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Improvement in Baling Presses.
Patent for improvements to "the construction and combination of the levers, rack-bars, and pawls with each other, and with the follower and baling-box" (lines 15-17).
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Stroud, Bryant F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills
Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.
Date:
May 9, 1871
Creator:
Hensley, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bedsteads.
Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.
Date:
August 8, 1871
Creator:
Baldwin, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hand-Cultivators.
Patent for "hand-cultivators; and the novelty consists in the improved construction and arrangement of the stock, tongue, and plows; and in the application to the end of the tongue of a shoulder-strap to assist in working the implement." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1872
Creator:
Jones, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers and Cultivators
Patent for a improved version of the cotton-chopper, used for the cultivation of cotton. This is a new arrangement of part of the cotton-chopper as it fits in with the complete machine.
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Harcrow, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller Shaft Bearing.
Patent for a new and improved propeller-shaft bearing. This design consists, "with the horizontal propeller-shaft, of the single central stationary thrust-block through which the shaft snugly extends, the opposite ends of said block being each flattened and provided with a circular groove concentric with the shaft, the pair of collars rigidly secured to the shaft at the opposite ends of said central block, the inner ends of said collars each having a groove corresponding with the grooves in the block, and series of balls confined and running in each set of grooves and between the collars and block" (lines 5-17).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
Gaffield, William Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Bagasse-Furnaces.
Patent for improvements in Bagasse Burners or Furnaces.
Date:
April 17, 1878
Creator:
Littlejohn, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses. It consists of movable followers and a sliding drum that has a ratchet secured to a clutch and a shaft. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1879
Creator:
Smithson, Richard T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Baling-Presses
Patent for improvement to the construction of a baling press with descriptions and illustrations attached.
Date:
August 12, 1879
Creator:
Hall, Marcus C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harmony Attachments for Piano-Fortes.
Patent for, "an attachment for piano-fortes, whereby the musician may play the melody upon an instrument like the violin with his hands in the usual manner, and the accompaniment or harmony by operating the attachment with his feet."
Date:
November 11, 1879
Creator:
Radinsky, Gustav A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spur Attachment For Stirrups
Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Poorter, Charles Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing for Doors and Like Closures.
Patent for new packing for closures for air-tight and temperature-regulating containers (i.e. refrigerators), with illustrations included.
Date:
March 19, 1907
Creator:
Carter, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate
Patent for grate that are applied to the fire box of a boiler.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Brown, Sidney E. & Kain, Harry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mantel
Patent for an invention that can be applied to a mantel, consisting "essentially, of a flexible screen, guard, or shield adapted to wind upon a roller, the latter being housed in the space formed between the shelf off the mantel and the headboard" (lines 22-25). It is intended to prevent fire from getting into the from from the fire, control heat radiation, and provide a closure for the fireplace when it is not in use.
Date:
September 30, 1899
Creator:
Cox, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mantel.
Patent for fireplace guards that connect to mantels, which can be folded out of sight, or rolled out to prevent sparks or closing off the fireplace when not in use.
Date:
March 7, 1899
Creator:
Cox, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent to improve the construction of the mold-board of the plow described in Letters Patent No. 163,352, "to make it more effective in preventing the black lands of Texas and other sticky and waxy soils from adhering to it, and to enable a proper furrow to be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1876
Creator:
Bell, Francis R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ladder
Patent for ladders, more particularly to one adapted for use in connection with freight-cars. (lines 9-11) Design to prevent the grab-irons from becoming disconnected from the rails. (lines 27-29)
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer
Patent for a spirometer. Illustartion included.
Date:
August 16, 1904
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester
Patent for "improvements whereby the sparks from a locomotive will be passed directly from the flues through the stack and the outer air will be admitted, which will keep the cinders in motion and force them through fine perforations and against the hard surfaces until they are thoroughly pulverized and all the fire therein is extinguished, and which .will thereby prevent the danger to combustible products by fire thrown from an engine and which will not in any way decrease or interfere with the efficient work of the locomotive" (lines 17-29).
Date:
June 28, 1892
Creator:
Curran, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for a simple and durable spark arrester for locomotives that has a minimum number of parts and "which will remove arrested sparks to the fire box of the locomotive and will prevent live sparks being thrown out by the locomotive and thereby endanger property adjoining the railroad tracks" (lines 19-23).
Date:
March 20, 1894
Creator:
O'Donnell, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer
Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Soft Peanut Candy
Patent for a soft peanut candy recipe with ingredients listed.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Green, Little J. & Heyn, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protector for Stay-Bolts.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protectors for stay bolts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1898
Creator:
Coins, Francis. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for the improvement and simplification of disk plows. It consists of improvements to interconnection of beam, plow, wheels and axle in their positioning and securing to allow for adjustments of these parts; also includes scrapers for plow-disks. Illustrations of a possible implementation are included.
Date:
March 18, 1902
Creator:
Schofield, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History