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Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. This invention consists is a "pneumatic apparatus for conveying cotton when picked from the plant, and comprises a suction-fan and casing therefor, which latter has pipes and through which air is drawn" (lines 15-19). Illustration included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Bennie, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Structure
Patent for a building support structure for bridges, buildings, dams, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 5, 1908
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wright, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Blade
Patent for a cultivator blade. Illustration included.
Date:
November 7, 1905
Creator:
Harlow, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Ledger
Patent for a Bank-Ledger
Date:
February 10, 1903
Creator:
Ford, Earle
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing machine for clothes that can also be adapted to stoves or gas jets as a boiler. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.
Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine
Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to mold concrete and other artificial stone blocks. Illustration included.
Date:
September 18, 1906
Creator:
Latimer, Samuel A. & Krischke, Joseph, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 18, 1900
Creator:
Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost.
Patent for a chicken roost, which has a receptacle for droppings that is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
Kaneaster, Henry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool
Patent for a tool used for wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Dikes, Johnnie C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
January 24, 1905
Creator:
Joyce, John Worth
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Pippin, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine
Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to form blocks out of plastic material into artificial stone, as well as molding concrete blocks. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 20, 1906
Creator:
Latimer, Samuel A.; Dunkin, James J.; Stacey, J. H.; Hall, A. L.; Porter, R. S.; Haynes, S. F. et al.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Tie-Press.
Patent for a cotton tie press, which allows the easy removal of the temporary ties on the cotton bales.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Howlett, Payton Leon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bucket-Jack
Patent for a bucket jack for holding paint buckets while painting on roofs or the sides of buildings which holds the bucket horizontal.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Phinny, Christpher W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
McCarty, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Opener.
Patent for "a simple and durable device by means of which the buckles or securing devices on cotton-bale ties or bands may be readily opened and the band removed from the bale without destroying the buckle or the band, so that they may be again used." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Gaskill, Clinton R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churning Device.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the base having uprights forming guides for the vertically-movable rod, of the rod movable in said guides and adapted to be connected with a rod or dasher, the treadle, a link connecting the treadle with said rod, the shaft having a platform adapted to support the churn-body and provided with a crank, and a pitman connecting said crank with the treadle" (lines 72-80).
Date:
June 1, 1886
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for an improved construction design for churn power that "may be readily employed in connection with any ordinary vessel serving as a churn body, and which will effect a rapid production of butter" (lines 12-15).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Taylor, Marion M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c.
Patent for a compound that is meant to remove grease, oil, paint, and similar things from delicate cloth. It is composed of gasoline, chloroform, sulfuric ether, alcohol, spirits of ammonia, powdered borax, powdered carbonate of soda, and saltpeter in lumps.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Ehman, Benedickt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvester.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable corn harvester that "when drawn over a field of corn of cutting the ears of corn from two rows simultaneously, and of depositing the cut corn in a receiver at the rear of the cutters" (lines 11-15).
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Perkins, James Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design "relates particularly to a vertical single-dasher reciprocating churn, and has for its object to provide a churn-power of the character that shall be simple and durable in construction, one that will give a maximum length of stroke, and one that will always keep the dasher elevated when not in operation" (lines 7-14).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the bedstead having bolts at the corners, the hooks at the centers of the end rails, and the hooks at the centers of the side rails, of the two wires on each side having their ends secured to the bolts, engaging the hooks and passing to the side of the bed and engaging the hooks, the rings strung on and embracing the adjoining wires between the hooks . . . so as to cause the wires to be brought together, and the cord or strap connecting the said rings so as to slide the rings upon the wires" (lines 20-31).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
Warfield, Dunbar Griffith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History