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Baling Press
Patent for "an improvement in that class of presses adopted for baling hay" (lines 10-11) with illustrations.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Arnold, Cyrus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Appliance.
Patent for a draft appliance (animal-driven vehicle) with the purpose of changing and equalizing the draft between draft-animals and making the draft line easily adjustable.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
Arnold, Cyrus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Downdraft-Stove
Patent for a downdraft stove. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Atteberry, Henry E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Intermittent-Operating Mechanism
Patent for intermittent-operating mechanism. This is to improve upon the automatic regulating means for windmills in regards to supplying water to a tank.
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Bittner, Emil R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for improvements in liquid fuel burner that generates gas from liquids that requires no labor or supervision.
Date:
June 8, 1920
Creator:
Bittner, Emil R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt for Doors.
Patent for the improvement of bolt locks on double doors using a lever lock for safety and ease of locking and unlocking one or both doors, including illustration.
Date:
June 26, 1860
Creator:
Bonney, N. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bench Clamp
Patent for bench clamp.
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Briles, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved coupler, the object of the invention being to provide an improved means for elevating, holding, and releasing the coupling-pin, and also to provide a vertically-adjustable drawhead, which bae readily adjusted either during coupling or before or after.
Date:
January 19, 1892
Creator:
Brimingham, Oliver M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle
Patent for a non-refillable bottle that once filled, it does not allow anything else to be added to the bottle.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Burke, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hoe and Planter
Patent for improving on the design of devices that combine a hoe and a planter for the purpose of properly placing a seed at the cutting edge of the hoe.
Date:
October 22, 1918
Creator:
Combs, Asa Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Farming Implement.
Patent for "agricultural implements and particularly to soil tilling machines of the rotary type" (lines 9-11) ... "of simple and improved construction embodying a carrying frame, a swingingly supported adjustable frame, and a rotary tilling device mounted on the swinging frame for direct engagement with the ground" (lines 13-18).
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Corbin, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Driving Light Machinery from an Irregular Power.
Patent for light machinery that runs on irregular power. Device stores power produced by wind-wheel.
Date:
March 19, 1878
Creator:
Everhart, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wind-Wheels.
Patent for a new wind-wheel design with pivoted frame and adjustable wings.
Date:
March 19, 1878
Creator:
Everhart, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and low maintenance submerged rotary pump, including illustration.
Date:
February 22, 1859
Creator:
Fagan, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Pump.
Patent for a "submerged pump of very simple construction... one which will be efficient in its operation and not liable to get out of repair" (lines 16-20), illustration included.
Date:
March 8, 1859
Creator:
Fagan, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying the Cutting Ant.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for destroying the cutting ants in their nests." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Fenner, Ferdinand A. & Power, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. The invention consists of a locking device to prevent the jaw from sliding. Illustration included.
Date:
October 29, 1912
Creator:
Fernandez, Pedro
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Drier and Warmer.
Patent for a new and improved bed drier and warmer. This design "includes, primarily, a suitable frame of essentially elliptical form, whose ends allow of the said frame being readily slipped in between the bed and bedding or between two articles of bedding, and in connection with said frame a suitable fire-pot of portable construction" (lines 23-29).
Date:
May 14, 1889
Creator:
Fossati, Jasper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Gunlock, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller of Machinery to be used in Currents.
Patent for a propelled water wheel that is attached to the back of a vessel that uses a current of water and stream power, including illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1851
Creator:
Hardie, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Poison Distributor
Patent for "new and useful improvements in devices for sprinkling potato-vines and the like with powder - such as paris-green" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Heaton, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove and Range.
Patent for a compact combination range or stove with "a cabinet for culinary utensils" (lines 12-13). "Compartments are substantially thermally independent of each other" (lines 17-18), due to flue arrangement, reticulated baffle plate and a two-way self locking damper.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Holloway Louis Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper
Patent for stove damper to heat the cabinets evenly and thoroughly, yet allow the cabinets to remain thermally independent of each other.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Holloway, Louis Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Saw.
Patent for improvement in combination-saws is to provide a machine in which a planer, a shaper or molder, a rip saw and a cut-off saw are operated by a single motor or engine (lines 12-14). Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1913
Creator:
Hughes, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History