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Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a railroad-tie in which it will “maintain the gage standard when one rail is replaced by another rail having larger cross section than the original rail.” (Lines 21-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 3, 1914
Creator:
Hynds, David H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Park, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame bearing the standards, of caster-wheels provided with shanks, which are vertically journaled in the bars at each side of said frame and in the ends of the cross-bar, the hand-lever which is secured at the forward end of the beam and pivotally connected to the center of said cross-bar and provided with a slot near its free end, the segmental upright, and the spring" (lines 16-25).
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Brown, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for an more efficiently designed cotton chopper.
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Brown, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Weeder
Patent for a cotton chopper and weeder. Illustration included.
Date:
March 29, 1904
Creator:
Stewart, John Hanibal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and Condensing Steam.
Patent for improvement in apparatus for heating water, other liquids, and condensing steam.
Date:
October 1, 1867
Creator:
Phalen, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chairs.
Patent for improvement in chairs, which provides adjustable shoulder supports and back (inclination and height), with intended advantages of better lung capacity and spinal alignment. The chair can be adjusted to fit all sizes of bodies. It is noted that some of the adjustable features could be incorporated into other furnishings such as beds or lounges. An additional feature of the chair is a retracting spring to assist the user in exiting the chair.
Date:
May 9, 1876
Creator:
Barnes, James W.
System:
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Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
Date:
July 24, 1877
Creator:
McCarty, Ezra B. & Heagerty, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Implement
Patent for a cutting tool which can be attached to the bottom of a shoe in order to chop cotton or other plants and pulverize ground. It is a sharp, flat, knife blade that affixes to the shoe with straps across the bridge and toe sections.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Brigance, Alice O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Camp, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Craig, William Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nail-Staple for Barbed Wire.
Patent for a tool meant to assist with attaching fence wire to posts. The nail-staple supports the wire during application to the post, which allows it to be done by a single person, saving time and labor.
Date:
August 30, 1921
Creator:
Washington, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crossover
Patent for cross-overs in railways to prevent collisions of trains traveling on intersecting track ways
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Miller, Sam P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane Mill.
Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Webb, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box and Package Elevating Apparatus
Patent for an elevator for boxes and packages. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Brigance, Alice Osborne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book
Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Rhodes, Samuel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform . . . having a spring buffer and a projection adjacent to and to one side of the buffer . . . the catch pivotally secured below the same and having a series of coupling shoulders on one side, the spring, and the stop arranged to act upon the side of the catch from which the coupling shoulders project" (lines 89-98).
Date:
September 6, 1887
Creator:
Ashford, Thomas Gresham
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the draw-head having the open space at its front end, the longitudinal groove in its side, extending rearward from said space, and the transverse recess at the rear end of said groove, the coupling bar resting in the groove and having a lug at its rear end" (lines 92-98). Said lug is "pivoted in the recess, and the hook at its front end arranged within the open space, and the spring having its rear end secured to the side of the draw-head in rear of the recess" (lines 1-4).
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Keith, John David
System:
The Portal to Texas History