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Pipe-Puller.
Patent for a device that is specially designed for pulling or lifting a drill stem that is "stuck" in a bore well.
Date:
May 18, 1920
Creator:
Simmons, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Structure
Patent for a building support structure for bridges, buildings, dams, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 5, 1908
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Sign.
Patent for an electric sign, which lights up each letter individually and turns them all off at the same time after being on a short while.
Date:
May 24, 1910
Creator:
Miller, Leonard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish Net
Patent for fish net. Illustration included.
Date:
May 10, 1910
Creator:
Gilstrap, David P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roof-Shoe
Patent for shoes worn by carpenters working on shingle roofs. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Phinny, Christopher W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. This invention consists is a "pneumatic apparatus for conveying cotton when picked from the plant, and comprises a suction-fan and casing therefor, which latter has pipes and through which air is drawn" (lines 15-19). Illustration included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Bennie, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Pippin, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cork Extractor.
Patent for a new and improved automatic cork extractor. This design "consists, principally, of a vertically-moving and partially-rotating blade having a harpoon-shaped or shouldered head for piercing and drawing the corks; in laterally opening and closing jaws for holding the necks of the bottles; in pivoted and laterally-moving pointed levers for throwing the parts of the corks away from the blade when withdrawn, and in the construction and combination of the parts of the device" (lines 14-23).
Date:
May 24, 1881
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved feed-cutter. This design consists in "a body having bottom and sides provided at their forward ends with a metallic plate and supporting-leg, and frame having sill, uprights, and panels, in combination with frame sliding in grooves in the uprights and provided with knife, lever, swinging link having offset, and inclined trough having sides provided with detents" (lines 92-100).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Wilson, John Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History