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Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for a cotton seed conveyor, which sends cotton seeds out the bottom of cotton gins and into bins.
Date:
October 26, 1909
Creator:
Greeson, David H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car coupler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1899
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Operating Mechanism
Patent for a churn operating mechanism. This invention provides a dasher operating mechanism for easy and convenient cleaning. Illustration included.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Cunningham, Richard A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating Acetylene Gas
Patent for an apparatus for generating Acetylene Gas which feeds water directly into the carbide from a main reservoir.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Hodges, Samuel F. & Lee, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Kitchen Cabinet
Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Ferguson, John F. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CONVERTIBLE CAR.
Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Cothern, John K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader
Patent for a pneumatic cotton thresher, cleaner, and storage unloader for use in cotton gins.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 1, 1910
Creator:
Oldham, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topper.
Patent for a cotton-top trimmer that can be attached to a cultivator.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Griffith, Thomas K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Stanchion.
Patent for improvements in cattle-stanchions in “which the animal can be released from without its stall, so that the attendant will not have to enter such stall or be subjected to any of the inconveniences of dangers arising therefrom.” (Lines 13-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 10, 1903
Creator:
Garrett, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Coupling
Patent for an air brake coupling for use on trains that opens the air valves when the coupling is attached.
Date:
June 20, 1911
Creator:
Winton, Robert A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane-Header.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cane headers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Easley, William Dudley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Yoke Or Poke.
Patent for a new and useful animal yoke or poke, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Worley, Frank Athar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Exhibitor and Phonographic Annunciator
Patent for an advertising exhibitor and phonographic annunciator that shows changing advertisements and has a recording reading them out.
Date:
July 25, 1911
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment designed to aid in the plowing of soil. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Parmer, George W. & Miller, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus.
Patent for a machine for use in making cotton batting which takes the cotton in by an air current and then distributes it evenly throughout the mold for the batting. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool
Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Morriss, Thomas E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body Stretcher
Patent for a body stretcher. This invention is for exercising and stretching muscles. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Seidler, William Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Sack
Patent for a sack for cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Kendall, Ernest L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
Bellah, William Newton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the crossed levers, the bail extending over the same, the spring secured to and extending between said levers, and the latches carried by said levers" (lines 3-6).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Bonner, Whitmill J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Rack.
Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, facilitates the unrolling of the cloth" (lines 21-32).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Palmer, William Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge.
Patent for "improvements in bridges of that class which are used for crossing streams or country roads, and for such other purposes as a bridge may be desired" (lines 15-18), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1887
Creator:
Mitchell, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack.
Patent for a new and improved sack for cotton pickers. This design "is to improve that class of sacks which are used by cotton-pickers and form a receptacle for cotton after it has been culled from the bolls, and in which it is carried to the gin. These sacks as now made are packed with cotton so as to be unwieldy, difficult to manipulate, and unhandy to empty, thus necessitating a great deal of labor and much waste of time" (lines 7-15).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Dye, Charles Headen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History