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Advertising Device
Patent for Advertising Device
Date:
July 28, 1903
Creator:
Smith, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron.
Patent for an andiron that combines with a gated screen including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Baker, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke
Patent for an animal poke which is worn around the belly of the cow or other animal, and pokes the animal when it pushes against a fence and has a hook attached to the back of the poke which will catch onto the fence if they try to go underneath or over the fence.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Bush, Caswell C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.
Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Broadcast Headers.
Patent for harvesting machines that provisions for adjustable attachments and elevator mechanisms used to head maize or similar grain crops.
Date:
July 28, 1920
Creator:
Price, Filmore M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baking-Pan
Patent for a Baking Pan for bread and similar foods, noted for its unique construction, such "that the heat given off from the fuel burner will be confined so as to completely surround the pan, in which the articles to be cooked, are located" (lines 13-17).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Boger, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling presses that press for balling hay that simplify the construction of presses of this type and produce a press readily movable from one place to another.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Redding, Robert B. & Barnett, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Biplane
Patent for a biplane design that has improved lift, steering, stability, and landing, including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Herrmann, Ernst W. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders
Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener.
Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design consists "[i]n a can-opener, the combination, with a radius-bar having a handle at one end and a vertical fulcrum or pivot-pin, of an adjustable sleeve mounted on the bar and carrying two cutters, one being adapted to act as a guide and the other as a cutter" (lines 27-32).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Misener, Richard Oliver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Shading Adjuster.
Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Smith, Earl W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for improvements in clevises in which a clevis can be used upon plows or harrows. When it is used, it “will obviate the necessity of using links or open rings in connection with the clevis and the singletree, as well as enable the plowman to cause his plow to run in the soil any desired depth or to cut a narrow or wide furrow.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 28, 1891
Creator:
Bruton, Alonzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ruler and Blotter
Patent for a combined ruler and blotter (used for writing with ink). Proposed improvement of basic design by being more compact, cheaper to make, and includes a way to tear paper along the ruler's edge.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Schmidt, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes.
Patent for "improvements in the construction of doors and window-sashes, the object being to provide a door or window-sash which shall be constructed of two pieces of timber united by means of a key to prevent warping or twisting" (lines 8-13). The panel of the door or the pane of glass can also be united by the key. This design lightens and cheapens doors and window-sashes.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyor-Bucket.
Patent for a conveyor bucket, which reduces waste of material.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Barnett, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which can operate in uneven soil and attaches to a cultivator.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Allen, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a new and improved stalk chopper. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable carrying-frame, which is to be attached to the plow, a shaft on which the chopping-wheel is placed, and which is operated by the revolving axle, and the chopping-wheel having adjustable cutting blades" (lines 13-18).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Miller, Julian Tolbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "[t]he frame mounted upon sled-runners and provided with braces, draft pole, and knives, in combination with the rake having check-bar, the sliding bar, connecting bar, and lever, all co-operating" (lines 89-92).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Woodard, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable-Blade-Connecting Device For Tools.
Patent for detachable blade connecting device for tools, the importance of which lies in the fact that this tool provides "simple and efficient means for detachably supporting interchangeable blades which may be quickly removed and replaced" (lines 16-19).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Grimes, John Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Illustrating the Transposition of Musical Scales
Patent for an improvement in machines for transposing musical scales in which a marked and perforated original scale is run over the machine and automatically transported, with levers and rods to mark the sharps, flats, and other information.
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Neill, John, Frances
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "is to provide a simple and improved fence which can be built with superior facility and economy, and utilize trees in range with the fence, and which will furthermore possess advantages in point of inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 12-17).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Ferguson, John Stephenson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Tent.
Patent for a foldable two story tent with a sleeping compartment in the upper story.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Stand.
Patent for a fruit stand "so arranged that while the fruit may be freely inspected it cannot be removed from the receptacle without opening the same" (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Roberts, Odineal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a sliding gate with an improved track rail.
Date:
July 28, 1908
Creator:
Bohne, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History