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Automatic Weighing Machine
Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Scraper and Cleaner
Patent for a boiler scraper and cleaner. This invention is designed to remove incrustation and sediment that collects on the bottom of boilers. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Miller, Hugh C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bung-Extractor
Patent for "an improved extractor for the bungs of casks and barrels of all kinds, so that the same can be quickly and conveniently removed from the bung-hole" (lines 8-11).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Cathriner, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Condenser
Patent for a cotton condenser. This invention applies multiple cylinders for seperating bats. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Syringe Nozzle-Tip.
Design patent for a syringe nozzle-tip. Leading feature of design resides in a tip-body having at one end a spheroidal head and a cylindrical stemp extended from one side of the head and provided with a plurality of spaced longitudinal grooves.
Date:
January 10, 1899
Creator:
Day, Elisha L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Caster.
Patent for a new and useful ball caster, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Carraway, Esther P. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Weighing Scale
Patent for continuous weighing scale. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk.
Patent for a new and useful desk "with depressible leaves or writing bed sections" (line 10)
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Welch, James N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for ant traps that has a body portion with upper and lower inlet chambers. The trap is connected with the upper inlet chamber by a passage-way through which the ants may pass.
Date:
December 19, 1911
Creator:
Seifert, Adolf R. R. & Campbell, Bertha
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Packing-Jar.
Patent for a cylindrical stone packing jar with an ornamental annular rim-flange and an ornament rectangular molding surrounding a smooth-surfaced field or panel.
Date:
May 10, 1898
Creator:
Felscher, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber And Mop.
Patent for the combination of a scrubber, a mop, and a water receptacle to supply the cleansing liquid to the surface that is being cleaned and it provides a mechanism for wringing the mop.
Date:
January 23, 1912
Creator:
Lee, Bryant
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a straddle-row cultivator that has bracing of the parts, adjustable shovels and standards, and allows for varying depths of digging.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Lindsay, Horace
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for cotton press for bailing cotton employed in forming cylindrical bales from bat or sheet of cotton received from the condenser. (lines 10-13)
Date:
January 27, 1903
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trunk And Dressing-Case.
Patent for a new and useful combined trunk and dressing case. This design is to "provide a simple and efficient device of the character specified having a large amount of space for receiving different articles of wearing-apparel and for inclosing various kinds of toilet appliances" (line 9 - 14).
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Carraway, Esther P. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Treating Seeds.
Patent for a new and useful composition of matter to be used for killing weevils in corn, beans, or peas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Thiele, Gustav
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupling that is designed to be operated from either side of the car. The danger of an operator passing between cars to couple or uncouple the cars is avoided in this invention, and the coupling can be adapted to couple cars that have draw-bars to unequal height. The coupling can be manually operated if wished.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplers of the link-and-pin type which couple automatically and are provided with unlocking-levers operated from the top and side of a car, and designed to avoid the necessity of passing between the cars to couple or uncouple the same." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine
Patent for improvements to the machine originally patented on August 10, 186 by Edward A. Franklin of Brenham, patent no. 347,268.
Date:
January 15, 1889
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists "[i]n combination with the hopper of a corn or cotton planter, a vibrating sector provided with two median pins . . . and a seed-slide having the vertical stud projecting up between said pins, whereby the seed-slide will be intermittently and alternately struck by the two pins and reciprocated in opposite directions" (lines 58-65).
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Stone, Josephus; Watson, Thomas & Watson, Branch Archer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beverage Shaking and Mixing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved beverage shaker and mixer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame provided with arms at right angles thereto and the main drive-wheel journaled therein, gear-wheels journaled at the ends of the arms, provided with wrist-pins and meshing with the drive-wheel, a shaker-bar connected to the wrist-pins of the gear-wheels and having a loop or opening for the insertion of the shaft of the drive-wheel, and the cups or tumbler-holders attached rigidly to the shaker-bar" (lines 27-36).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "of a draw-head, a depending hook pivotally mounted therein, a transverse pin arranged on the bottom of the mouth of the draw-head and provided intermediate its ends with a notch to permit the passage of the lower end of the hook, a spring for holding the notch away from the hook, and means for sliding the pin to bring the notch opposite the hook" (lines 83-91).
Date:
August 16, 1892
Creator:
Davis, William Haywood
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.
Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric motor.
Patent for improved electric motor used in motor vehicles "which may be associated directly with the driving-wheel of a motor-vehicle" (lines 40-41), bypassing the need for other power-transmitting mechanisms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Perret, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "has relation to that class of cotton and corn planters in which are hoppers smaller at their top than at their bottom and hoppers larger at their top than at their bottom, to adapt them for planting cotton-seed and corn, respectively. It is the object of the invention to provide the planter with interchangeable hoppers of the above construction, whereby either can be used upon the same machine, as found desirable, the hopper-seat being especially adapted to receive and hold thereon either one of the hoppers" (lines 12-24).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Mallison, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History