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Expansion Double-Shovel Corn And Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new machine for planting corn or cotton that can be "adapted for use as a plow or cultivator" (lines 60-61), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 1, 1887
Creator:
Draper, Richard Edward.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Arm.
Patent for an improvement to adjusting rifle barrels and holding those adjustments in place. Includes illustrations.
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Alston, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Packing Case.
Patent for a new and improved folding packing-case. This design "consists in the construction of a folding packing-case with a bottom tray adapted to receive the inner detachable partitions of the case when it is folded up for transportation, and with a lid formed with flanges adapted to overlap and inclose and thus protect the edges of the sides and ends of the case and tray when folded down, so that it will the more securely withstand rough handling in shipment, and in providing ventilating-apertures in the sides of the case, to be left open or closed at pleasure" (lines 19-30).
Date:
March 20, 1883
Creator:
Van Hutton, William B.
System:
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Fluid Burner Fire Log.
Patent for a new and improved fluid-burner fire-log. This design consists "in combination, a perforated tubular body, metallic removable heads, a fluid-supplying tube, a perforated air-induction distributing tie-tube provided with screw threads and nuts on its ends outside the heads, and a comminuted or disintegrated fire-proof filling surrounding the perforated portion of the air-tube and occupying the chamber of the body" (lines 25-32).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
White, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Trap.
Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
Date:
March 26, 1889
Creator:
Green, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pistol Game Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved pistol game. This design "consists of a pistol device of novel construction, in combination with a horizontal revolving table having stalls for reception of a ball, the said pistol device being to drop the ball into the table while revolving for playing a game in which the score of the game is to be counted by the number of the stall into which the ball chances to fall" (lines 8-15).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Mestier, John Reni
System:
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Harness Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved harness buckle. This design calls for a central cross-bar, upon which the frame rests, with fold-able arms that form a loop beneath the side-bars with the assistance of metal pins (lines 57-62). This design eliminates the need for stitching the strap being buckled.
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Garrett, Charles William
System:
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Piano-Forte Tuning-Pin Lock.
Patent for a new and improved lock for forte-piano tuning-pins. This design consists "of an elongated or oblong metal plate provided with a slot in a part of its length and having one of its faces roughened into serrations . . . which, together with . . . correspondingly-toothed hooks bolted to said plate, form a clamp to bind two or more tuning-pins of a piano together, to prevent them from turning as a set or independently" (lines 16-25).
Date:
March 2, 1880
Creator:
Norcross, Levi W.
System:
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Railroad Nut-Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that is used to fix railroad tracks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Forbes, Alston J.
System:
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Retort Vaporizer and Superheater
Patent for improvements for vaporizers "of simple and highly efficient means for thoroughly and effectively superheating the vapor of water and oil" (lines 13-15).
Date:
March 26, 1889
Creator:
Biddison, Stella D.
System:
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Ratchet Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved ratchet wrench. This design "relates to improvements in ratchet-wrenches wherein a handle carrying a rotating head having jaws to grasp a nut is provided with pivoted pawls, so that by oscillating the handle the pawls serve to rotate the head and screw or unscrew the nut, bolt, or other device" (lines 8-14).
Date:
March 25, 1884
Creator:
Osborn, Adelbert E.
System:
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Rack and Spool for Holding Rope Coils.
Patent for a new and improved rack for spools of rope. This design "consists in a particular construction of frame adapted for supporting spools of different lengths, as well as an improved construction of spool for expanding and holding the coil of rope in the center of the reel while being used, and improved hangers for the wheels, whereby the latter may be arranged within the frame to accommodate the different sizes of coils now manufactured" (lines 14-23).
Date:
March 29, 1881
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
System:
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Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new and improved post hole digger. This design has "the combination of the head, consisting of a ring having vertical dove-tailed recesses to receive the blades or cutters, and provided with converging arms uniting so as to form a shank" (lines 61-65). The result is "a convenient, serviceable, and inexpensive tool" (lines 12-13).
