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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Clock Attachment.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Schindler, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Struve, Clemens A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper And Cultivator
Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Zoll, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1904
Creator:
Bodungen, Clemens G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling press for baling hay,cotton, and the like; is simple, durable and efficient.
Date:
February 3, 1903
Creator:
Heinrich, Ferdinand, L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto.
Patent for new and useful improvements in composition railroad ties and means for securing rails thereto, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Baca, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Holder
Patent for a book holder to receive or hold a book or in position for writing
Date:
March 12, 1901
Creator:
Hackworth, Riggs P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a car coupling. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 8, 1904
Creator:
Simecek, Vaclav
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie
Patent for "a new and useful bale tie" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
May 14, 1900
Creator:
Walker, Millard Fillmore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper mounted on wheels.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Walker, Millard F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for "coupling devices for connecting the air-brake hose of railway-cars" (lines 9-10) automatically, including illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1906
Creator:
Simecek, Vaclav
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells.
Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Baca, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate or Box Forming Machine
Patent for a crate or box forming machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Nitschmann, Eduard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date:
April 11, 1905
Creator:
Kruse, William & Vanderwerth, Theodor M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any liability of the skid tilting endwise or sidewise.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
Ragan, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "a simple, light, and durable press, which may be conveniently manipulated in either a vertical or horizontal position and readily transported in a field from stack to stack of hay. . .wherein the hay may be expeditiously and effectively baled by two persons" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 11, 1888
Creator:
Freytag, Anton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead-tie. This design "is to obviate the spreading of the side bars of a bed, which allows the bottom slats to fall, especially those near the center of the bed; and [the design] accomplish[es] this object by providing one of the slats, preferably at or near the center, with adjustable keepers" (lines 21-27).
Date:
February 12, 1889
Creator:
Fernau, Magnus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a "press as simple in construction and operation as possible, of sufficient power to do the work effectively, and arranged to be readily moved from place to place at pleasure" (lines 12-16).
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Hillman, William & Ripple, Joseph F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner. This design "is to be used in connection with a machine for removing short lint from cotton-seed . . . The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner, which is simple and durable in construction and very effectively removes all impurities from the shell of the seed. . . . The invention consists of a revolving horizontal disk-brush and of a fixed table provided with emery-slabs and perforated plates and in contact with the brush" (lines 8-21).
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher.
Patent for a new and improved churn-dasher for butter churns. This design calls for two weights on opposite ends of the bottom of the churn-dasher so that the dasher will "revolve with greater force and to balance it more easily upon its pivot" (lines 17-18). This lessens the wear on the bottom of the churn, which increases the longevity of the dasher.
Date:
April 11, 1882
Creator:
Pinter, Francis T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for an improved combined corn and cotton planters that "effectively carr[ies] out the duplex functions of planters of this class, which will possess advantages in point of simplicity, durability, effectiveness, and general efficiency" (lines 11-14).
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Wittich, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "the combination of the two overlapping fulcrumed or pivoted levers having handles and forward ends of flattened crescent shape bent in reverse directions to cause their extreme reduced ends to abut to form nippers, and provided with beveled shoulders at the bases of their inner edges to form cutters and with serrated projections in rear of the pivot or fulcrum, and an angular arm movably attached to said pivot or fulcrum, carrying a receptacle adapted to be adjusted under the nippers for the reception of staples" (lines 29-42).
Date:
July 16, 1889
Creator:
Carter, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "of the base-plate, the casing made in two trough-shaped sections . . . one of which is hinged to the base-plate the bifurcated uprights, the operating-levers on each side hinged to the uprights, the compressing-beam extending across the baling-chamber and through the uprights, and connections between the compressing-beam and the levers" (lines 92-100).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Hillman, William & Ripple, Joseph F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Motor.
Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Koniakowsky, Alois M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History