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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane that uses centrifugal blowers to ensure a safe and practicable flight. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Judson, Fred I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Device for Lard-Compounding Machines
Patent for a machine that spreads melted lard into thin sheets and freezes it. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Wright, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Filling-Machine
Patent for a filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn and Freezer
Patent for a churn that may also be used as an ice cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Lambie, Robert Common
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Alverson, Lewis & Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crank-Pin-Box Connection.
Patent for "improvements in the connections of single-acting pistons of compressor-engines and other engines of like character with one common crank-pin of the main shaft where two or more cylinders and pistons are employed." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Meat and Oil Presses
Patent for box for meat and oil presses. This box prevents meat from adhering to the box by using a lining, preferably sheet metal (p. 2). This keeps the box from breaking.
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Culberston, John J., of Paris, Texas; O'Connell, John C., of Montgomery, Alabama & Gaston, Bernard, of Paris, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Clothes Clamp.
Patent for a new and improved clamp. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable clasp for holding the bed-clothes and its link, of the means for adjustably securing it to the bed-rail, consisting of a rod, having its lower end screw-threaded and provided with a nut and washer, and having on its upper end a hook-shaped projection that is adapted to pass over and around the upper edge of the bed-rail, and is provided with an eye . . . for connection with the clamp" (lines 65-74).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Kiam, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine.
Patent for improvement in stalk-choppers particularly adapted for chopping cotton. When the chopper is started the sprocket upon one of the traveling wheels will impart motion to the sprocket through the medium of the sprocket-chain, which will rotate the gear-wheel and in turn the pinion and the crank will impart a reciprocatory motion to the pitman and the horizontal bar, this will give the cutter-blade a reciprocatory motion. The speed of the reciprocatory chopping blade can be regulated. (Lines 45-55) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Guyton, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for improvements in churn-motors by using the combination of an upright supporting frame, “a shaft journaled in the frame, means for rotating the shaft,…..corresponding with the size of the joint between the dasher-staff and pitman, substantially as specified.” (Line 5-15, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
MaGee, William Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Bedder and Planter.
Patent for improvements in cotton bedders and planters in which when the machine “is used for planting, the seeding mechanism will be in place and the plow-beams are placed near together. The plow upon beam A will open a drill to receive the seed from the spout which extends downwardly in rear of the plow.” (Lines 114-121) “When the machine is used for bedding, the plow-beams are opened, and the seed-planting mechanism may be removed or simply thrown out of gear.” (Lines 109-113) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Parris, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster Attachment for Plows.
Patent for "a simple and practical attachment for a sulky or other plow which will enable the operator to readily turn the plow at any point where this may be desired while the plow is in service, and furthermore, to furnish a device of the above-indicated character which will be especially well adapted to facilitate the turning movement of a disk plow and dispense with the use of a tongue to guide the plow." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Waters, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Axle for Plows, Planters, and the like.
Patent for an adjustable axle "for use in connection with wheel mounted or sulky plows, of the middle burster or lister type, or for use in connection with planters and other devices for tilling or working the soil" (lines 10-14) and which allows for the plow to run evenly despite the evenness or unevenness of the soil.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Dalley, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a safety valve that closes a conduit when a change in pressure occurs that shuts off the supply of fluid (or gas) until the valve is manually reset.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Ruffner, Earl S., of Wichita Falls, Texas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Splicer.
Patent for "a wire-patcher by which the wire rails of fences may be spliced when broken and stretched when any slack occurs." (Lines 16-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Massey, Joseph Borygard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Willie, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Cycle Internal-Combustion Engine and Method of Operating Engines of this Type.
Patent for a two-cycle type of internal combustion engine to make the engine more effective. This invention can be used on motor vehicles, motor boats, flying machines and the like.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
McKiearnan, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella.
Patent for a new and improved sun umbrella. This design is "adapted to be attached to the person of the wearer, consisting of the top or cap piece having the projecting studs or pivots, fixed ribs, fastened rigidly in the back part of the cap, fixed supports bent to form the bulge and adapted to be fastened with their lower ends in a suitable brace or support, and moveable ribs arranged in pairs and pivoted upon the studs or pivots" (lines 73-81).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Egan, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machinery
Patent for a drill used to drill wells in alluvial deposits. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Motor.
Patent for an internal combustion engine which "embodies an improved construction of cylinders and connections between the pistons and the crank shaft" (lines 23-25) and which "will be simple, light, composed of comparatively few parts and capable of generating great power" (lines 28-31).
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Brown, Jared V., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for "improvements in wheels particularly designed for use on harvesters in heavy or muddy ground." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 19, 1891
Creator:
Stroud, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for a type of insecticide for cotton and vegetable plants. Particularly effective for use against the "boll-weevil" of cotton plants.
Date:
May 26, 1903
Creator:
Bourlon, Eugene A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vestibule Stock-Car
Patent for a vestibule stock car designed to securely hold the doors of a vestibuled train in a manner that ensures safety. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Buckner, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.
Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Royall, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History