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Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Barnett, James Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Burran, William Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traffic Signal System
Patent for a Traffic Signal System for universal traffic management, i.e. automobiles, pedestrians, railway, street car, etc. The system has a warning signal to indicate danger and designate a safety zone. This system provides an audible as well as visual signal.
Date:
July 21, 1921
Creator:
Wetter, R. E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Necktie-Holder
Patent for improvements to necktie-holders, particularly to prevent the neck-tie from sliding down toward the lower portion of the collar.
Date:
April 21, 1921
Creator:
Potter, Arthur C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle.
Patent for improvements to vehicle structure. This includes adjustments to the wheel base for better steering movements and vehicle capacity.
Date:
November 21, 1922
Creator:
Furlong, Martin J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Flushing-Tanks.
Patent for a flushing tank valve that reduces the time it takes to fill the tank with a higher accuracy for shut off levels.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Sweeny, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator, and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for an improvement to the Combined Corn and Cotton Planter, Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper with detailed illustrations.
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
Carley, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for improvements in churns is to “simplify and improve the construction of the means for operating vertically-reciprocating churn-dashers and to enable the dasher to be adjusted vertically, according to the amount of lacteal fluid to be churned.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Box Clip.
Patent for an inexpensive improvement to cigar box clips or clamps, that will make it easier for the box to be left open at a tilted angle, for the purpose of displaying the cigars or other objects inside.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Holder, Andrew Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power
Patent for an improvement to a churning by allowing a churn to be attached to a sewing machine. The churn and sewing machine could then be used separately or at the same time.
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
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Churning Device.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n a churning device, the combination, with a base and a spring-bar held therein, of a cross-bar hinged to the said base and a churn-carrying bar secured to the said hinged and spring-bars" (lines 69-73).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Wood, Sylvanus B.; Wood, Hervey & Wiley, Thomas Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Gun
Patent for an air gun. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Heckman, George E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Confection.
Patent for confections with an edible packaging. These confections come in the form of a spherically shaped casing, simulating a baseball, which have been secured together and contain an edible filling.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Cressey, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper Clip.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a paper clip. This invention relates to a paper clip a has for its principal object the production of a simple and efficient device for holding numbers sheets of paper together.
Date:
October 21, 1920
Creator:
Holt, Frank P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothespin
Patent for an improved version of the clothespin, which is simple to use, durable, and cheap to manufacture.
Date:
March 21, 1922
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar-Button.
Patent for collar-buttons made of inexpensive, non-metallic material that when applied to bands of unusual commercial form, can adapt itself to the curvature of the band without obstructing the free adjustment of a tie in connection with the folded type of collar.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Baldwin, Lawrence G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener or Clasp.
Patent for a collar fastener that will grip the flaps of a collar and maintain the curvature of the collar in a neat manner.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Kelly, Orson N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener or Clasp.
Patent for a collar fastener that grips the opposite edges of a soft fabric collar in a neat and presentable manner.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Kelly, Orson N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a novel combination tool used to construct and maintain wire fencing, including design modifications that encompass the ability to stretch and tie wires without the need for an additional tool, including illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Matsler, Columbus U.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attaching-Ring.
Patent for an attaching ring to connect a boiler to a water heater jacket that is described in pending application Serial No. 304,041.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Fowles, Alfred T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring and Threading Tool.
Patent for an inexpensive, efficient boring and threading tool that "will enable a smooth and even surface to be produced with a minimum of skill on the part of the operator" (lines 18-21).
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Wells, Daniel Doolittle
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Motive-Power Machines
Patent for an attachment for motors "designed to prevent the loss of leverage and power which ordinarily obtains in such motors and in all machinery where the power is taken from cranks, and also to overcome what is known as the dead-center, and thus to greatly increase the power of the machine to which the attachment is applied" (lines 12-18).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Weaver, John L. & Brenke, Henry, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge Construction.
Patent for '' bridge improvements, especially for placement over gutters, ditches, and alike ''
Date:
May 14, 1920
Creator:
McKenzie, Philip A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History