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Automatic Poultry-Disinfector
Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Donathan, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for an in-ground ant trap that prevents the ants from escaping once caught in the trap, including instructions and illustrations
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Knox, Jessie Lonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Measure and Tally.
Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Holland, John Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for a new ant trap design using a conical shape and reservoirs for holding kerosene to destroy ants, including illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1888
Creator:
Kell, Mathew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Friction Wagon Slide.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction wagon slide. This design "consists of flat side pieces provided with bolt-holes near their ends, and connected to diametrically-opposite points of nearly-cylindrical end pieces, which have holes through their axes for the reception of the roller-shaft. The recess is so formed that the lower portion of the end pieces shall bear against its ends when the frame is put in place. This arrangement, together with the bolts through the corners of the frame and the coupling-tongue, prevents any tendency of the frame to displacement" (lines 42-54).
Date:
July 27, 1886
Creator:
Jowell, George Ratcliff.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire-stretchers by using a combination of winding-drum, a ratchet upon the drum and wire clutches for engagement with a wire to be stretched. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
Walls, Joseph A. & Boyter, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a tool to stretch telephone wire, barb wire, and wire fencing. The tool connects to and holds in place a wire using a lock. While locked in place, the wire is stretched without the need of chains.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Armstrong, Henry H. & Armstrong, H. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet
Patent for a new design and construction of kitchen cabinets.
Date:
December 4, 1888
Creator:
Shanley, Michael H.
System:
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Kitchen-Cabinet
Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, and in which provision shall be made for the safe-keeping of all the materials and ingredients used in bread-making and in ordinary cooking as well as for pies, cakes, cold victuals and the like" (lines 9-15).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Skipper, James Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improvement to wire stretchers and splicers, to more practically "facilitate the stretching and splicing of fence wire or the like" (lines 12-13), including illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1921
Creator:
Sanderson, Auther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operation" (line 9-20).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Shanley, Michael H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jack for Turning Fly-Wheels of Engines, &c.
Patent for jacks for turning fly-wheels of engines, pulleys, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1897
Creator:
Roberts, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a metal kitchen cabinet. This cabinet is designed to be portable and protect against vermin. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Shanley, Michael H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator.
Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design consists in "[t]he improved combined flue and ventilator . . . consisting of an outer casing surmounted by a cap and provided with a central flue, funnels hinged to the outer casing and provided with flexible connections for elevating the same, and means for conducting the air downward from said funnels" (lines 8-15).
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Shanley, Michael H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for "a device that will chop cotton mechanically" (line 10-11) and require less labor including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 5, 1915
Creator:
Crum, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Storage System.
Patent for storage system to store goods without using ice or any other material for lowering temperature. This design uses strategic air circulation to achieve the desired low temperature.
Date:
August 5, 1902
Creator:
Rector, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
Baker, Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design "has relation to that class of devices for keeping vessels containing milk or other fluids cool, in which water is drawn by capillary action from a receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the vessel, cooling the vessel and its contents by evaporation; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device, and more particularly to the top of the can and the cover for the same" (lines 21-30).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Jowell, George Ratcliff
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for a combined water-cooler and refrigerator. "One object of the present invention is to improve the construction of devices of this character and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one capable of enabling the temperature of its contents to be readily controlled and quickly changed. A further object of the invention is to provide a combined water-cooler and refrigerator which may be advantageously employed as a churn-body" (lines 10-19). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1900
Creator:
Halford, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Frame for Freight Cars.
Patent for new and improved springs for transportation. This design provides "vehicles for the transportation of merchandise . . . with an interior spring-padding, and in some cases with intermediate elastic floors or partitions, by which injury to the load, by jolting while in transit, shall be prevented, and which shall further conduce to the preservation of fruits and other merchandise of a like perishable nature" (lines 22-30).
Date:
December 14, 1880
Creator:
Shirley, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for Tanning Hides.
Patent for a novel process of tanning hides of various animals.
Date:
February 19, 1918
Creator:
Moore, Rufus N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for improvements in "construction of tilting gates and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be readily opened and closed at a distance fron either side of it by a person in a vehicle or on horseback" (lines 11-16).
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Berkley, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a hame fastener "by which the ends can be securely connected together, but which may be readily disconnected when desired." (lines 10-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
Jones, David G. & Jones, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History