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Aerial Torpedo.
Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship-Destroyer.
Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aquarium.
Patent for an ornamental suspension aquarium with easily removed plug or stopper for refreshing the water with illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Riding-Cultivators and Other Agricultural Implements
Patent for an attachment for riding cultivators and other agricultural implements which has an adjustable point that allows the same depth of furrow to be made across undulating ground.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Simpson, Charles Neil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Ball, William Rossem
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top.
Patent for an adjustable carriage top for protection from the weather. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date:
November 2, 1886
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Roaster.
Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
November 23, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
combination lock
Patent for a combination lock. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdinand S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a tool that is comprised of a hammer, wrench, staple puller, wire cutter, and a claw. Includes illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Burkhalter, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool
Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date:
October 18, 1904
Creator:
Millican, Wilber Ashby
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design is "to simplify the means employed for providing at will recesses of different depths in the wheel, and also to provide means whereby a recess of both greater width and depth can be provided for cotton-seed than for corn, whereby the cotton-seed can be fed from the hopper in a more certain, free, and efficient manner than heretofore" (lines 23-31).
Date:
March 20, 1883
Creator:
Holland, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy.
Patent for a new and improved faucet with a toy attachment. This design "relates to faucets for soda-fountains and the like; and it consists in providing the same with a jointed figure or automaton adapted to be operated by the escaping fluid" (lines 21-25).
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper.
Patent for a novel bottle stopper. This design "consists in certain improvements in [bottle stoppers] whereby the outpouring fluid may be utilized to set in motion an automaton attached to said stopper" (lines 18-21).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder
Patent for a copy holder.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Hoyle, Samuel Cook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Howard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Holland, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "has for its object to so attach the front and rollers to the device that the rollers may be cleaned and freed from trash, burrs, and seed, when necessary, without stopping the gin" (lines 14-18).
Date:
April 11, 1882
Creator:
Boatwright, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Pest-Destroying Machine
Patent for a machine that destroys boll weevils and other agricultural pests. It distributes moisture and poisonous powder that adheres to plants.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Pest-Poisoner
Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the frame, the wheels, the axle provided with the fingers, and the spout attached to the under side of the frame, of the hopper having a slot in its bottom decreasing in width from its forward to its rear end, plates, adjustably secured to the bottom of the hopper, the vertical shaft journaled in the hopper, and the horizontal arms on the said shaft" (lines 92-100).
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Lowry, Talman Porter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process
Patent for cotton treating apparatus and process, cleaning the cotton as it is removed from bolls and then formed in to bales.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Dunlap, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide an improved cultivator which can be very quickly and easily adjusted to adapt the device for marking out or laying off the roads or hills; to provide improved means whereby the shovels or blades are caused to always occupy the same relative position to each other, and adjust themselves when the beams of the harrow or cultivator are adjusted, and finally, to provide improved means for adjusting the shovels at any desired angle, so that they can enter or penetrate the soil to different depths" (lines 14-25).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Sutton, James Macaulay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "ha[s] for its object the provision of strong and reliable means whereby any desired number of plow-shovels may be used and the distance between the said plows regulated or adjusted at will by very simple means. A further object is to provide means to enable all the plows, excepting two, to be removed, to adapt the device to be used to lay off rows at a predetermined distance apart to prepare for sowing" (lines 9-19).
Date:
August 16, 1887
Creator:
Sutton, James Macaulay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree Attachment
Patent for a doubletree attachments. Illustration included.
Date:
August 16, 1910
Creator:
Ball, William Rossem
System:
The Portal to Texas History