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Improvement in Farm-Fences.
Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1875
Creator:
Rush, Alonzo & Yarbrough, Fisher
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cable-Pump
Patent for an improved pump that can be used in connection with deep wells and provides improved construction that alleviates the necessity of having a long line of extra pipe and the troubling pump rod.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Fender, Joe N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Cleaner.
Patent for a track cleaner "particularly adapted for use in saw mills, planing mills and the like, where it is necessary to keep tracks clear of shavings, saw dust and the like" (lines 15-18), includes illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1915
Creator:
Lynch, Charley W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus.
Patent for "a new and Improved Apparatus for Destroying Ants" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1875
Creator:
Grafton, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon burners that is inexpensive and can take refined oil or heavy crude oil and make it useable as fuel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
St. Wrba, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Recorder.
Patent for recording instruments to use in connection with automobiles to record the speed of conveyance during the period of travel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Bowdish, Harry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Cutting Machine.
Patent for an improved paper cutting machine that can achieve more precise cuts for labels, paper boxes, and cartons, and also has a clamping mechanism to hold the paper in place.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Downie, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press.
Patent for "a novel form of baling-press which will be readily transportable and owing to its peculiar construction can be manipulated by hand, a still further object being to provide such an improved baling-press that the wire ties can be wrapped around the bale after its formation easily and quickly and the bale can be readily removed from the press after it has been wired." (Lines 16-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Hawk, Nathaniel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fountain Drafting-Pen.
Patent for a fountain drafting pen, which has a rubber handle that when flexed sends out the pen tip with ink, and and when flexed again takes the point back into the ink reservoir in the handle.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Smith, Edward Ruthven
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Igniting Device.
Patent for improvements in electrical ignitors that can be put over a gas burner and operated by the pressure of the gas flowing from the burner, which can ignite the gas.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Shuford, Carl H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge.
Patent for a "gravity-hinge for causing a gate to automatically close, and which is susceptible of such adjustment that if the gate-post and the latch-post, either or both, become disarranged as regards their perpendicular position, or if they are not exactly coincident with relation to each other, the gate can be centered relatively to the latch-post, or rather the hinged end of the gate can be set precisely perpendicular or be shifted laterally to any required angle of inclination for the purpose of causing the gate to properly close and engage the latch on the latch-post." (Lines 11-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Berry, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Point Lock
Patent for switch-point lock "provides novel locking means for securing the movable member of a railway switch, thereby preventing accidents which are occasioned by the movable members of railway switches being loose" (lines 9-13).
Date:
July 27, 1915
Creator:
Lambert, Joseph T. & Cronin, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
FSA News - Lone Star State Edition: July 2023
Monthly newsletter from the Texas State Office of the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) discussing news and activities of the FSA, funding opportunities, and other information related to farming and agriculture in Texas.
Date:
July 27, 2023
Creator:
United States. Farm Service Agency. Texas State Office.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary-Drill Head.
Patent for a drill apparatus that improves the head gears and driving mechanisms that makes for an efficient driving of the apparatus and allows for free vertical movement.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Header.
Patent for a header for removing the heads of grain, which adjusts to different height grains.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Gregory, George L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a pump for pumping water from streams for use in irrigation, which is mounted on a float in the stream.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Jeanes, Benjamin H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Grinding Triple Valves.
Patent for a device for grinding triple valves to proper sizes and shapes for them to be inserted into things.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Innis, Ezra E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rope Guide and Protector.
Patent for improvements to rope guides and protectors for "unloading grain from cars, to prevent the rope from wearing during its passage around the door jamb of the [train] car, and also to prevent friction during such passage of the rope" (lines 14-18).
Date:
July 27, 1915
Creator:
Early, Allen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Appliance for Agricultural Implements.
Patent for a pivoted draft tongue for farm implements that allows the tongue to move from side to side and be controlled by the driver.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Hartman, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Arc-Light Reflector.
Patent for an electric arc light reflector, including an annular band to support the reflector on the arc-light cone, and a reflector with an aperture.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Bolles, Charles Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Sugar Cane Hook.
Patent for a sugar cane hook that provides a pair of outwardly-branching and downwardly and inwardly curved hooks.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Beall, George Ashcom
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton planters and cultivators by “attaching one or more levers to the axle which are pivoted to a frame below the axle, in which the levers are also connected with the caster-wheel in front, whereby the frame may be raised so as to elevate the cultivators above the earth.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 27, 1880
Creator:
Walsh, James D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for improvements in cotton chopping attachments for cultivators that is relatively inexpensive that is highly useful in chopping and plowing cotton plan.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Martin, William A. & Roebuck, Mathew P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History