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Plaiting-Machine.
Patent for "a machine upon which a dress-skirt or similar article may be easily placed and which is adapted to secure the plaits or folds in the skirts and hold them so that they may be conveniently ironed." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1891
Creator:
Olson, Alfred
System:
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Draw Bar for Locomotives.
Patent for a new and improved draw-bar for locomotives. This design consists, "with the frame of the locomotive and pilot mounted thereon, of the draw-bar connected to the frame, devices for locking and holding the draw-bar on the pilot, and a counter-weight for automatically elevating the draw-bar when released" (lines 97-102).
Date:
August 16, 1892
Creator:
Heidelberg, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger that is more effective than other augers and can be constructed to make different sized holes. It is operated by moving two blades back and forth.
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Smith, Wiston Allin
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to produce . . . cultivators [that] can be adjusted laterally in relation to each other and turned at any desirable angle, and in which the frame and the beam can be made to stand at any desired angle to each other" (lines 17-23). It consists in "a semicircular frame, two vertical plates secured to the ends of the said frame and having their upper edges serrated, blocks placed between the plates, the plates, bolts for clamping them to opposite edges of the vertical plates, and the cultivators which pass through the plates and the beam" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ford, John Owen
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1891
Creator:
Williams, William Edwin
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Ward, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a mechanism that presses cotton, wool, hemp, hay, or other similar substances that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 451,846). This patent improves on the previous patent by improving the construction of the press.
Date:
January 16, 1894
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
System:
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Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press with "new and useful roller-compresses for making bales of cotton into a cylindrical or roll-form, and also having simple and efficient mechanism for continuously forming a bale all the time the compress is in operation, which result has heretofore been impossible in presses of that character employing only one pair of compressing-rolls" (lines 9-17).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
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Sash - Lock
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Sash Locks to "provide a device of this character whereby the sash will be automatically locked in all its adjusted positions, thereby dispensing with the employment of sash cords and weights (line 13-17).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Crocker, Lauren A.
System:
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Sash Fastener
Patent for a new and useful Sash holder and lock to "provide a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may be applied to either the upper or lower sashes of windows in general use at the present time without materially injuring them and without requiring the aid of a skilled mechanic" (line 10 - 15).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Tuitte, Frank
System:
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Shirt Bosom.
Patent for a new and improved shirt bosom. This design "is to provide an improved 'dickey' adapted to be worn either with or without an ordinary shirt" (lines 9-11). It consists in a "dickey, the same comprising a bosom divided down its center, a box-plait at the inner edge of each section of the divided bosom, said plaits registering with each other and the two faces of the bosom being finished alike, cross-straps at the lower ends of the sections, a tab depending from each strap, a flap between said tabs, and a collar-band connected to the upper ends of both sections" (lines 66-75).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Mistrot, Felix E.
System:
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Seed-Planter.
Patent for a durable, simply constructed, and inexpensive seed-planter. It has a main frame, adjustable supporting-wheels, diagonal parallel bars, disk-beams with "angular front ends pivoted in brackets on the main frame" (lines 48-49), and "disks supported by stub-shafts projecting from the spindle-supporting bar" (lines 49-51).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Leissler, John C.
System:
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Sash Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sash-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the wire having an inclined portion and offsets . . . of the plate separate therefrom and having a vertical portion adapted to be secured to a window-frame, a horizontal portion to which the upper end of the wire is secured, a depending portion, and a roller free to ride upon the inclined portion of the wire and formed with a hub and rubber bands, one upon each end of the hub and sprung into grooves in the hub" (lines 84-94).
Date:
September 16, 1890
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
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Sash Balance
Patent for a sash balance in a window frame.
Date:
August 16, 1892
Creator:
Cayce, Henry P.
System:
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Nozzle.
Patent for a hose nozzle with increased capacity and efficiency. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1897
Creator:
Adams, Don B.
System:
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Metallic Roof.
Patent for a metallic roof that has "an improved means for securing the adjoining edges of the metallic strips together, whereby a tight water proof joint is produced and the metal strips securely attached to the sheathing of the roof" (lines 15-20).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head-Rest.
Patent for "an improved head rest which can be easily attached to a car seat without injuring or marring the wood work or upholstering thereof, and which will be compact in structure, light in weight and cheap and durable in general construction, and readily adjustable in height, and angle of inclination" (lines 14-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Wesson, Miley B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Rack.
Patent for a hay-rack meant to "provide an improved device for holding or clamping hay within reach of livestock, and which while not impairing the feeding of the stock will prevent them from pulling the hay down beneath their feet" (lines 14-19).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Erskine, William James
System:
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Design for a Churn-Frame.
Design patent for a churn frame.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
O'Marrow, Mattie
System:
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Cuspidor.
Patent for a simple cupsidor that attaches to the floor of railway cars and other places and can be easily cleaned. They are designed to be installed in a line and connected so they can be opened and cleaned at the same time. A valve and a tube hold and empty the contents of the cupsidor.
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Simmons, David Pitman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calculating - Machine
Patent for an improvements in calculating machines. This invention "relates to machines for making rapid and accurate calculations" (line 8-9).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Minnis, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers machine as the attachment to cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Richter, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "of a draw-head, a depending hook pivotally mounted therein, a transverse pin arranged on the bottom of the mouth of the draw-head and provided intermediate its ends with a notch to permit the passage of the lower end of the hook, a spring for holding the notch away from the hook, and means for sliding the pin to bring the notch opposite the hook" (lines 83-91).
Date:
August 16, 1892
Creator:
Davis, William Haywood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for "a churn dasher to which a rotary movement shall be imparted by the resistance offered by the fluid to the dasher when the latter is given a vertical reciprocating movement in the ordinary manner, the rotary movement being constantly in one direction, irrespective of the direction of the vertical reciprocating movement" (lines 13-21).
Date:
May 16, 1893
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
System:
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