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Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps
Patent for an air valve cage for air brake pumps which reduces the wear on the air brake pump and substantially reduces the maintenance costs of the system.
Date:
February 16, 1909
Creator:
Mattingly, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper designed so that the blade moves "transversely across a standing row of plants" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 23, 1909
Creator:
Ellis, Thomas Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer
Patent for a conveyer system in use with threshing machines. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for a device that prevents animals such as cows from tearing down fences.
Date:
February 12, 1901
Creator:
Specht, W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Butt-Cutter
Patent for a machine designed to cut off the butt ends of cereal sheaves should they become wet or muddy. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 16, 1909
Creator:
Janes, Ivey & Lanaux, Alfred A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Tooth.
Patent for a new design for saw-teeth, with illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Fleming, Christopher C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy.
Patent for a canopy for beds and sofas to keep out insects.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Swanwick, Harry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fish-Hook
Patent for a fish hook designed to catch the fish by its head when it takes the bait. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 9, 1909
Creator:
Timmons, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caurbureter for Explosive-Motors
Patent for a carburetor for explosive motors designed with a measuring chamber for liquid hydro-carbon and a mixing chamber to regulate the amount of liquid hydrocarbon used to enrich the body of incoming air. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 23, 1909
Creator:
Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Multiple Fuse Block
Patent for an automatic multiple fuse block. This invention is "provided a normally inactive shunt circuit through which, when a fuse is blown, the current is diverted to an electro-mechanical means which, when the rush of current causing the fuse to blow" (16-21). Illustration included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Chopper.
Patent for an "attachment to a cultivator to chop or thin corn, cotton, and other drilled plants at the same time it is being plowed and without interfering in the work of the cultivator" (lines 14-18).
Date:
February 26, 1907
Creator:
Graham, Daniel O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1900
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Presss
Patent for a top loading Bailing Press with feed openings and removable sides.
Date:
February 14, 1901
Creator:
Nicholson, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for improvements to the construction of corn and cotton planters that are ridden by the user, illustrated.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Boyd, Joseph Lonzo & Gillis, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Bottoms of Ships.
Patent for apparatus for cleaning the bottom of ships "to provide a simple and practical apparatus for removing barnacles, seaweed, mud, and other adhesions from the sides and bottom of a ship" (line 10).
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Culpepper, Robert Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for cotton-choppers in which it can be converted into cultivators; the height and sweep of the rotary chopper can be adjusted. The depth of penetration of the cultivator-shovels can also be adjusted independently without affecting other part of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1903
Creator:
Talley, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Lamp.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas lamps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Josserand, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for combining both cotton choppers and cultivators. This will create a more easily operated piece of machinery.
Date:
February 4, 1902
Creator:
Bass, James Milton, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Pitts, William Wirt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aparejo
Patent for more efficient and durable pack-saddle (aparejo) used by United States Army. Casing involves hollow boot-sticks and rubber-encased steel, with better fitting to prevent fatigue of animal.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Keller, John & Titsworth, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Thinner.
Patent for improvements in corn-thinners for removing excess stalks in the field by constructing the “upper portion’s blade flat to present straight side cutting edges, and having the lower portion curved transversely to present to a lower semicircular cutting edge.” (Lines 53-56.) With this design, the operator would not have to stoop over, making the thinning operation easier. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 17, 1903
Creator:
Horn, Henry G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Crouch, Jim L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date:
February 28, 1905
Creator:
Gribble, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 4, 1908
Creator:
Gauntt, Granville B. & Floeckinger, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History