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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which can be more easily turned without damaging the cotton plants.
Date:
March 1, 1910
Creator:
Snow, Orto S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Machine
Patent for a coin controlled machine. This invention is designed to accept coins of proper values and operation is dependent on predetermined portion of the im pressed surface of the coin. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene S. & Rast, Felix Q.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Measuring Machine
Patent for an automatic measuring machine. Illustration included.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Whitten, Edgar, Jr. & Harrell, Attie Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Engines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic stopping mechanism for engines.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Hunter, Victor Emmet
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Stanton, James Robertson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. This cattle guard is a useful improvement in use on railway-tracks.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Frownfelter, George C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.
Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Butler, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine
Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Symons, Wilson E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Clipper
Patent for improvements to bolt cutters, in terms of construction and efficiency. The improvement includes "oppositely-disposed jaw members, having v-shaped cutting edges" (lines 36-37). Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Pulvitt, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Brush and Currycomb
Patent for a combined brush and currycomb for cleaning horses. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Sikes, Rufus N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bearing.
Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Godsey, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Coffins
Patent for a coffin attachment which supports the head and shoulders of the body and allows them to be adjusted vertically. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Deering, Uriah H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for improvements to cotton pickers providing a wheeled machine that will "remove cotton lint from the plants by mechanical means" (lines 15-16) with added new features to construction and operation, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 12, 1912
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene Stiles & Ascue, Elbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap
Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Mercer, John W.; Hasha, W. C. & Estes, W. N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casting Dental Plates.
Patent for casting dental plates which builds upon a previous patent by the same inventor, Patent No. 633,222, accepted on September 19, 1899. This patent professes to eliminate previous issues with casting metal such as pinholes and air bubbles that create imperfections in the dental plates.
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Streetman, Willard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cook-Stove.
Patent for a cook-stove, which has two ovens that can be used together or separately.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Turbeville, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator
Patent for a Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator that is used to cultivate cotton, corn and nature like plants.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Evans,Lucius Sandiford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that can be easily operated and does not let flies or dust collect around its top. It is operated by turning a handle which is connected via a rope and a series of pulleys to the churn.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Nanny, Amos William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a removable churn-body, of the frame, with a friction-wheel mounted thereon, a dasher-spindle provided with friction-wheel, movable notched bar, and spring-rod" (lines 79-83).
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Conner, Laurence H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide means for setting and supporting the pin and link of the ordinary car-coupler, so that cars will be automatically coupled when brought together; and it consists in a frame or holder for the coupling-pin and a frame or holder for the coupling-link" (lines 11-17).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Godsey, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Emptying Barrels Or Other Receptacles Containing Liquids.
Patent for a device to empty barrels and other receptacles containing liquids, including illustrations.
Date:
March 3, 1885
Creator:
Hudson, Benjamin Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor.
Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design "consists in certain improvements in the construction of [churn motors], having for their object to produce a machine which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
O'Bannon, William H. & Snider, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a chopper and cultivator, of the A-shaped frame carrying the plows, chopper, and the A-shaped truck-frame, said frame being mounted on the truck-frame by the cranks and provided with means for raising and lowering it" (lines 7-12).
Date:
October 23, 1883
Creator:
Daniel, Ellison Armistead
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved combination wrench. This design "is to provide a wrench whose moveable jaw is adjustable without a screw, and with whose handle are combined several useful tools or instruments" (lines 8-11).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Butler, Edward Martin & Campbell, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History