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Baling-Press.
Patent for a new and useful baling press, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Harrington, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot
Patent for a simplified coffee pot that extracts coffee by using boiling water and the receptacle without changing the structure of the device.
Date:
July 4, 1905
Creator:
Haley, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a new improvement in cattle guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Type-Writer.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in book type writers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Johnson, Jahu W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can
Patent for a can. Illustration included.
Date:
July 4, 1905
Creator:
Hanna, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Prokschl, Mathias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date:
July 4, 1905
Creator:
Grubbs, Marion F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Replacer and Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved bale-band replacer and tightener. This design "provide[s] a simple and convenient device for replacing a broken bale-bind, for tightening the band around the bale, and for drawing the ends together, so as to provide the necessary slack for slipping the loop out of the tie when it is desired to remove a band" (lines 13-19).
Date:
July 4, 1882
Creator:
Lenard, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Morrow, James Morton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill
Patent for well drill that enables its upper end to be struck without disengaging the cable with an objective to provide simple, inexpensive, and convenient use.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Walker, Merit Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Brooks, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather-Strip.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved weather strip that "will be operated by the opening and closing of the door, and which will not interfere with carpets, and which will when the door is closed effectually exclude wind, rain, dust and the like" (lines 12-16).
Date:
July 4, 1893
Creator:
Bradford, McDuffee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Cabinet.
Patent for a type cabinet for storing dating type.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Chapman, Mercer E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Latch Mechanism for Spittoon-Covers.
Patent for an improved latch mechanism for sliding covers on spittoons.
Date:
July 4, 1917
Creator:
Lovece, Nicola
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for a fishing trap box that holds the bait securely and can be used for catching fish or crustaceans.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
Date:
July 4, 1871
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children
Patent for an improvement in machines for taking Photographs of small children.
Date:
July 4, 1871
Creator:
Sloan, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prod-Pole
Patent for care of live stock and particularly the pod poles. This invention is to produce a pod designed to podding the animals when they are loading or unloading for the shipment.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Bishop, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Saw-Gummer.
Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1865
Creator:
Fosterm A. K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hotel-Register.
Patent for a hotel register cabinet for holding registry sheets with a revolving top.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Duncan, Selden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for a burner constructed to admit a force of steam or air is sent through the nozzle with assigning to the fuel in fuel reservoir. This invention is used to burn the heavy crude oil.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Nicholson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley
Patent for a trolley that has a secure connection to the trolley line.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Irwin, Walter W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Parcel Carrier Guard for Bicycles
Patent for improved Parcel-Carrier Guard for bicycles. Specifically the patent helps to prevent contact with the parcel carrier guard and the front wheel.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Apple, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal Fastener for Envelops, &c.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in metal fasteners for envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Holcombe, Henry Cannon; Maddox, John Wilson & Maddox, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History