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Hopple for Horses.
Patent for a new and improved hopple for horses. This design "consists in the combination of two curved or bent pieces which are to go around the horses ankles . . . [each with] three links and a ring . . . allow[ing] the horse to walk slowly about, permitting [it] to graze at leisure, and enabling [it] to be easily caught when desired" (lines 14-34).
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Cottle, Julius O. & Ivie, Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Cotton-Gin Feeders.
Patent for device that regulates the feed of a cotton gin using the pressure of the cotton in the gin's roll-box.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Forbes, Lycurgus D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide hand-cultivators constructed in such a manner as to cut up and destroy grass and weeds without throwing the soil around and covering small plants, and without breaking the soil away from around the plants" (lines 16-21).
Date:
November 18, 1884
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
System:
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Soil Pulverizer.
Patent for a new and improved soil pulverizer. This design consists in "the combination of rotating blades on a shaft adjustable forward and backward, the driving wheel shaft, the intermediate operating mechanism, and the two transverse shafts . . . the driving-wheels, the multiplying gear-wheels, the two shafts, blades, [the] shaft adjustable forward and backward by means of a lever, frame having recesses for journal-boxes, the lugs on the latter, and the connecting rod" (lines 84-95).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Rankin, John Dake & Knox, William Custis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspenders.
Patent for new and improved suspenders. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive article of this character which will avoid the objections to the present form of suspenders" (lines 10-13). More specifically, it "consists in providing a suspender which will be attached on each side by a button or stud to the shirt near the apex of the shoulder, close to the collar-band, then bringing the ends together under the arms, and then about half-way between the arms and the top of the pantaloons, uniting the ends in a buckle of any suitable design" (lines 36-41).
Date:
December 16, 1884
Creator:
Stuart, John Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design has for its object, "first, to provide a gate that the rider or driver can open or shut without dismounting; second, one that cannot be left accidentally open, so as to admit stock to pass through an inclosure; and third, one that the vehicle or horse[-rider] passes over, and one that the wind does not affect" (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 16, 1884
Creator:
Cowan, Elias
System:
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Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates that are balanced by a weight and opened in either direction by ropes operating in conjunction with circular inclined tracks and rollers; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a gate that may be readily opened and closed by a person seated in a vehicle" (lines 7-14).
Date:
December 30, 1884
Creator:
Drake, Edwin L.
System:
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Escapement for Torsion Pendulums.
Patent for a new and improved escapement for torsion pendulums. This design "consists in one or two weighted levers acting in conjunction with an escape-wheel and a spindle, which levers are used as a medium to carry force from the train of a clock to the pendulum" (lines 12-16).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Stahlberg, Charles
System:
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Eraser for Blackboards.
Patent for a new and improved blackboard eraser. This design "is composed of a block fashioned out of any suitable material—wood preferred— with a suitable handle, and provided with a base having a bed rounding in shape, provided with a rabbet following its edge, one side of which is beveled and the other plain, the two sides of said rabbet forming an obtuse angle about the entire perimeter of the said block" (lines 15-23).
Date:
August 12, 1884
Creator:
Kempen, Adolph H.
System:
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Fork for Handling Cotton and Other Substances.
Patent for a new and improved pitchfork. This design "relates to a hand-fork for handling cotton in the seed and cotton-seed at the gins, as well as for other useful purposes; and it consists in the novel construction of the teeth and tines or head, together with the means for fastening the teeth to the head" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Shannon, Joel J.
System:
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Fire Escape.
Patent for a new and improved fire escape. This design "relates to that class of fire escapes designed to save life from burning houses or ships; and its object is to provide means whereby a boat or car may be lowered from the side of a vessel, or a car may be raised or lowered to and from the windows of a house" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1884
Creator:
McKinzie, Thomas Duncan
System:
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Refrigerating Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design "consists, essentially, in a series of vessels surrounded or enveloped by fibrous material, dipping into a water-vessel above, and serving to maintain a constant supply of water to the exterior of the vessels through capillary action, the water being caused to pass down in such quantity as to drip from the bottoms of the vessels and collect in a second tank supplying a second series of vessels in the same manner, and finally to collect in a suitable vessel below, intermediate filtering apparatus being provided or not, as required" (lines 9-20).
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Dodge, Frances A.
System:
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Refrigerating Machine.
Patent for improvement of refrigerating machines with detachable top and hinged sides with refrigerant pipes extending longitudinally. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Lee, Charles B.
System:
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Shot Case.
Patent for a new and improved shot case. This design "is to draw given quantities of shot from the case without the necessity of weighing each draft. To this end the invention consists in a case, means for hanging the same, and a charger" (lines 12-16).
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Ellis, Quincy Adams
System:
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Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window frame and sash, of a fastener consisting of stops secured to the frame and formed with beveled ends and a shoulder . . . and a button pivotally secured to the sash and recessed to form a triangular projection, and a finger-piece extension, which latter serves also as a weight to effect an automatic fastening as the window is lowered" (lines 72-80).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Bendy, Napoleon Bonaparte
System:
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Reflector Holder for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector holder for lamps. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp and a lamp-collar, provided with a circumferential flange, of a reflector provided with a keeper, spring-clasp, springing around said collar under the flange at its lower end, and having its free ends bent angularly at their upper ends and secured in said keeper by their tension and slide" (lines 2-9).
Date:
April 22, 1884
Creator:
Williams, Daniel Ruggles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for...a seed planting machine which improves upon an earlier cotton seed planting machine. The improved apparatus can be substituted for corn and other seeds. It may also be utilized for ground cultivation.
Date:
July 15, 1884
Creator:
Pietzsch, Louis; Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Joseph R.
System:
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Seed-Planter
Patent for a new construction of rotary seed planter, with illustrations and description and arrangement of parts.
Date:
September 23, 1884
Creator:
Daniel, Ellison A.
System:
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Reflector Attachment for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Hayes, Elbert N. & Kimball, Walter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oscillating Engine
Patent for improvements to oscillating steam engines, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 26, 1884
Creator:
Gilbert, John Oakley
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved device used to connect rail cars, including illustrations and descriptions of how the new coupling works.
Date:
April 15, 1884
Creator:
Hathaway, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists "[i]n a washing-machine, the combination of the suds-box with an open-bottomed perforated inner casing, smaller in dimensions than the suds-box, and having supports to raise it above the bottom of the suds-box, and a perforated rubber, the upper wash-board or rubber provided with flanges fitting over the inner casing, the intermediate frame and operating lever" (lines 12-20).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Lee, Joseph Green
System:
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Shawl Strap.
Patent for a new and improved shawl strap. This design "relates to shawl, book, and other straps, and has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient article, which can be used with packages of any size, and fastened thereto easily and quickly without applying buckles to the ends of the straps" (lines 8-13).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Tharp, William B.
System:
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Whip.
Patent for a new and improved whip. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the spring-wire core and rubber-compound covering of the body of the whip, and the metallic coupling of the detachable screw whip-handle constructed to form a clasp-knife" (lines 85-89).
Date:
November 11, 1884
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
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