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Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton-chopper which is steered using the feet, and where the chopping apparatus is adjustable and can be raised or lowered. The chopping apparatus also rotates, and the operator can adjust the speed of rotation. Patent includes illustrations.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Engler, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a cotton-cleaner with beveled beaters attached to a central shaft. The shape of the beaters and rotation push the cotton outwards and downwards, thus preventing the cotton from clogging or collecting around the central shaft. Patent includes illustrations.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Stacy, Grover C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Decapitator.
Patent for improvements to decapitator handles which "may be very cheaply produced and will present a broad surface for the hand of the operator which will permit him to exert all necessary pressure without any discomfort to himself" (lines 71-75).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attatchment For Tractors.
Patent for Draft Attachment For Tractors for the improvement of farming tractors. This invention includes adding machinery to allow interchangeable farming tools for a wide variety of uses.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Gaida, Wale
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Front Sight for Firearms.
Patent for a luminous rear sight for firearms of all types. Including Illustration.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kaempfer, Effie May Wagner
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight
Patent for a headlight that has a dimming function.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Pepple, John Pepple
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Expressing Cage and Press.
Patent for improvements to Oil Expressing Cages and Presses "for the extraction of oil from cotton seed cake or the like" (lines 11-12) that allows for multiple oil cakes and press plates which can be "readily inserted in or removed from the press as occasion requires" (lines 22-23).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester
Patent for peanut harvesting machine. It helps pull the peanut plant from the ground easily and aids in bunching them without having to use your hands.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Phillips Willie Orman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poultry-Killer.
Patent for a new poultry killing device which is inexpensive and easy to use by anyone to kill poultry quickly and painlessly with or without decapitation. Design shape ensures that the poultry cannot twist their way out of the device.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint
Patent for a rail joint that is new and improves already existing rail joints specifically scarf joints.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
McDonald, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rear Sight For Firearms
Patent for rear sight firearm. To help aid in the night with rear vision and align for better direction when used during the night.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kaempfer Effie May Wagner
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for "a novel means for supplying liquid fuel to stoves and other burners and for igniting the fuel from a distant point."
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Peters, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for animal trap that has a mechanism in connection with spring traps, which is controlled by the closing of the trap, with U-shaped jaws that are spaced slightly apart in order to avoid severing or crushing the animals leg when the jaws of the trap closes. It is meant to prevent the animal from escaping by leaving its leg in the trap.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Manning, James, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new and useful improved invention of wrenches include both pipe wrenches and general-purpose wrenches particularly.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper Clip.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a paper clip. This invention relates to a paper clip a has for its principal object the production of a simple and efficient device for holding numbers sheets of paper together.
Date:
October 21, 1920
Creator:
Holt, Frank P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane-Kite.
Patent for a new aeroplane-kite which can be "readily dismantled and folded for shipping and easily assembled and placed in position for flying without the use of numerous fastenings and detachable parts, thereby making for simplicity and practicability" (lines 12-17). Also includes wind tunnels and a fuselage frame which is so easily assembled that a child can do it.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
McLaughlin, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump.
Patent for a new and improved air pump capable of releasing air from the cylindrical casing in one motion. The updated design will also eliminate any lubricating oil from leaking into a tire.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Lawley, Ira
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Catcher.
Patent for agricultural devices and more particularly to a device to be attached to a cultivator for catching boll weevil or the like, during the cultivation of cotton.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Stanalan, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocking Machine
Patent for an inexpensive attachment to a cotton cultivator/checking machine to improve the intake capacity of the cultivator itself. The blocking machine would be used to replace the manual labor task of chopping cotton before insertion into the cultivator for processing.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Ford, Barnie S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Coating Composition
Patent for improved non-flammable paint and multi-purpose byproduct of paint production process.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
McKay, Arthur N. & Willis, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Dispensing Machinemm
Patent for a machine can dispense potable liquids to several customers at the same time.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Ogden, Clayton N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Device.
Patent for a surface cleaning device that provides a continuously moving surface treating member which is bodily adjustable in a suitable support.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Clark, Alex A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine
Patent for a machine that treats surfaces. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Clarke, Alex A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History