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- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plowshare, of cutting-knives secured to the rear end thereof and extending rearwardly therefrom in an upward direction, and a bar connecting the mold-board and landside and arranged below the cutting knives" (lines 68-73).
- Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for a new invention of pipe-wrench, how it is made and how it is used.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a content chopping device with an adjustable lever and cutters. The cotton chopper can be attached to different cultivator frames (farm equipment) and adjusted to chop or thin out different rows of cotton stalks (or other plants).
- Geology and Mineral Resources of McLennan County
- Report published in a scientific bulletin, describing the geology and mineral resources that reside in McLennan county.
- Vehicle Top Support
- Patent for a vehicle top support. Illustration included.
- Buggy-Top Retainer
- Patent for a buggy top retainer designed to keep the top of a buggy stable as it is driving over rough terrain. Illustrations included.
- Grain Door
- Patent for a railway car door that is designed to assist with loading and unloading of grain
- Tractor
- Patent for "novel features of construction and combinations of parts" in tractors to ensure a steady, even pace of travel and allow for traversing uneven landscape while maintaining a level setting, including illustrations and instructions.
- Electrode for Secondary Batteries.
- Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
- Churn.
- Patent for improvements to churns, "and has special reference to what are known as 'vibrating-dasher' churns." (lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Buckle Attachment.
- Patent for a buckle attachment for buckles that do not use riveting, sewing or other fastening, "and when so placed together, and the strap inserted and buckled, the whole is as firmly held together as if riveted, sewed or fastened with any of the ordinary methods" (lines 13-16).
- Elevated Irrigation System
- Patent for an elevated irrigation system that relates to a useful system for supplying and distributing water, for the irrigation of large tracts of land.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, in which considerable power ma be exercised without the use of complicated machinery, and which shall be rapid and effective in operation" (lines 9-14).
- Air Ship.
- Patent for air ship design lifted by balloon with vertical adjustable sails. Accompanied with illustrations.
- Corn or Cotton Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
- Fruit Picker.
- Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design consists in "two bags or receptacles [which] are secured upon an endless chain or cord, which passes over a pulley at the top of the pole of the picker and under a pulley near the lower end of the pole, so that the weight of one fruit picked and received in the bag will draw the other bag upward ready to receive another fruit, while the fruit in the descended bag may be removed from the said bag, which will thus be ready to ascend, when another fruit is picked" (lines 24-34).
- Well Bucket.
- Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
- Safety Air-Brake Appliance.
- Patent for a safety air brake appliance, which automatically applies the brakes on each car if a car derails.
- Hose-Nozzle Holder.
- Patent for a hose nozzle holder, particularly for garden hoses, with illustrations.
- Resilient Wheel.
- Patent for improvements in the structure of wheels.
- Agitator.
- Patent for an improved device to produce a useful agitation of liquid in washing machines by configuring the paddles or blades in the most effective manner, including illustrations.
- Horse-Detacher
- Patent for a horse detacher for use on wagons that prevents accidental separation.
- Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions
- Patent for "new and useful Imporivements in Processes of Recovering Precious Metals from Their Solutions, and which I designate as the 'Sulfuric-Acid Process;' [...] to separate the precious metals from their cyanid solutions in a rapid and thorough matter and to recover the precious metals from solutions thereof." (lines 5-8 & 22-26)
- Hydrocarbon-Stove
- Patent for a hydrocarbon stove that allows irons to be heated on it.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.
- Vehicle-Tire
- Patent for a vehicle tire with improved springs.
- Automatic Printing Device
- Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
- Trace-Carrier.
- Patent for improvements in trace-carriers in which it would “provide each with a buckle or similar means that can be attached to the back-band of a harness for horses. The purpose is to provide means to a trace-chain which may be readily inserted in the carrier to prevent from removal, either accidentally or otherwise, so long as the carrier remains in position for service.” (Lines 12-20) Illustration is included.
- Shutter Slat Fastener
- Patent for a shutter slat fastener. Illustration included.
- Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for a weed turning attachment for plows, which is adjustable to different size weeds.
- Sad-Iron Heater.
- Patent for a portable device for heating sad-irons (as well as other heaters) with a small oil tank for a burners and a cover. The device will regulate the amount of oil and provide coverage that will maintain the high temperature of the sad-iron.
- Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: June 23, 2014
- Newsletter of Cecil Bell, Jr. for his constituents in district 3 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature.
- Felt Picker
- Patent for a felt picker. This invention is for use of piano-workmen in making flexible the felts in piano-actions.
- Pipe-Clamp.
- Patent for a pipe clamp for drawing well casings out of wells that can be used on different size pipes and grips harder as resistance increases.
- Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
- Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
- Rail Tie and Fastening Device.
- Patent for improved railroad cross ties that can be used in reverse, prevent creeping rails, and be economically manufactured.
- Wheel
- Patent for a wheel with "improved construction. The principal object of the invention is to provide a wheel which will be puncture-proof and will ride very easily" (lines 8-12).
- Windmill Attachment.
- Patent for an attachment for hand or windmill pumps in order to reduce stress of upward and load moving strokes, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Press
- Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
- Sampling Device for Artesian Wells
- Patent for a sampling device for artesian wells to detect when oil has been reached.
- Measuring Device
- Patent for improvements to the measuring device used to ascertain the depth of a well.
- Attachment for Display Figures
- Patent for an attachment for display figures that fills out the sleeves of a garment.
- Process of Distilling Oil
- Patent for a new and improved process of distilling oil by inventor James E. Biggins.
- Propeller
- Patent for a boat propeller that does not create a vacuum behind it and is more efficient than other propellers.
- Pie-Carrier Cabinet
- Patent for an improved pie carrier cabinet. This cabinet is designed to be strong, light, and produced cheaply. It provides increased accessibility and convivence when it comes to viewing or removing pies from it.
- Penholder.
- Patent for a new and improved pen holder. This design "relates to improvements in penholders whereby the pen may be automatically discharged or ejected from the holder" (lines 8-11). It consists "of a staff with tenoned end, a portion of which is cut out of its upper surface with a downward bevel to its lower end, a beveled slide adapted to fit and slide upon the beveled cut in the staff, said slide being provided with a slight shoulder upon its upper side and a hole through the same for a screw or pin, a tube longitudinally slotted inclosing said staff and slide" (lines 38-47).
- Dental Plugger.
- Patent for a dental plugger which has a movable cylinder on the interior with a "piston-like mallet working in the cylinder and adapted to strike the same, to impart movement to the dental tool" (lines 93-95).
- Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer
- Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
- Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer
- Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
- Method of Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
- Patent for "to utilize a heretofore waste product, and by means of a dry process to reduce the same to fine particles, which, being capable of felting, constitute stock" (lines 14-18).