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Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.
Date:
August 13, 1867
Creator:
Adams, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint, which is long lasting and rigid.
Date:
September 13, 1910
Creator:
Adams, Powell O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint, which is rigid and locks in place.
Date:
September 13, 1910
Creator:
Adams, Powell Orgain
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard Doors and the Like
Patent for improved guards for doors.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banana-Case
Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Aiken, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "pin-and-link car-couplings to enable the same to couple automatically and to be readily uncoupled without going between cars, and to provide means for holding the link in substantially a horizontal position for guiding it into the mouth of a draw-head to avoid going between cars and guiding the link by hand." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Allen, George F.; Allen, Charles D. & Martin, Richard W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oiler
Patent for an oiler. This invention is designed to be attached to a broom for the distribution.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Allen, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Separating Machine
Patent for machines for separating the textile fiber of various plants, and has for its objects generally to simplify such machines, perfect their product, and avoid waste (lines 11-15) with illustrations.
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Allision, Samuel Benjamin & Dorrestein, C. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a swing that consists of a frame, a wooden horse to ride on, a U-shaped hanger that is attached to the seat in the back and front, a pulley-like rocker attached to the top of the frame, a bolt that is securing the rocker to the hanger, two bars that go from the horse seat to the pulley, and a chord that attaches the two bars and goes around the top of the pulley.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Alston, Samuel I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing.
Patent for a speed transmission device that simply and efficiently changes the gears in an automobile especially at fluctuating speeds.
Date:
September 13, 1921
Creator:
Anderson, Bert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a new and improved hame. This design "has relation to hames, and more particularly to the means of securing the hames adjustable to each other, and for connecting the usual parts of the harness thereto; and among the objects in view are to provide an easily-manipulated serviceable hame connection that may be adjusted to fit any sized collars, and which may be constructed at a minimum cost" (lines 11-19).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuse-Block.
Patent for the Fuse Block. Patent is an improvement to the existing Fuse Block. It allows safer working conditions for those who have to replace or install new fuse blocks at night and/or the rain.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Anderson, Ulin S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Triple Valve
Patent for a triple valve for air brakes on trains that gives the engineer more control over the brakes.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Anderson, Williamson D. & Shearer, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power-Driven-Implement Frame
Patent for improvements in power driven implement frames, specifically in tractors, with illustrations.
Date:
January 13, 1920
Creator:
Armstrong, Ira
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator
Patent for a refrigerator. This invention uses ice for cooling and designed to provided greater cooling efficiency. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Baer, Sylvan Titche
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Ironing And Fluting Machines.
Patent for improvements to Ironing and Fluting Machines.
Date:
June 13, 1878
Creator:
Bailey, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Crossing
Patent for a railroad crossing. Illustration included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Baker, Horace A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for a cotton press. This invention compresses and feeds cotton in a continuous spiral layer bat. The cotton goes to a revolving press of a cylindrical formation where they are compressed and condensed into a bale. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Baker, Horace A. & Crowson, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signaling Device.
Patent for an electric signal device which has a shelf with a pad of paper, which when lowered signals a central location elsewhere. It is optimized for use by manufacturing companies watchmen and telegraph operators to send in reports of their location at various intervals.
Date:
August 13, 1907
Creator:
Baker, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signal Device
Patent for a railway signal device used to "remind a telegraph operator of orders received concerning a given train" (lines 11-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 13, 1907
Creator:
Baker, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker.
Patent for an improved cotton picker and cleaner that is cylindrical in design, with a drum that contains rows of spikes or teeth and which rotates by a connecting shaft that can be connected to a motor. Includes illustrations.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Ball, William D. & Bradburn, Justin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Foot-Warmer
Patent for a device that uses electricity to provide warmth to a person's feet as well as any other parts of the body. It may be used in and out of a bed, and it may be used as "a light reflector for treating certain diseases by strong rays of light concentrated and applied directly to the body" (lines 17-20).
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Ballard, Silas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting frame that has "a novel means of supporting and tilting the track, and also other features" (lines 15-16). The frame is suspended in a track, and the track can be tilted so the frame can run in bot directions on the track.
Date:
March 13, 1894
Creator:
Banker, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Implement
Patent for an irrigating implement. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Banks, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History