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Wind Engine.
Patent for a new and improved wind engine. This design "relates to an improvement in wind-engines, in which a vertical circular frame having a wind-wheel is covered to the half by a hemispherical roof supported by posts" (lines 8-12).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Draw-Gages.
Patent for improving the manner in which leather straps may be cut and avoid slippage.
Date:
June 25, 1878
Creator:
Tays, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar-Fastener.
Patent for providing a durable structure for fasteners to be used on horse collars for effectiveness and quick manipulation. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Wallace, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn - Husking Machine
Patent for improvements to the corn-husking machine with a butt-end cutter for the ears of corn. (lines 9-10)
Date:
July 3, 1900
Creator:
Werner, Anton, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for a new and useful hoe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Willian, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Coupling
Patent for a device that allows two pipes to be connected without the need of creating threads on the end of pipes.
Date:
March 8, 1902
Creator:
Willmann, Joesph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker.
Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill.
Patent for improvements in drills by providing “a frame which may be readily attached to any suitable support and wherein the drill-spindle may be engaged for operation by a common form of chest-brace.” (Lines 9-13) The frame would enable the stock-rest to adjust in proper positions to receive different thicknesses of stock.” (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable sulky-plow that "may be shifted laterally by the driver during the act of plowing whenever such action is deemed advisable, thereby changing the cut whenever occasion may demand" (lines 10-14). The plow can attach to any type of wheeled plow.
Date:
June 20, 1893
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new design for a wrench that is a "simple, efficient, and inexpensive one adapted for operating on nuts, pipes, rods and other objects." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date:
May 8, 1900
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Chopper
Patent for a corn husker and chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph, Sr. & Leek, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Cutter.
Patent for a vegetable cutter which is to be used as a grater.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Wittenborn, Edmund A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History