scraper-blades interchangeable, “so as to use the apparatus either as a stalk-chopper or a cotton-thinner; or may be changed to a dropper as may be desired.” (Lines 19-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 15, 1891
Creator:
Mauldin, Columbus Scott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speculum.
Patent for an improved speculum, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
P'Pool, Frank E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Gas.
Patent for a continuous process of producing a gas rich in carbon monoxide, in which the gas-forming combustible material enters the gas-generating chamber from one end while producer gas exits the other end. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Hirt, Jules H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for Refining and Purifying Oils.
Patent for "processes for purifying oils, especially petroleum, and has for its object the removal of impurities and the neutralization of acids, and the reduction of the cost of refining oil by simplifying the process and reducing the length of time usually required for completing the purification" (lines 9-16).
Date:
September 15, 1910
Creator:
Lasher, David F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal Packing-Case for Food Products.
Patent for "a new and useful packing-case for food products" (lines 13-14), particularly for cured meats. It protects "against flies, souring, shrinking, &c., than the ordinary forms of packing" (lines 20-21). It is made from metal, stamped into a packing-case.
Date:
September 15, 1896
Creator:
Blanke, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Pump, &c.
Patent for improvement to a pump "adapted for attachment to small vessels containing oil, water or any other liquid" (lines 10-12) that includes a better means of securing the pump.
Date:
September 15, 1885
Creator:
Phillips, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tag Holding Device.
Patent for a device for attaching price tickets or tags to fabric or other goods, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Towler, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tanning Compound.
Patent for a new compound used for tanning hides and skins of all kinds. It lists the ingredients and their proportions. “The principal advantage of the compound is that its action on the hides is speedy” (lines 27-28).
Date:
September 15, 1882
Creator:
Hayden, Charles Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Till-Alarm.
Patent for improvements in Tills or cash-drawers by using “a combination-lock to prevent its being opened by unauthorized parties, and which will give an alarm with manipulated by any one unacquainted with the secret of its management.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included. Corrections in Letters are also included.
Date:
September 15, 1891
Creator:
Garrett, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History