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Plow.
Patent for an improved plow which is attached in the usual manner to the standard of a suitable beam, when the device is used for cultivating young crops, the fender is place in position and will serve to prevent the loose, dirt from tumbling over upon the growing plants. When the plants grew larger, the fender can be removed and a portion of the loose soil will thus be permitted to cover. (Lines 65-73) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Haynes, Leonard Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Fender
Patent for a plow fender that would be more gentle with new or fragile plants by moving them to the side, and would be easily adaptable to all kinds of plows while also being cost efficient to install and durable.
Date:
January 17, 1893
Creator:
Ellington, Alvey Marcellous
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pot-Rack.
Patent for a pot-rack which can hold a scalding-crate, cooking-pan, or canning-machine in a boiler at any depth of one's choice, including illustrations. The pot-rack is simple in design, durable, and inexpensively manufactured.
Date:
February 13, 1906
Creator:
Cloninger, Ellie B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a planter in which "the seed-dropping mechanism is adjustable to suit the nature of the seed to be planted and to drop the same closer together or farther apart, as desired." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1897
Creator:
Rausheck, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Crow, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper. The text describes the construction of the machine and explains how it is different from current cotton choppers.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Forrest, Bedford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Signal Valve for Boilers.
Patent for a new and improved signal valve for boilers. This design "consists in the combination, with a check-valve, of the ordinary construction, which is adapted to operate in connection with an inspirator, injector, or jet-pump, such as are commonly employed for feeding steam-boilers, of a signal-valve which is located above the check-valve, and which signal-valve, when the check-valve ceases to operate, is caused to open by the backward pressure of the steam from the boiler, permitting the escape of said steam, and thereby indicating that the feeder is not operating" (lines 14-26).
Date:
February 24, 1885
Creator:
McLane, Reed Atchinson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Mill Dog.
Patent for a new and improved saw mill dog. This design "is an improvement in the class of dogging apparatus which is affixed to one of the knees of a head-block of the log-carriage" (lines 8-11). The improvement consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, specifically "the notched dog and adjustable slotted drop-catch with the slotted moveable dog-bar and base-stand" (lines 77-79).
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Wickham, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress-Chart.
Patent for dress-chart, with illustrations. The purpose of this dress-chart relating to "pattern charts for cutting any and all garments" regardless of man, woman, or child (lines 9-11).
Date:
August 25, 1885
Creator:
Northen, Mary Eva
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling, including illustrations. "This invention relates to an improvement to car coupling, having for its object to effect the coupling of cars with facility and without danger to the operator, the coupling operation being performed automatically, and without requiring the passing of the operator between the cars" (lines 10-15).
Date:
November 7, 1882
Creator:
Nelson, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Picker.
Patent for an inexpensive, efficient, and durable fruit-picker that picks small fruit and does not bruise them. The picker is easily operated.
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Armstrong, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a device by which cotton can be easily, quickly and accurately chopped, "leaving cotton stands the distance apart for future cultivation and to insure the most rapid and satisfactory growth," (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Henderson, Neely Trimmier & Smith, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine.
Patent for a steam-engine that has "no dead-center" (lines 15-16), and "a volume of one full port will always be exerted on a piston" (lines 18-19). "The full power of the steam will be applied when the crank is on the quarter and there is the greatest leverage in favor of the engine" (lines 21-24). Steam supply is regulated automatically and has a shutoff system in case anything breaks.
Date:
November 10, 1896
Creator:
Barton, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Operating Mechanism.
Patent for a churn operating mechanism, which can be attached to a wall.
Date:
February 14, 1911
Creator:
Wiley, Alvin Herbert; Lathem, Diah Walter & Lathem, Mariand Wiendfield
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Oden, Joshua K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a lever pivoted in the front of the top of the draw-head and provided at its outer end with an aperture, through which the coupling-pin is passed into the aperture in the draw-head, below which lever another lever is pivoted, hanging vertically across the front-opening of the draw-head, and provided at the upper part of its inner edge with a projection, so that when the coupling-link pushes the lower lever inward the upper lever and the pin are raised, and drop as soon as the link has passed into the draw-head" (lines 10-21).
Date:
January 31, 1882
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Toller.
Patent for a simple device that's placed in a grinding mill to automatically extract and regulate the amount of grain being withdrawn.
Date:
October 25, 1921
Creator:
Perkins, Thomas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Everett, Edgar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Wiley, Alvin Herbert & Banger, John Edward Armenious
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a wire clothes pin that is attached to the clothesline and is easily opened or closed to attach or remove clothes.
Date:
March 19, 1907
Creator:
Burleson, Pleasant Wright
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box-Car-Door Fastener
Patent for a box car door fastener.
Date:
March 19, 1912
Creator:
Hooton, Pinkie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupler.
Patent for a new and improver coupler for railroad cars. This design "consists, first, in a transversely-arranged bar supported by suitable hangers secured to the end of the car a suitable distance above the draw-bar, each end of said transverse bar being provided with hand-wheels having a notch on their outer periphery, with which engage weighed pawls suitably pivoted to the side of the car; secondly, in an arm extending from said transverse bar for supporting the link" (lines 22-31).
Date:
July 12, 1881
Creator:
Farnam, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to a car-coupling constructed with draw-heads having stationary hooks and recesses in their sides, and provided with pivoted hooks held in place by springs, and provided with a trip plate and lever, and with chains and a lever, whereby the cars will couple themselves when run together, can be readily uncoupled, will uncouple themselves when thrown from the track, and can be prevented from coupling when run together" (lines 23-32).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design's "objects are, first, to couple cars of various altitudes; second, to couple the cars automatically; third, to uncouple from the top or side of the car; [and] fourth, to dispense with pins" (lines 16-20). It consists in a "draw-head [that] is provided with an elastic cover having a link-lifting arm secured thereto, a lever for oscillating said cover, performing the duplex function of disengaging the link and permitting its egress, a sloping projection from the base of said draw-head engaging the link on contact, and the bent link" (lines 51-58).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Burns, John Calvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History