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Sheep-Shears
Patent for sheep shears. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Ascue, Elbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cleaning Flues
Patent for a flue cleaner that operates by blowing steam through the flue, thus removing dirt and debris. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 14, 1910
Creator:
Bartles, Neslon E. & Hawkins, Charles O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism for Steam Engines
Patent for valve gear mechanism for steam engines.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Broadway, Fred V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Ballast.
Patent for "improvements in methods of making ballast adapted for railway and other uses" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Butler, Henry G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Cook, Katherine B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for a machine that provides change in coins automatically.
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Dodson, Clifton T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window Shade and Curtain Hanger.
Patent for an adjustable window shade frame that can be mounted on an existing window to allow curtains or shades to be adjusted from the top or the bottom, and secured at any desired level for privacy and/or ventilation.
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Edens, Myrtle J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protractor
Patent for a new protractor design that is “particularly to a protractor or gage for use by carpenters in cutting the rafters for a building roof” (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for rail joints that will remove the need for bolts to secure the chairs. The joints will also allow the chair to be removed from the rail without using tools.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hobble.
Patent for a new, simple hobble for cultivators made up of fewer parts to reduce cost and for east of use and adjustment. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Ferguson, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Cotton Chopper
Patent for improvement for cotton choppers “so that the operator may regulate the depth of cut, and may shift the cutting member forward or back” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustration included.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Finch, Arthur M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Holding Device.
Patent for a device to hold a wheel during construction and repair.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Gallagher, Harve H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers that are reliable, cost-effective, and move transversely through the rows of cotton "separately producing a vertical adjustment of each earth turning member." (lines 17-19), including illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1915
Creator:
Gant, Jesse B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1917
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Waco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1918
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener
Patent for a new type of Hame Fastener that has adjustable hooks attached to it. These adjustable hooks allow for the use on hames that have the lower ends closer together. There are springs on this hame that allows for the hame to be held in any position when places on the collar.
Date:
November 8, 1913
Creator:
Griffin, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guano Distributor
Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date:
July 19, 1912
Creator:
H. D. Pate
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window-Shade
Patent for an adjustable window-shade that is more useful and can be "raised and lowered in its entirety" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat.
Patent for a thermostat that automatically regulates temperatures and is operated "in conjunction with an electric current or the like" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hinson, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer
Patent for an ice cream freezer that will have independent and removable receptacles that will freeze ice cream into various sizes and shapes in the form of sticks.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Jameson, Roland Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for improvements to the cotton-chopper. This invention outfits the cotton-chopper with a blade that can be moved, either mechanically or with electric power. Previously, the blade was fixed and stationary.
Date:
May 13, 1919
Creator:
Janes, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Tire-Rim.
Patent for a demountable tire-rim for automobiles that tires can be "readily mounted or removed". "The principal object of (this) invention is to provide an automobile wheel rim which is demountable and which is so constructed that when removed from the wheel a segment of the rim can be swung inwardly thereby attaining an easy and quick removal of the tire from the rim, and vice versa.". The object of this invention was to create a rim that was easily detachable and was also sturdy and not as expensive as manufactures.
Date:
January 14, 1919
Creator:
Jones, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Tooth Adjuster.
Patent for a cultivator tooth adjuster that can be set to different angles.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
Kirk, Carrol D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel-Fastening for Cultivators
Patent for new and useful improvements in shovel-fastenings for cultivators. Improvements include incorporating a spring latch in the cultivator foot so that no time is lost and no tools would be needed in replacing cultivator shovels.
Date:
December 18, 1917
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, James M. & Tirey, Grover C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History