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Design for a Nut Cracker.
Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dielectric Separator
Patent for an apparatus that "separates substances of different dielectric capacities" (lines 12-13). Illustrations included.
Date:
May 19, 1908
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator, Cleaner, and Feeder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton elevators, cleaners, and feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1898
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. This is an improvement over previous gins. The invention uses air blasting methods and dispenses with brush drums. Illustration included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for a cotton press. Illustration included.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Stephens, Louis K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Ledbetter, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder
Patent for a new "Cotton-Gin Feeder, Drier, and Cleaner" (line 6.) for the purpose of disintegrating "dry, and clean damp and dirty seed-cotton" (lines 10-11).
Date:
May 12, 1900
Creator:
Brown, Charles William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner with beater arms attached to the shaft of the machine.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Feeding Mechanism
Patent for a mechanism designed to cleanse cotton of dust or other foreign particles or objects before being fed. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interest Calculator
Patent for an adjustable calendar for calculating interest between two dates, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for improvements on money-changing machines to include multiple coin holding tubes and require the user to push only one key lever for change.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device.
Patent for an invention relating to the amusement device. Advantages and illustrations of the invention and amusement device are included.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Moore, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Lamp-Shade.
Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Landers, Charles G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for a crate for eggs which allows the eggs to be suspended in individual compartments for shipping. The crate will be lined with flexible material that will cushion the egg absorbing shock, including illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Smith, Nora S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad
Patent for knee-pads that are used for berry or cotton pickers.
Date:
May 3, 1915
Creator:
Holsey, Walter R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Linter-Float-Driving Mechanism.
Patent for the improvement of the linter-float-driving mechanism of float drives for cotton linters. The invention produces a positive driving mechanism for a float and removes the use of a belt tightening idler.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Stephens, Louis K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for Reduction of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Esters
Patent for saturated fatty acid reduction using hydrogen, a palladium group catalyzer, and a fat solvent.
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Maryott, Carlton H
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mill for Grinding or Crushing Cotton-Seed or the Like.
Patent for improvements to the grinding or crushing of materials in mills by eliminating the hammering action by the use of supported ball bearings. This decreases the amount of power needed to operate the mill and includes illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Nolen, Robert Rufus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for an improved hyrdrocarbon burner that includes "an overhanging generating element of suitable construction in combination with a particular base having a burner jet surrounded by air admitting jets [...] to be installed in the various forms of stoves and grates" (lines 11-26), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Franklin, Oliver H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grave-Marker.
Patent for a new and useful Grave-Marker. The body of the improved grave marker or cradle is elongated or somewhat elliptical in contour, and its central portion is open, in order that the grave marker or cradle may surround a grave.
Date:
May 5, 1914
Creator:
Kimball, Herbert E
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Timing Mechanism for Automatic Oil Pumping Systems.
Patent for a timing mechanism for automatic oil-pumping systems, which adds improvements to a previous patent (Serial No.788,483). This patent includes a "novel mechanism for controlling the alternate action of a pressure and vacuum directed into a well" from the surface instead of the lower portion of the well (lines 33-35). Patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Stephenson, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Tongs
Patent for ice tongs to assist with lifting ice "and other articles," with a special feature on the device that will display the weight of the item being carried (line 10).
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Henderson, Douglas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Filler for Elastic Rubber Vehicle Tires
Patent for filler material to support the exterior casing of rubber tires for vehicles. The patent illustrates and describes filler material to enhance an improved rubber tire of efficient and superior quality to previous vehicle tires.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Staten, Claude S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History