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Combined Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a combined cultivator and cotton-chopper, to "provide an improved cotton-chopping mechanism which is adapted to be combined with and operated in connection with a sulky-cultivator, whereby a growing crop of cotton may be plowed and chopped or hoed simultaneously" (lines 15-20).
Date:
March 13, 1900
Creator:
Blaschke, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bake-Oven
Patent for "an oven through which a current of cool or heated air may be passed to maintain the same at a desired temperature for either purposes of baking, evaporating, drying or roasting substances therein, as may be found desirable" (lines 10-15).
Date:
June 12, 1900
Creator:
Turner, Robert W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corner Brace and Hinge for Screens
Patent for combined corner brace and hinge for screens. Illustration included.
Date:
June 12, 1911
Creator:
Kirk, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a new cotton chopper with improvements that have the ability to raise or lower the height of the blades and keep them nearly horizontal to the ground, including illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1900
Creator:
Smith, Gilbert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bucksaw.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in bucksaws to provide a simple construction to secure the saw-blade detachably in position and to tighten the same to any degree of operation." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1900
Creator:
Henry, Hugh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date:
June 12, 1888
Creator:
Beach, Philemon Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for "sliding doors for freight cars, stock cars, &c., in which the car door is suspended at its upper end by means of suitable hangers engaging a track or guide rail extended above and to one side of the door-way in such manner that the door, when unfastened, may be made to slide sidewise to give access to the interior of the car." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Mooney, Patrick T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Level.
Patent for a new and improved combination level. This design "is broadly to provide a combined carpenter's and surveyor's level of a cheap, simple, light, and durable form, and adapted for use as a carpenter's plumb and level or a surveyor's level interchangeably without the removal or change of any of its parts; and to this end in consists in the conformation and arrangement of parts" (lines 19-26).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Sands, James Harley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for clothes pin with illustration attached. This pin was created to allow ease shifting of clothes hanging from the clothe line. Additionally the clothes pin does not pinch the clothes it holds in place.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
McKinney, Arthur C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for improved propulsion for airplanes involving propellors in the front and rear of the plane. This aids in regulating air currents to stabilize flight, landing and speed. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Campbell, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for windmill for utilizing wind or water power (lines 9-10).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Sickles, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather and Fire Strip for Box Car Doors.
Patent for a new and improved weather and fire strip for box car doors. This design "relates to an improved device for closing the space between the rear edge of the doors of box-cars and the side of the car, so as to prevent sparks or water from entering through the space and damaging the goods in the car" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Strap Fastener.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple trunk strap fastener meant to "insure a strong tightening of the same without resorting to the old laborious method of buckling the strap about the baggage, while at the same time the invention also contemplates the employment of a specific arrangement of the strap about the article being bound therewith, in combination with the fastener proper whereby a stronger and more efficient strapping is effected" (lines 16-25).
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Webb, William James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Hinge.
Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for an automatic valve for use upon hydraulic or suction dredges to prevent sore material such as clay, sand and mud from preventing the efficient use of the dredge sure to the closing of heavy material in the mouth of the dredge. The valve is intended to supply water to flush out the mouth of the dredge.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Miller, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Running-Gear.
Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
Date:
June 12, 1906
Creator:
Singler, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a device that combines three tools - a lifting-jack, a clamp, and a wire-stretcher all in one. It does so without sacrificing the functionality of any part.
Date:
June 12, 1906
Creator:
White, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train Signaling System
Patent for trains that use an alarm system that alerts the engineer if there is an issue with the automatic air-brakes in any of the train cars. This alarm system allows for users in any car to alert the engineer and does not diminish the effectiveness of the air brake system.
Date:
June 12, 1906
Creator:
Gerard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator.
Patent for a station-indicator for trolley cars meant to "produce an automatic apparatus of this kind which is worked by the movement of the car and in which a map is employed, which is moved in such a way that the various points at which the car stops will always be correctly indicated" (lines 13-18).
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Baker, Artemas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tortilla-Making Machine.
Patent for a machine for making tortillas "easily, conveniently and rapidly" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Gutiérrez, Refugio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Removing Floors, Siding, Scaffolds, etc.
Patent for a tool that is used to remove floors, siding, scaffolds, etc. The device is designed to save material and labor. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 12, 1912
Creator:
Hunt, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pressed Metal Wheel
Patent for improvements to pressed metal wheels. This improvement is directed at the assembly and securing of hub members attached to the wheel.
Date:
June 12, 1916
Creator:
Simmons, O.G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel for Vehicles.
Patent for spring-wheel that will supply resiliency for shock absorption, preventing shocks and jarring to the body of the vehicle.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Crowe, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Manure-Scraper.
Patent for a handheld scraper with a handle added at a 45-degree angle and rivets to secure the shank.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Heller, Louis & Neese, Elo
System:
The Portal to Texas History