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Rolling Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a serrated device that prevents cattle from escaping.
Date:
December 25, 1917
Creator:
Belto, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy.
Patent for a medical compound to alleviate dropsy, consisting of grape-vine, spirits of niter, oil of grape-vine, extract of Spanish apple root, and common salt. Includes instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Lawhon, David W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with rotating blades.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Prokschl, Mathias
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for a large hopper-based device which generates acetylene gas.
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
Clopton, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Belt-Fasteners.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Belt-Fasteners. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 28, 1871
Creator:
Olmsted, Marcellus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination of the draw-heads provided with projections, a coupling-link, an operating-rod loosely connected to each of its ends, and a suitable support or guide through which these rods move . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a car-coupling in which the two cars are coupled together by means of a link which is provided with an operating rod at each end, both of the rods and the link being attached to one of the cars only" (lines 14-26).
Date:
April 29, 1890
Creator:
Campbell, Neil Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Young, James D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that provides an apparatus in which the parts may be readily detached for convenience in making repairs.
Date:
June 5, 1908
Creator:
Carl, Reinhold A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the âcams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.â (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1868
Creator:
Kidd, I. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Planters
Patent for a construction that will act as a plow, and aid in the process of planting corn. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 8, 1868
Creator:
Kidd, I. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder
Patent for an improved copy holder design that is "adapted for holding stenographers' notebooks and other copies and equipped with an efficient line guide, capable of easy and rapid operation to drop the line indicating means from one line to another with perfect accuracy" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Wrede, Albin C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Flue
Patent for a flue which will not crack and open, due to settling or to transverse strain. Also to provide means whereby the flue may be supported from the joists of a ceiling, against settling.
Date:
February 3, 1914
Creator:
Carl, Reinhold Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Flue.
Patent for the improvement of combination flue to be more inexpensive and for the parts to be more readily assembled and properly supported.
Date:
January 20, 1920
Creator:
Carl, Reinhold Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Elbert D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an improved car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1887
Creator:
Young, James D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for improved replacers for derailed railroad cars, complete with illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Duval, Allen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat-Propeller.
Patent for a boat propeller, which is inexpensive and adaptable to small boats. The propeller can go forwards or backwards and use multiple oars.
Date:
February 5, 1901
Creator:
Caffey, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues
Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Caffey, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History