Date:
March 27, 1883
Creator:
Switzer, William C.
System:
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Portable Fan and Operating Machinery for Same.
Patent for a new and improved fan. This design "is fluted or corrugated . . . its lines of corrugation radiating from a common point. By this peculiar formation [it is] enabled to concentrate the surrounding air during its movement, and direct and carry it in a body back and forth . . . [and a] heavy bead or bar follows the zigzag or corrugated outline of the bottom of the fan, and serves as a weight to keep it tending downward toward a position of rest. . . . The frame carrying the fan is supported upon standards provided with broad footings . . . by which the fan may be readily moved" (lines 16-35).
Date:
March 16, 1886
Creator:
McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry A.
System:
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Portable Flour and Meal Bin.
Patent for a new and improved bin for flour and meal. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the casing having compartments provided with contracted curved bottoms, the spouts in said bottoms, the spirally-grooved shafts in said spouts, the chambers the bottoms of which are hinged to the casing and provided with the sieves, and the stirrers on the ends of the shafts and within the hinged chambers" (lines 81-89).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Cox, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "the combination of the vertical standards bent forward at their upper ends and provided with dovetailed projections, the track-bar beveled toward the upper edge and provided with dovetailed notches to receive the projections whereby the said bar may be removed from the standards, the folding braces between the standards, the roller-bar having the rollers to run on the track-bar, and the frame connected to the roller-bar by the suspending-cords" (lines 38-49).
Date:
March 20, 1888
Creator:
Raines, Burress Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Netting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito netting frame. This design "consists of a mosquito-netting frame formed of two longitudinal rods removably fastened to uprights attached to the bedposts, and held by cords or wires passing from the outer ends of each of said longitudinal rods to the top of each upright. A transverse rod or bar is removably attached to the outer ends of said longitudinal bars or rods. . . . [The design] is simple in construction, light, durable, and convenient" (lines 9-18).
Date:
March 8, 1881
Creator:
Bailey, Alfred H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Connection.
Patent for a new and improved pipe connection. This design has for its object "to provide a new and improved pipe connection which permits of swinging the several connected pipe-sections at angles to each other. The invention consists of two pipe-heads fastened together and turning on a spring-bolt, and of a packing placed between the said pipe-heads to prevent leakage" (lines 8-15).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Jones, William E. & Winniatt, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Stuffing Machine
Patent "to provide simple means whereby the dimensions of the packing-box, as well as the spout, may be readily increased or diminished, either vertically or laterally, to enable the operator to stuff mattresses of varying sizes, whereby the dimensions of the packing-box and spout shall be at all times varied in the same relative proportions" (lines 12-20).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Stephenson, Edwin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pendant for Stem-Winding Watches.
Patent for a "pendant for a watch which can be turned in every direction and can be screwed into the watch-case" (lines 8-10), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1880
Creator:
Rossetti, John Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peach Stoner.
Patent for a new and improved peach pitter. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the main frame having the part rising from its base, the yielding holding-blades having their upper edges beveled and formed as cutters and overlapping at their side edges . . . the plunger having its lower end recessed and provided with an annular cutting-edge, the crescent-shaped cutting blades secured to said plunger above its cutting point, from their convex edges forming cutters, the operating-lever, and pitman connecting the same with the upper end of the plunger" (lines 24-36).
Date:
March 12, 1889
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus.
Patent for a game device, designed for any number of players and in a bowling alley setting or similar. Included are illustrations of the device and instructions for building the device and how to play the game.
Date:
March 30, 1880
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the revolving harrow-teeth and prong-wheels, of the centrally-hinged vibratory frame, carrying drag-hook teeth . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the harrow-frame . . . carrying the hook-teeth, of the pulley, chain, and lever" (lines 62-70).
Date:
March 20, 1883
Creator:
Lewis, Charles Patton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty
Patent for new and useful Improvement in Jetties in which wood-work shall be protected agains teredo.
Date:
March 31, 1885
Creator:
Hayatt, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History