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Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design consists in "[a] nut-lock key having a body or wedge portion and a head, and having such head provided at its inner edge with flanges or extensions, the inner edges of the flanges or extensions being separated from the body" (lines 70-74).
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Chute
Patent for Stock-Chute. "The object of my invention is to supply railroads with a cattle-chute which not only require less work and fewer laborers to operate it, but will afford a perfectly safe means of transferring stock without liability of injury to the stock during the act of transfer." (lines 56-62) With Illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Hess, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor
Patent for "a device which may be used for pumping, sawing, drilling, and other analogous purposes, which will be effective in its operation, and which will not be liable to get out of order, and the parts of which will not be liable to get out of alignment with each other" (lines 24-31).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers.
Patent for new and improved trousers. This design "relates to an improvement in pants; and it consists in a pants-leg having a recess or notch cut in its lower rear edge, so as to prevent it from coming in contact with the ground" (lines 12-16).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Sevier, Moses Nimrod
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "is to produce a nut-lock which will require a minimum number of parts to adjust, will require no other tools than a wrench, which will stay where adjusted in spite of any amount of pounding or concussion, and which, when desired, may be removed without difficulty. To this end [the] invention consists in a nut provided with a serrated face and a washer having sharp spring-lips engaging with the serrations. [The] invention also consists in a peculiarly-constructed washer for locking the nut" (lines 18-30).
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Parks, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Table.
Patent for a new and improved table. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the table and the table-legs having the inner outer corners cut away . . . of the seat having grooves or slots in its ends, and the connecting bars having one end pivotally attached to said legs and having the opposite ends fitted in said grooves or slots" (lines 65-71).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
McDaniel, Hampton C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Pitching and Stacking Machine.
Patent for improvement to hay pitching and stacking machines "to provide a device for pitching and stacking hay, the parts of which can be easily and quickly taken apart or adjusted, and which may be employed in making stacks of hay or straw" (lines 18-22).
Date:
February 1, 1887
Creator:
Donald, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Sharpening Machine
Patent for improvements of gin saw sharpening machines.
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
Behan, William & Friensehner, Paul
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of baling presses for compressing hay for baling.
Date:
July 12, 1887
Creator:
McNeill, Charles DeWitt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Operating Windmill Pumps.
Patent for new and improved gearing for windmill pumps. This design has for its object "to raise water from wells by suitable mechanism connected with a fan, from which the power is communicated to the pump through said mechanism" (lines 13-16).
Date:
September 6, 1887
Creator:
Jordan, John E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination, with the side walls, of the stop-blocks comprising the places secured in recesses in the same, and the offsets formed integrally with the said plates, the plunger having recesses in its sides which engage said offsets, the operating-lever, and the pitman connecting the latter to the plunger" (lines 93-100).
Date:
September 13, 1887
Creator:
Bryant, William Hodges
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved hoeing machine. This design is "first, to provide a joint between the handle and the gage-wheel, and to insure such arrangement of parts as will enable the operator, by raising and lowering one hand, to give the blade an oscillating motion or swing it from right to left with the greatest ease, and without tipping or turning the wheel or changing too much the position of the blade in respect to the surface of the ground; second, to provide a double gage-wheel that will have all the advantages of a leaning gage-wheel and will also stand firmly by itself" (lines 14-26).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hopple.
Patent for a new and improved hopple. This design consists in the combination of the surcingle, the bands connected to the bottom thereof, the supporting straps secured to one of said bands, and the knee-bands constructed of stiff leather in semi-cylindrical form, attached to said straps and having the securing-straps" (lines 37-42).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Burris, John Albert Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hay presses.
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Flato, Friderich W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for thills. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the clip having the ears provided with the openings of the draft-iron having the eye at its inner end adapted to be inserted between the ears of the clip and having the transverse central opening" (lines 94-98). Further, it has "the coupling-bolt having the inclined shoulder and the nut provided with the [other] inclined shoulder and the sleeves having the inclined inner ends adapted to enter the inclines of the draft-iron and provided at their outer ends with the inclined recesses" (lines 1-7).
Date:
March 1, 1887
Creator:
Findley, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove Pipe Damper.
Patent for a new and improved stove-pipe damper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a damper-blade with a spindle rigidly attached thereto and having at one end a cylindrical pivot projecting beyond the periphery of the blade, and at the opposite end a screw projecting beyond said periphery, of a supporting-ring in which the projecting ends of said spindle are journaled, the bearing of the cylindrical end of said spindle being in an inwardly-bent portion of said supporting-ring" (lines 50-59).
Date:
April 19, 1887
Creator:
Lederle, Edward Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a new and improved swing. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the two folding frames, provided with jointed braces, of the horizontal cross-bars secured to said frames, the swinging arms pivoted to said bars and also to the car, cross-bars secured to these arms, [and] the curved levers" (lines 95-100). Said curved levers are hinged to "the cross-bars, [and] the crossed ropes or chains [are] connecting the short arms of said levers to the cross-bars, and the pull-cords [are] attached to the long arms of said levers and [are] extended to the seats of the said car" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Rigby, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for an automatically opening and closing gate including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Philpott, Horatio V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Measurer and Tally
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of grain measurers and registers.
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
King, Benjamin Cicero & Boon, George Hamilton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate having a cross-bar, and mechanism . . . for operating the cross-bar and moving it vertically, the weighted levers, and the standards supporting the levers, of the latch-levers pivoted between their ends to the weighted levers and having their front ends engaged by the cross-bar, and the stops for engaging the rear ends of the latch-levers and holding the gate closed" (lines 15-24).
Date:
November 1, 1887
Creator:
Terry, Hiram
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists in "the rings loosely suspended on opposite sides of a central line, levers extended past such central line, and having their inner ends engaged with the rings on the opposite sides of the center from the handle ends, and partition-plates interposed between such levers and the rings past which they are extended" (lines 79-86).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Charleville, George William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Fare-Box.
Patent for device "to improve the illumination and increase the efficiency and subserviency of street-care fare-boxes. To these ends the source of light is located in the interior of the box, instead of being placed in a separate chamber at the outside of the box, as is now done, and electrical agency is utilized to produce the light and also to notify the driver that a passenger requires change and when a fair has been deposited in the box" (lines 8-17).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Crowdus, Walter A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Horometer.
Patent for a new and improved electrical horometer. This design consists, in addition to a switch-board with electric circuit terminals, "of a bell-crank lever pivoted to the switch-board and making the connection between said terminals, said lever having at one end a handle and at the other end a detent engaging with the ratchet-wheel when the circuit is opened, the said wheel being mounted upon the extended portion of one of the shafts of a clock or other suitable registering mechanism" (lines 1-8).
Date:
November 29, 1887
Creator:
Hammond, Benjamin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History