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Cotton-Blocking Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for an attachment for cultivators for arranging blocks of cotton onto a stand. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Horner, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device.
Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Blocking Attachment.
Patent for a cotton blocking attachment for cultivators.
Date:
December 13, 1910
Creator:
Horner, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate.
Patent for an automatic gate that can be unlatched and opened by a vehicle approaching; and then, closed and latched again after passage of the vehicle. The automatic gate is reliable, not easily deranged, and simple in construction.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Laas, Louis August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 13, 1909
Creator:
Freeze, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a new churn with a simplified and improved construction, includes illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
New, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press which uses less power to press hay the same tightness as current baling presses.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Ernest D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date:
June 12, 1888
Creator:
Beach, Philemon Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Sack.
Patent for improvements in a cotton-picker's sack, allowing for easy access to deposit and empty picked cotton while remaining nearly closed to hold and protect the cotton.
Date:
October 16, 1888
Creator:
Cliett, Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for the connection between two railway cars.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Smith, Jacob C.; Golfin, John H.; Hardeman, Eammanuel J.; McNeal, Thomas. & Love, W.G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n an ant-trap, the combination, with a trough formed with a top [that is] flanged . . . of a box connected thereto by a tube terminating in a disk . . . [and] of the connecting-tubes, box, and fence" (lines 62-68).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Thompson, William Henderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with a draw-bar, a sliding box, a movable eccentric secured therein, a coupling-rod, and a pivoted locking-jaw, of a locking-plate secured to said box and adapted to lock the jaw against movement" (lines 84-89).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Zedler, Fridrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fruit, Foliage, and Flowers.
Patent for a new and improved method of making artificial fruit. This design "consists in cutting out a piece of lace or netting of the desired shape, forming the lace or netting into a bag, stuffing the bag with cotton or wool . . . picking the cotton or wool up through the meshes of the lace or netting, cutting narrow strips of tissue-paper, and applying them in layers until a covering similar to pasteboard is formed, drying the article, painting the article, sinking the article in a bath of wax heated to a point beneath boiling . . . letting it drain off, and finally applying a paint finish" (lines 34-47).
Date:
May 24, 1887
Creator:
Eve, Emma H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom or Mop Holder.
Patent for a wire folded so that it firmly clamps "broom-corn, corn-shucks, mops, and feathers, or other material for brushes" (lines 10-11).
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
McIlhany, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tile.
Patent for a new and improved bale-tie. This design "consists, principally, of a bale-tie jaw stamped from sheet metal and formed with an open hook at one end standing in front of a curved edge, with an opening at the other for attachment to the bale-hoop, said opening being shaped to permit the jaw to have a pivotal side motion upon the hoop. The invention also consists of the combination of two of such jaws applied to the bale-hoop to form a complete tie" (lines 7-16).
Date:
January 11, 1887
Creator:
Rylander, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar.
Patent for "improvements in turned down collars, the object of the invention being to effect an improvement in the construction of a turned down collar so that the collar is prevented from getting over the vest, and to also improve the fit of a vest and coat in the back." (lines 8-14)
Date:
March 5, 1918
Creator:
Rogers, Richard T. & Rogers, R. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire fences. This invention is to "make a cheap and efficient post to which fence-wires may be quickly and durable stapled" (line 15-17).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trundler For Spooled Wire.
Patent for a trundler for spooled wire that is strong, light, and shapely enough to propel or draw spooled fence-wire, telegraph-wire, or similar material that is coiled upon flanged spools, and distribute the same lines for the manufacture of fences or erection of electric conductors.
Date:
April 13, 1891
Creator:
Smith, Cullen R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index.
Patent for "an improved method of indexing books of reference, and more especially city and county records, and the means for carrying over from one line to another where several indexes are to be set opposite one name" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Heppenstall, James Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knife.
Patent for a knife with multiple curved blades used to cut food.
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Oertli, Henri
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Developing Photographic Plates
Patent for a machine for developing photographic plates. Illustration included.
Date:
March 12, 1907
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for "ironing-tables which are arranged to be capable of folding when not in use and of extending when used." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Mills, Charles Richmond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Gathering Machine
Patent for insect gathering machine. Illustration included.
Date:
June 27, 1905
Creator:
Fogle, James Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History