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Combined Railway-Rail Chair and Tie
Patent for an improved railway-rail chair and tie
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Marks, Nicholas Marie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Work-Holder
Patent for a work holder designed to hold structures such as doors, windows, and shutters while in construction. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
De Bord, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inprovement in Sulky-Cultivators.
Patent for an improved sulky cultivator which lists description on how to build the cultivator.
Date:
January 10, 1871
Creator:
Jordan, Hugh P
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Felly and Tire Holder
Patent for a vehicle felly and tire holder for joining the ends of a felly together and joining the tire to the felly. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Weehunt, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Trap
Patent for an insect trap. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Smith, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leveling Device for Traction Engines
Patent for a leveling device for traction engines. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Brown, Daniel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to an improvement in . . . the construction of the mold-board and to the arrangement thereof relative to the plowshare. The mold-board, instead of being curved or concave, as has usually been the case, is . . . made perfectly flat, and so constructed that it projects at one corner slightly beyond the upper edge of the plowshare. . . . [C]onsequently the plow can be moved through the soil with less difficulty" (lines 13-25).
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Domschke, Charles.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler
Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Walkup, John W. & Walkup, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design consists in "the combination of the manipulating-levers, the followers, and the toggle-arms, of which arms the outer ends of two are connected to the outer ends of the levers, while their inner ends are connected to the sides of the follower near its inner end, and the outer ends of the others are connected to the levers" (lines 96-102). The inner ends of these other toggle-arms have "their inner ends . . . connected to the sides of the other follower near its inner end" (lines 1-3).
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Gordon, Lorenzo Dow
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Purifying Oils
Patent for a new and useful improvement in the method of purifying oils, particularly applicable to cracked gasoline.
Date:
January 10, 1922
Creator:
Alexander, Clive M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock for Plow Trucks.
Patent for a new and improved stock for plow-trucks. This design "provide[s] an improved stock and suitable devices for connecting a plow to any pair of wheels and axle forming a part of a wagon, by which simple additional connections a farmer may construct a sulky-plow in a cheap and simple manner" (lines 8-13).
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Hinson, Asa Chandler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grease Cup.
Patent for a grease cup used to lubricate machine parts.
Date:
January 10, 1920
Creator:
Allen, Arthur Chester John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasoline Purifier
Patent for improved Gasoline-Purifiers, based off of prior models.
Date:
January 10, 1920
Creator:
Harris, Ward Rolland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly Trap
Patent for a fly trap. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Moncus, Joseph Gideon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Fan.
Patent for a new and improved power fan. This design consists in "the combination of the slowly-revolving spring-barrel and the toothed gearing, the pitman-rod operated from the revolving gearing by a crank, the fan-lever connected to the pitman-rod, a weight sliding upon the fan-lever, and a ratchet mechanism for automatically raising the sliding weight" (lines 78-84).
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Mason, James Alexander; Mulkey, Elijah F. & Houston, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress Stuffing Machine
Patent for a device to stuff a mattress, comprising a combination of ropes, pulleys and gears.
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Stephenson, E. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Step for Freight Cars
Patent for a safety step for freight rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Neale, Ancel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steering Device and Brake for Tractors
Patent for new and useful improvements for the steering and stopping of tractors, particularly for the machines that are extremely difficult and laborous to manually steer and apply brakes. The invention permits the controlling of the direction of movement of the behicle by disconnecting the source of power from the wheel(s) at one side while those at the other side contrinue to rotate under power. The invention allows for braking to be used to slow the motion of the tractor on downward grade or when it is desired to stop.
Date:
January 10, 1922
Creator:
Lewis, Otto Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match Box
Patent for a match box. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Kuehn, Joachim F. W. & Steiner, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Syringe Nozzle-Tip.
Design patent for a syringe nozzle-tip. Leading feature of design resides in a tip-body having at one end a spheroidal head and a cylindrical stemp extended from one side of the head and provided with a plurality of spaced longitudinal grooves.
Date:
January 10, 1899
Creator:
Day, Elisha L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment that allows the cultivator height to be adjusted for digging. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Stewart, Lon Woodson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for car coupling in which the coupling is improved upon so that it is "positive and certain in operation, simple in construction, interchangeable in parts, durable in use, cheap in manufacture, and not liable to become deranged or inoperative by rough usage or by the exterior influences of weather and other conditions" (lines 10-15).
Date:
January 10, 1893
Creator:
Huguley, Job C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date:
January 10, 1893
Creator:
McDade, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History