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Agricultural Machine
Patent for an agricultural machine that consists of a rotary cutter and a fixed horizontal cutter. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Evans, Lucias S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for a foot trap for catching animals known for their furs that will prevent the animal from gnawing the trap or his foot off.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Roberson, Elige L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ariel Navigation
Patent for an airplane which will maintain its balance in the air and can be easily maneuvered up and down and around in the air.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Nichols, Jack Lloyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for a "strong, durable, efficient, easy of operation, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 20-23) automatic railway gate. It "is to provide a swinging gate and automatic means of particular construction for operating the gate" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Turvan, Jim O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lamp
Patent for an automobile lamp that will rotate the direction the tires of the car turn.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Wogenstahl, Leo J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blowpipe.
Patent for an improved blowpipe (or hydrocarbon torch), which when activated causes "an extremely hot needle flame" for a Bunsen burner (lines 18-19). Patent contains an illustration and instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Downie, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line.
Patent for a clothes line that improves on a clothes line previously granted to Lane and Kelly (No. 449,480) that improves how the wire sections connect so that the clothes can be easily attached and detached because there will be less pressure on the clamping loops.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Lane, Fernando G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Holder.
Patent for a coin holder, which holds a set of coins worth a specific amount.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Vandervoort, Freegift
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Roofing And Paving.
Patent for a process "to produce a compound which is strong, tenacious, and pliable, which will not be affected by climatic changes, and which will resist the corrosive action of acids and alkalies; and to this end my invention consists in a compound composed of asphaltum, pine-tar, and oxide of iron, as will more fully hereinafter appear.” (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.
Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Thresher.
Patent for a cotton-boll thresher which opens the bolls and separates the cotton. This thresher tries to improve on others by making them "strong, durable, efficient, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 21-23); patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Bryan, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper And Cultivator
Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Zoll, George
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a simple and effective cotton cleaning machine that removes foreign matter from cotton before or after ginning. This enhances the cotton's worth and quality. The cotton will not get torn during this process.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Smith, Jonathan N.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Knife.
Patent for a new cotton knife to provide more versatility in its use. It is "for sampling bales of cotton, and [...] cutting the bagging of the cotton, and a hook whereby a sample of cotton may be plucked out" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Bowers, Jacob R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for getting a good knowledge on how to use a cultivator, detailed instructions are provided.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Blalock, Justice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Disk
Patent for a cultivator disk. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Harris, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Hame Attachment.
Design patent for a hame attachment that is symmetrical in configuration making it adaptable to be used in either the right or left hand.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Surghnor, Daniel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Hatchet or Ax Head.
Design patent for a hatchet or ax head that is marked by a substantially wedge-shaped claw configured to the head.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Charpiot, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Shade Insect-Destroyer
Patent for an electric shade insect destroyer where the shade acts as a lamp shade and a insect catcher.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Levine, Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan and Motoro Therefor.
Patent for a motor-propelled fan that can attach to any support, especially beds steads and other furniture. The motor is simple and can be easily manipulated.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Sneckner, George A. & Roth, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeding-Chamber and Door for Baling-Presses.
Patent for a feeding chamber and door for baling presses that vertically extends so that "the feed material need not be tucked down by hand or foot to a level of the baling chamber, as this is accomplished by the door being closed down, a lever and weight can be attached to the door to properly depress the material to allow the door to latch, and as the door prevents the material from bulging up the compressing can be accomplished direct in the feeding chamber, the plunger need not pass but a short distance beyond the feeding chamber thus requiring less movement of the plunger and thus gaining more power" (lines 23-35).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History