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Insect-Poison Distributor
Patent for "new and useful improvements in devices for sprinkling potato-vines and the like with powder - such as paris-green" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Heaton, Lorenzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer.
Patent for a new and improved pest control device. This design "consist[s] of the flexible air-supply funnel, having end-supporting and mouth-distending rim, terminating in vertical bottom legs or branches, the gas generator, the air-inlet tube having the valve, and the rigid gas-discharge tube" (lines 22-28).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Grafton, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator.
Patent for an insulator for water pipes that conducts away electric current to be utilized elsewhere.
Date:
December 25, 1917
Creator:
Stone, Oscar Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Logging-Truck.
Patent for a logging-truck that is a "simple and convenient apparatus which is operated by a team to raise the logs from the ground, and which thus obviates the necessity of using a hand windlass as is usually done" (lines 14-18). This is used in countries where it does not snow often.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Brough, William, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella
Patent for an umbrella. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Gra, Hernando B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Domschke, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive thill-coupling that "can be conveniently applied to any ordinary vehicle, which is arranged in such a way that rattling is positively prevented, and which, when the thills are dropped, permits them to be freely lifted from the coupling; also to a modified form of the device designed to prevent rattling only" (lines 12-18).
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Parker, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of artificial stone.
Patent for the manufacture of artificial stone using gravel, sand, water, cement, lamp-black, isinglass and sesquioxide of iron.
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Gallup, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for an adjustable plow attachment that is placed onto a plow blade and sweeps aside earth while "forming a load-bearing surface." (p. 1)
Date:
December 25, 1900
Creator:
Bracewell, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Hook
Patent for hame hook. This invention couples traces to the hames in the harness. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Brister, William T. & Galle, Fritz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweat Leather for Riding Saddles.
Patent for a new and improved sweat-leather for saddles. This design "has for its object to construct sweat-leathers which shall be absolutely impervious to the sweat and moisture exuding from the animal, and thus serve to protect the rider's clothes. Sweat-pads, as ordinarily constructed of leather, are liable to be permeated with moisture, by which their efficiency as protectors is not only impaired, but they are liable to curl up . . . To avoid this . . . [the] improved sweat-pads [have] linings of India-rubber" (lines 20-31).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Harriss, James Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for an improved gate-latch for swinging gates that is especially simple, economic, and efficient.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Wilson, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Emergency-Tire.
Patent for a spare automobile tire with improvements to the design which allow it be easily applied on the road in case of emergency.
Date:
December 25, 1917
Creator:
Poe, James G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post
Patent for a fence post for use with line wires. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Bury, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire-kindler. This design is for "[a] fire-kindling torch consisting of two perforated sections, each having an exterior longitudinal ridge, and angular side flanges, and provided at one end with lugs which bear flatly against each other, a pivot-pin passing transversely through the lugs to permanently connect the sections and form a pintle on which they can turn, and a handle connecting the other ends of the sections together, said sections having an interposed filling of mineral wool" (lines 1-11).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Osborn, Adelbert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate for Railway Tracks.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shaft crossing a railway-track and provided with weighted depending ends, with rollers connected eccentrically to said ends, a gate connected to said shaft, and lever and bar apparatus for operating said weighted ends from the vicinity of the rails" (lines 41-47).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter
Patent for a seed planter so that the distances between seeds can be changed from equidistant to a continuous row and vice versa and so that it can be adapted to sew both seeds and grains.
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Leamon, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Removable Can Top.
Patent for a new and improved removable lid for cans. This design "consists of a can top or protector to be fitted over the top of the can which has had one of its heads cut out in such a manner that the contents of the can can be easily and conveniently removed and, should it be desired, the life and usefulness of the can prolonged at a trifling expense" (lines 24-30).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Grainger, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows by employing moldboards on both left and right side of the plow; with a shoe or land slide fixed to the plow-beam extension. Then use a V-clamp to secure the plow-handles and a bracket to secure the moldboards and plow-point. This construction will allow free movement of the plow-point and moldboard up and down or vertically without lifting the shoe from the furrow. Illustration is included.
Date:
December 25, 1900
Creator:
Morrison, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Frog.
Patent for "a frog for crossing rails at switches or railway-crossings" (lines 8-9).
Date:
December 25, 1900
Creator:
Barry, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pyrometer.
Patent for improvement in pyrometers for more accurate and reliable use in cooking stoves.
Date:
December 25, 1900
Creator:
Von Koehring, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle
Patent for non refillable bottle. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Tull, Francis Scholais
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Clock
Patent for an electric clock. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Iversen, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History