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Automatic Railway-Switch.
Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, James Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter
Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Morrison, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy and Process of Making Same
Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Webb, Jesse B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Ponton, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Hook
Patent for "a simple and inexpensive construction of hook which is capable of ready and convenient adjustment and with which different articles of cloth, such as may be on hand, may be used as a back-band, and also so formed as to prevent cutting or tearing of the back-band with which it is used and to be quickly and positively clamped in position on the band" (lines 13-21).
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Pool, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Cotton-Bales.
Patent for improvement in apparatus for making cotton-bales from continuous sheets or bats by “employing only a single press and which permits the ginning and bat-forming devices to be operated continuously which accumulated the cotton in light and fleecy condition during the covering and removal of the bales, which feeds the cotton from the accumulator to the baling apparatus whenever this is desired.” (Lines 68-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support.
Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Mason, Everett H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bib.
Patent for improvement in children’s bibs, by providing bibs with a pocket at its lower end to catch any food or drink that might be dropped or spilled, thereby preventing soiling of the clothes and the carpet or floor. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Ziller, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for making mattresses.
Patent for a machine for making mattresses with compressed lint-cotton inserted into a tick.
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Morgan, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Box
Patent for "a mail-box adapted to be placed at or on the house of the person receiving the mail, so as to facilitate a house-to-house delivery" (lines 8-11).
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Myer, Clayton Pittinger
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ligthtning-Arrester.
Patent for improving lightning arresters, an invention used to distribute electrical current over a large area and ground it at a different points should a building be struck by lightning.
Date:
June 15, 1901
Creator:
Wood, William D.; Roach, Henry B. & Pots, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projectile.
Patent for improvements in projectiles for use in smooth-bore guns of any caliber, the same being so grooved or rifled as to insure rapid rotation and great accuracy and range in flight. (Lines 8-11.) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Croom, Alvis F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Gun
Patent for "a cheap and simple device of this nature wherein the projectile will be held in such manner as not to interfere with sighting the catapult and wherein derived will be held in place in such manner as will prevent their accidental displacement and will yet permit of ready removal when desired" (lines 9-17).
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Wilkins, Willie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement in plows by first connecting a furrow-shoe to the moldboard, and second, by provide means for operating the plow-point to make a deep or shallow furrow and for raising and lowering covering-plows simultaneously when the plow is in operation. (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Morrison, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment
Patent for "a shovel or point attachment for plow-stocks for operation in turf, stubble, or grubby or rocky soil deep or shallow, the attachment being particularly adapted for turning stalks, weeds, grass, and stubble" (lines 11-17).
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Buster, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller
Patent "to improve the construction of stump-pullers and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will possess great strength and durability and which ma be readily operated with a minimum amount of power" (lines 10-15).
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Bethel, Ion Maywood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Bicycle
Patent for "a frame in which the motor shall be firmly supported without undue strain on any part of the machine and in which the weight of the motor shall be as low as may be and to connect the motor to the driving-axle in such way that a pedal shall also be utilized for driving the machine with little interference from the motor and with a proper balance of friction and to improve certain details and combinations of the driving-gear" (lines 10-20).
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for "simple and easily-operated mechanism for opening and closing a gate and for controlling the latch thereof by the same mechanism which opens and closes the gate" (lines 12-16).
Date:
June 11, 1901
Creator:
Seckler, Levi W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Mixing-Machines
Patent for a now and useful Scraper for Mixing-Machines, which is specifically a scraper attachment for the mixing-cylinder wherewith the material that may cling to the inner surface of the cylinder may be scraped off and the mixing operation may be thoroughly performed.
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Sliger, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder.
Patent for rein supports to be attached to the front of a buggy, with an adjustable height and being collapsible for storage.
Date:
June 11, 1901
Creator:
Hill, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Dumping Cage for Hoisting Coal, & c., from Mines.
Patent for improvements in self-dumping cage for hoisting coal or other minerals by first provide a simple and easily-controlled dumping mechanism which can be set at bottom of shaft; second, to secure a positive action of the dumping mechanism and reduce the shock and strain commonly incident to the operation of self-dumping cages; third, to provide a firmer and more easily operated dog for holding car on cage-platform. (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Burdic, Malvern W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Embroidery Attachment for Sewing-Machines
Patent for pressing device of sewing machine that will be in operative engagement with the needle to enable efficient stitching and embroidery work.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Moore, Franklin O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heater
Patent for "a heater of the above-described character which may be used in connection with a stove or furnace or a fire built on the ground in the open air and be more effective and economic in its heating and more convenient in operation than the usual methods heretofore pursued in such instances where an inexpensive and portable device of this kind could be used to great advantage" (lines 13-22).
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Harrison, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gage.
Patent for improvements on saws by providing “cleaner-teeth and arranged to permit accurate filing of the cleaner-teeth without leaving an undesirable bur and without danger of filing the teeth too short for proper working in a cut.” (Lines 10-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 11, 1901
Creator:
Steele, Daniel Carlos
System:
The Portal to Texas History