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Agricultural Implement.
Patent for a device related to plows, with a corn-planter and a cotton-planter attachments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1880
Creator:
Chapman, William Arnol
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.
Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Steinocher, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.
Date:
March 3, 1898
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bin.
Patent for a new and improved bin. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a casing having bearing blocks or shoulders, a tilting bin located in said casing and provided with a sloping top, and an automatic cover placed loosely in the casing above the shoulders and provided on the under side, near its front edge, with a cleat fitting within the upper part of the bin, whereby said cover is adapted to close the upright bin and limit its forward movement when opened" (lines 7-16).
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Hunter, Edward T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buttonhole Cutter or Shears.
Patent for a buttonhole cutter or shears, which has an adjustable stop for creating buttonholes of different sizes.
Date:
March 17, 1908
Creator:
Barr, George T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter Attachment.
Patent for a carbureter attachment.
Date:
March 19, 1918
Creator:
McDonald, James A. & Harris, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Saw Buck and Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved saw-buck and drag-saw. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the saw-buck having cross-piece, the swinging arm pivoted to and laterally movable on said cross-piece, the upper-end of said arm being provided with a slot, the saw, the saw-carriers . . . having spindles, the forward-carrier being provided with a tenon, and the saw-frame pivotally mounted on the spindles of the saw-carriers" (lines 74-82).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Nitsche, John Emil & Kowalewsky, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.
Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Hoxworth, Edwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in copy holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Scarborough, George Moore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. The mechanism is attached to a riding cultivator where plants are cut in advance of the cultivator blades.
Date:
March 5, 1918
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with mechanically operated hoes that go in an ellipse across the ground.
Date:
March 15, 1910
Creator:
Gibson, Rupert R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Banister, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Topper
Patent for a cotton topper. This invention is designed to deal with weeds and is attached to the frame of an ordinary cultivator or plow. Illustrations included
Date:
March 15, 1910
Creator:
Bickers, Lucius T. & Lee, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
End Cap, Tie, and Seal for Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.
Patent for an end cap, tie, and seal for cylindrical cotton-bales. The cap has a flat end with cylindrical edges and a draw wire in its hem. It extends nearly to the ends of the bale, and the edges go over the ends of the bale.
Date:
March 12, 1895
Creator:
Campbell, Louis Wilbur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaporative Cooler.
Patent for an evaporative cooler/refrigerator that is cooled by the evaporation of water with ventilating tubes to maintain the air condition in shelves. Water is adapted to move through a "cloth, flowing downwardly therethrough and being evaporated therefrom to thereby effectually cool the articles disposed within the refrigerator" (lines 28-31). This patent includes illustrations
Date:
March 10, 1914
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Clay Heater.
Patent for a new and improved fire-clay heater. This design "consists in an improved fire-log burner for oil or other fluid or gaseous inflammable substances, said burner being in form of a tube or hollow cylinder, and made of 'fire-clay,' and provided with numerous jet or burner passages in its periphery, and filled with comminuted asbestus or other analogous absorbent or capillary fluid-conducting fire-proof material . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a practically-operating and fire-proof fire-log for heating steam-boilers, stoves, grates, fire-places, and for other analogous uses" (lines 17-30).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
White, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Burner Fire Log.
Patent for a new and improved fluid-burner fire-log. This design consists "in combination, a perforated tubular body, metallic removable heads, a fluid-supplying tube, a perforated air-induction distributing tie-tube provided with screw threads and nuts on its ends outside the heads, and a comminuted or disintegrated fire-proof filling surrounding the perforated portion of the air-tube and occupying the chamber of the body" (lines 25-32).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
White, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang Plow.
Patent for a new and improved gang plow. This design consists in "the landside-beam, the front cross-beam, the oblique plow-carrying beam connected at its rear end to the landside-beam and at its front to the front cross-beam, the tubular bearings or boxings on the side of the landside-beam and at the front of the plow-beam, the wheeled cylindrical rods extending through and freely rotatable in the said bearings or boxings, and means . . . for raising and lowering the frame on the cylindrical rods" (lines 17-28).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Hinchman, Frank M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Geology of Blacklands Experimental Watershed, Near Waco,Texas
Report on the geological aspects of the Blacklands Experimental Watershed near Waco, Texas.
Date:
March 1952
Creator:
Blank, H. Richard (Horace Richard), 1929-; Stoltenberg Norval L. & Emmerich, Harry H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun-Barrel.
Patent for improvement in small firearms. The gun combines a cylindrical breech and with an elliptical bore in order to increase the projectile’s impact and stabilize its trajectory. The invention uses an ordinary ball cartridge, improving upon an earlier patent by the inventor. Detailed explanation and illustrations included.
Date:
March 4, 1902
Creator:
Cole, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun-Stock.
Patent for an improved wooden stock for firearms which combines maximum lightness and strength, may be produced at reduced cost, and is adapted for convenient and advantageous manipulation for defensive purposes.
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Cole, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Collar Rolling Machine
Patent for horse collar rolling machines. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Goodman, Forest Eduard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Holding Device.
Patent for a device to hold ice upon running-boards of vehicles (lines 10-11.) This device is flexible in use (it can be pulled up to reveal the ice, and put back out of the way), simple in design, and cheap to construct.
Date:
March 21, 1922
Creator:
Barton, Warren D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Filling Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combined extensible and multiple machine for making mattresses and the like, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
White, Charles Willis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History